The Melanoma‐Upregulated Long Noncoding RNA SPRY4-IT1 Modulates Apoptosis and Invasion

D Khaitan, ME Dinger, J Mazar, J Crawford, MA Smith… - Cancer research, 2011 - AACR
The identification of cancer-associated long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) and the investigation
of their molecular and biological functions are important to understand the molecular …

[HTML][HTML] The regulation of miRNA-211 expression and its role in melanoma cell invasiveness

J Mazar, K DeYoung, D Khaitan, E Meister… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The immediate molecular mechanisms behind invasive melanoma are poorly understood.
Recent studies implicate microRNAs (miRNAs) as important agents in melanoma and other …

[HTML][HTML] The functional characterization of long noncoding RNA SPRY4-IT1 in human melanoma cells

J Mazar, W Zhao, AM Khalil, B Lee, J Shelley… - Oncotarget, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Expression of the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) SPRY4-IT1 is low in normal human
melanocytes but high in melanoma cells. siRNA knockdown of SPRY4-IT1 blocks melanoma cell …

Nanoparticle delivery of curcumin induces cellular hypoxia and ROS-mediated apoptosis via modulation of Bcl-2/Bax in human neuroblastoma

I Kalashnikova, J Mazar, CJ Neal, AL Rosado, S Das… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, several formulations of nanoceria and dextran-nanoceria with curcumin, each
demonstrated to have anti-cancer properties, were synthesized and applied as treatment for …

Topology and maturation of filamentous haemagglutinin suggest a new model for two‐partner secretion

J Mazar, PA Cotter - Molecular microbiology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐partner secretion (TPS) is the most widely distributed secretion pathway known. These
systems export large exoproteins through highly conserved channel‐forming β‐barrel …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation of microRNA-375 and its role in melanoma development in humans

J Mazar, D DeBlasio, SS Govindarajan, S Zhang… - FEBS letters, 2011 - Elsevier
To identify epigenetically regulated miRNAs in melanoma, we treated a stage 3 melanoma
cell line WM1552C, with 5AzadC and/or 4-PBA. Several hypermethylated miRNAs were …

[HTML][HTML] Long noncoding RNAs as putative biomarkers for prostate cancer detection

B Lee, J Mazar, MN Aftab, F Qi, J Shelley, JL Li… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2014 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality among US males. There is an urgent
unmet need to develop sensitive and specific biomarkers for the early detection of prostate …

MicroRNA 211 functions as a metabolic switch in human melanoma cells

J Mazar, F Qi, B Lee, J Marchica… - … and cellular biology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
MicroRNA 211 (miR-211) negatively regulates genes that drive invasion of metastatic melanoma.
Compared to normal human melanocytes, miR-211 expression is significantly reduced …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation of microRNA genes and the role of miR-34b in cell invasion and motility in human melanoma

J Mazar, D Khaitan, D DeBlasio, C Zhong… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Invasive melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer. The treatment of melanoma-derived
cell lines with 5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine (5-Aza-dC) markedly increases the expression of …

New insight into the molecular mechanisms of two-partner secretion

J Mazar, PA Cotter - Trends in microbiology, 2007 - cell.com
Two-partner secretion (TPS) systems, which export large proteins to the surface and/or
extracellular milieu of Gram-negative bacteria, are members of a large superfamily of protein …