Unraveling peroxynitrite formation in biological systems

…, G Peluffo, MN Alvarez, M Naviliat, A Cayota - Free Radical Biology and …, 2001 - Elsevier
Peroxynitrite promotes oxidative damage and is implicated in the pathophysiology of
various diseases that involve accelerated rates of nitric oxide and superoxide formation. The …

[HTML][HTML] Hints of tRNA-derived small RNAs role in RNA silencing mechanisms

…, F Cabrera-Cabrera, MC Güida, A Cayota - Genes, 2012 - mdpi.com
With the advent of new and improved high-throughput sequencing technologies in the last few
years, a growing number of novel classes of small RNA, other than miRNAs or siRNA, has …

Ribonucleic artefacts: are some extracellular RNA discoveries driven by cell culture medium components?

JP Tosar, A Cayota, E Eitan, MK Halushka… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In a recently published study, Anna Krichevsky and colleagues raise the important question
of whether results of in vitro extracellular RNA (exRNA) studies, including extracellular …

Peroxynitrite inhibits T lymphocyte activation and proliferation by promoting impairment of tyrosine phosphorylation and peroxynitrite-driven apoptotic death

…, G Gualco, G Dighiero, R Radi, AM Cayota - The Journal of …, 1999 - journals.aai.org
Peroxynitrite (ONOO−) is a potent oxidizing and nitrating agent produced by the reaction of
nitric oxide with superoxide. It readily nitrates phenolic compounds such as tyrosine residues …

Assessment of small RNA sorting into different extracellular fractions revealed by high-throughput sequencing of breast cell lines

…, B Bonilla, KW Witwer, A Cayota - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Intercellular communication can be mediated by extracellular small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs).
Circulating sRNAs are being intensively studied for their promising use as minimally …

Electrochemical sandwich immunosensor for determination of exosomes based on surface marker-mediated signal amplification

X Doldán, P Fagúndez, A Cayota, J Laíz… - Analytical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), namely, exosomes and microvesicles, are important mediators
of intercellular communication pathways. Since EVs can be detected in a variety of biofluids …

Extracellular vesicles shed by Trypanosoma cruzi are linked to small RNA pathways, life cycle regulation, and susceptibility to infection of mammalian cells

…, T Souto-Padron, W de Souza, A Cayota - Parasitology …, 2014 - Springer
The protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has a complex life cycle characterized by intracellular
and extracellular forms alternating between invertebrate and mammals. To cope with …

[HTML][HTML] Gene Expression Changes Induced by Trypanosoma cruzi Shed Microvesicles in Mammalian Host Cells: Relevance of tRNA-Derived Halves

…, T Souto-Padrón, W De Souza, A Cayota - BioMed research …, 2014 - hindawi.com
At present, noncoding small RNAs are recognized as key players in novel forms of
posttranscriptional gene regulation in most eukaryotes. However, canonical small RNA pathways …

Mining of public sequencing databases supports a non-dietary origin for putative foreign miRNAs: underestimated effects of contamination in NGS

JP Tosar, C Rovira, H Naya, A Cayota - Rna, 2014 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
The report that exogenous plant miRNAs are able to cross the mammalian gastrointestinal
tract and exert gene-regulation mechanism in mammalian tissues has yielded a lot of …

A population of tRNA-derived small RNAs is actively produced in Trypanosoma cruzi and recruited to specific cytoplasmic granules

…, C Rovira, C Robello, S Goldenberg, A Cayota - Molecular and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Over the last years an expanding family of small RNAs (ie microRNAs, siRNAs and piRNAs)
was recognized as key players in diverse forms of gene silencing and chromatin …