[HTML][HTML] Engineering venom's toxin-neutralizing antibody fragments and its therapeutic potential

LM Alvarenga, M Zahid, A di Tommaso, MO Juste… - Toxins, 2014 - mdpi.com
Serum therapy remains the only specific treatment against envenoming, but anti-venoms are
still prepared by fragmentation of polyclonal antibodies isolated from hyper-immunized …

[HTML][HTML] Angiotensin II facilitates breast cancer cell migration and metastasis

S Rodrigues-Ferreira, M Abdelkarim… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Breast cancer metastasis is a leading cause of death by malignancy in women worldwide.
Efforts are being made to further characterize the rate-limiting steps of cancer metastasis, ie …

[HTML][HTML] 8p22 MTUS1 Gene Product ATIP3 Is a Novel Anti-Mitotic Protein Underexpressed in Invasive Breast Carcinoma of Poor Prognosis

S Rodrigues-Ferreira, A Di Tommaso, A Dimitrov… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease that is not totally eradicated by
current therapies. The classification of breast tumors into distinct molecular subtypes by …

ATIP3, a novel prognostic marker of breast cancer patient survival, limits cancer cell migration and slows metastatic progression by regulating microtubule dynamics

A Molina, L Velot, L Ghouinem, M Abdelkarim… - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
Metastasis, a fatal complication of breast cancer, does not fully benefit from available
therapies. In this study, we investigated whether ATIP3, the major product of 8p22 MTUS1 …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted Delivery of Toxoplasma gondii Antigens to Dendritic Cells Promote Immunogenicity and Protective Efficiency against Toxoplasmosis

Z Lakhrif, A Moreau, B Hérault, A Di-Tommaso… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Toxoplasmosis is a major public health problem and the development of a human vaccine is
of high priority. Efficient vaccination against Toxoplasma gondii requires both a mucosal and …

A method to confer Protein L binding ability to any antibody fragment

Z Lakhrif, M Pugnière, C Henriquet, A Di Tommaso… - MAbs, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
abstract Recombinant antibody single-chain variable fragments (scFv) are difficult to purify
homogeneously from a protein complex mixture. The most effective, specific and fastest …

[HTML][HTML] A novel nuclear interactor of ARF and MDM2 (NIAM) that maintains chromosomal stability

VS Tompkins, J Hagen, AA Frazier… - Journal of Biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
The ARF tumor suppressor signals through p53 and other poorly defined anti-proliferative
pathways to block carcinogenesis. In a search for new regulators of ARF signaling, we …

[HTML][HTML] Bispecific antibodies tethering innate receptors induce human tolerant-dendritic cells and regulatory T cells

L Lamendour, M Gilotin… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
There is an urgent need for alternative therapies targeting human dendritic cells (DCs) that
could reverse inflammatory syndromes in many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and …

Residues in the alternative reading frame tumor suppressor that influence its stability and p53-independent activities

A di Tommaso, J Hagen, V Tompkins, V Muniz… - Experimental cell …, 2009 - Elsevier
The Alternative Reading Frame (ARF) protein suppresses tumorigenesis through p53-
dependent and p53-independent pathways. Most of ARF's anti-proliferative activity is …

[HTML][HTML] Diabody mixture providing full protection against experimental scorpion envenoming with crude Androctonus australis venom

A Di Tommaso, MO Juste, MF Martin-Eauclaire… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
Androctonus australis is primarily involved in envenomations in North Africa, notably in
Tunisia and Algeria, and constitutes a significant public health problem in this region. The …