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UNMC Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

@UNMC_Biochem

University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

 Omaha, NE
unmc.edu/biochemistry/
Joined May 2018
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Congratulations to Dr. Batra’s and Ponnusamy’s @MoorthyPP labs for a paper “SLC22A3/OCT3 drives serotonin-mediated stemness in pancreatic cancer” published in Cell Reports pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4225…
SLC22A3/OCT3 drives serotonin-mediated stemness in pancreatic cancer - PubMed

SLC22A3/OCT3 drives serotonin-mediated stemness in pancreatic cancer - PubMed

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a highly aggressive malignancy, with cancer stem cells (CSCs) playing a critical role in metastasis, therapy resistance, and recurrence, thereby presenting significant...

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Nivedeta Krishna Kumar is the first author
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Armen Petrosyan@armpetrJun 23
We are excited to share that we contributed Chapter 27, "The Dual Role of Wine in Prostate Cancer: Risk and Benefit," to the book Wine in Health and Disease Prevention.
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Congratulations to Dr. Batra’s and Shah’s @ashushah2006 labs for a review paper “Homeobox A10 in gastrointestinal malignancies: unraveling metastatic mechanisms and novel therapeutic opportunities” published in Cancer and Metastasis Reviews. link.springer.com/article/10…
Homeobox A10 in gastrointestinal malignancies: unraveling metastatic mechanisms and novel therape...

Homeobox A10 in gastrointestinal malignancies: unraveling metastatic mechanisms and novel therape...

Cancer and Metastasis Reviews - Homeobox (HOX) genes are essential regulators of embryonic development and cellular differentiation under physiological conditions. Among this gene family, HOXA10...

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Sophia Kisling is the first author
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Congratulations to Dr. Batra’s and Ponnusamy’s labs for a paper “The underexplored complexity of pancreatic cancer: Early dissemination and quiescence” published in BBA - Reviews on Cancer sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Nivedeta Krishna Kumar is the first author
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Congratulations to Dr. Kate Hyde @RKateHyde on receiving the UNMC Outstanding Teacher Award! unmc.edu/newsroom/2026/04/10…
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Congratulations to Dr. Moorthy Ponnusamy @MoorthyPP on receiving the UNMC Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Junior Faculty Award! unmc.edu/newsroom/2026/04/08…
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Ajay Murakonda, Naava Naslavsky and Steve Caplan @caplansteve @UNMC_Biochem @UNMC find that MICAL2 regulates endosomal fission through actin disassembly. Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/… Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/…
Figure showing that overexpression of MICAL2 decreases endosomal branched actin.

ALT Figure showing that overexpression of MICAL2 decreases endosomal branched actin.

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Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Oberley-Deegan on receiving an award from the National Strategic Research Institute by the Defense Health Agency! @unmc_research @NebraskaMed
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Deegan’s lab project, “Medical Countermeasures for Acute Radiation Syndrome,” is part of a $35 million award supporting a multi-institutional radiation protection team of 10 investigators across UNMC, UNL, and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute.
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Congratulations to the Schott lab @micahschott on publishing “Rab5 nucleotide binding promotes oxidative metabolism to fuel hepatocellular carcinoma cell proliferation” in the JBC! jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(2…

Rab5 nucleotide binding promotes oxidative metabolism to fuel hepatocellular carcinoma cell...

Altered lipid metabolism and lipid droplet (LD) dynamics are features of certain hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) subtypes, but the molecular mechanisms governing LD trafficking and catabolism in HCC...

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Congratulations to Petrosyan’s lab @armpetr on publishing the manuscript “Dynamic Shifts in ER–Plasma Membrane Junctions Signaling Define Pro-Metastatic N-Glycosylation and Predict Prostate Cancer Progression” in Advanced Science! @unmc_research @BuffettCancer
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advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley… Amanda Macke and Tania Kamal are “first-authors” of the manuscript
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Congratulations to Dr. Batra’s and Ponnusamy’s labs @MoorthyPP for a paper “Targeting the DDX3/PAF1 Axis Enhances Chemotherapy Efficacy in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma” published in Cancer Letters. Palanisamy Nallasamy is the first-author.
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Targeting the DDX3/PAF1 Axis Enhances Chemotherapy Efficacy in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma - ScienceDirect
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The American Journal of Pathology@AJPathologyJan 7
Lipid Droplet Dynamics in Alcoholic Steatohepatitis. From @micahschott and colleagues at @unmc, @unmc_biochem #OpenAccess text: ajp.amjpathol.org/article/S0…
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