Minna Kaikkonen

Nov 18, 2024 | nature.com | Coraline Borowczyk |Minna Kaikkonen |William Tressel |James B. Stein |Edward B Thorp |Emmanuel L. Gautier | +3 more

AbstractMetabolic dysregulation, including perturbed glutamine–glutamate homeostasis, is common among patients with cardiovascular diseases, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Using the human MESA cohort, here we show that plasma glutamine–glutamate ratio is an independent risk factor for carotid plaque progression.

May 17, 2024 | nature.com | Brian D. Piening |Maedeh Mohebnasab |Bo Xia |Jeffrey S. Stern |Weimin Zhang |Jacqueline I. Kim | +20 more

AbstractIn a previous study, heart xenografts from 10-gene-edited pigs transplanted into two human decedents did not show evidence of acute-onset cellular- or antibody-mediated rejection. Here, to better understand the detailed molecular landscape following xenotransplantation, we carried out bulk and single-cell transcriptomics, lipidomics, proteomics and metabolomics on blood samples obtained from the transplanted decedents every 6 h, as well as histological and transcriptomic tissue profiling.

Mar 9, 2024 | cell.com | Minna Kaikkonen

Main textOver the past decade, a significant leap in our understanding of genetics has been achieved through the study of how genetic variation influences the regulatory mechanisms of gene expression. In November 2013, four labs published seminal work that initially discovered numerous variants linked to histone tail modifications, transcription factor (TF) binding, and gene expression variability using data from human lymphoblastoid cell lines and inbred mouse strains [1.