Special Issue "Nuclear Organization, Dynamics and Phase Separation in Health and Disease"

A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Nuclei: Function, Transport and Receptors".

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Special Issue Editors

Department of Biology of the Cell Nucleus, Institute of Molecular Genetics of the CAS, 142 20 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: cell nucleus; nucleolus; regulation of gene expression; epigenetics; nucleoskeleton; nuclear myosins; actin and phospholipids; lamins; laminopathies; phase separation; microscopy
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Chromatin Dynamics and Metabolism in Cancer CNRS UMR9018, Institut Gustave Roussy, 39, rue Camille-Desmoulins, 94805 Villejuif, France
Interests: cell biology; hematology; molecular biology; genetics; genomics; oncology; virology; biomedicine; epigenetics; biochemistry; immunology
Head of Department of Pharmaceutical, Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine
Interests: medicinal chemistry; heterocyclic chemistry; organic synthesis; cancer biology; cancer cell line; pharmaceutical chemistry; anticancer compounds; apoptosis; QSAR
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue in Cells, which will be selected from presentations at the 27th Wilhelm Bernhard Workshop on the Cell Nucleus, taking place in Prague, 19–23 June 2023 (https://wbw27.wbworkshops.com/).

The molecular organization within the cell nucleus determines gene expression, and recent observations revolutionize our understanding how this intra-nuclear order is formed and maintained, with an emerging crucial role of phase separation. This Special Issue will address a wide range of research topics, in relation to chromatin functioning and nuclear compartmentalization in the context of regulation of gene expression, nuclear lipids, phase separation, DNA replication and repair, pathogenesis, and cancer. Attention will be awarded to multidisciplinary approaches, including light and electron (cryo)-microscopy, lipid chemistry, and biophysics, addressing novel views on the functions of macromolecular assemblies involved in nuclear compartmentalization and functioning.

Both original research manuscripts and reviews will be accepted.

Please see https://wbw27.wbworkshops.com/call-for-papers/ for more details.

We are looking forward to your contributions to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Pavel Hozák
Dr. Yegor S. Vassetzky
Prof. Dr. Roman B. Lesyk
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • cell nucleus
  • nuclear compartments
  • gene expression
  • nuclear lipids
  • phase separation
  • DNA replication
  • nuclear diagnostics
  • pathogenesis
  • cancer

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The Role of p53 in Nanoparticle-Based Therapy for Cancer
Cells 2023, 12(24), 2803; https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12242803 (registering DOI) - 08 Dec 2023
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p53 is arguably one of the most important tumor suppressor genes in humans. Due to the paramount importance of p53 in the onset of cell cycle arrest and apoptosis, the p53 gene is found either silenced or mutated in the vast majority of [...] Read more.
p53 is arguably one of the most important tumor suppressor genes in humans. Due to the paramount importance of p53 in the onset of cell cycle arrest and apoptosis, the p53 gene is found either silenced or mutated in the vast majority of cancers. Furthermore, activated wild-type p53 exhibits a strong bystander effect, thereby activating apoptosis in surrounding cells without being physically present there. For these reasons, p53-targeted therapy that is designed to restore the function of wild-type p53 in cancer cells seems to be a very appealing therapeutic approach. Systemic delivery of p53-coding DNA or RNA using nanoparticles proved to be feasible both in vitro and in vivo. In fact, one p53-based therapeutic (gendicine) is currently approved for commercial use in China. However, the broad use of p53-based therapy in p53-inactivated cancers is severely restricted by its inadequate efficacy. This review highlights the current state-of-the-art in this area of biomedical research and also discusses novel approaches that may help overcome the shortcomings of p53-targeting nanomedicine. Full article
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