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Analgesic effects of the cathepsin K inhibitor L-006235 in the monosodium iodoacetate model of osteoarthritis pain (2018)
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Nwosu, L. N., Gowler, P. R., Burston, J. J., Rizoska, B., Tunblad, K., Lindström, E., Grabowska, U., Li, L., McWilliams, D. F., Walsh, D. A., & Chapman, V. (2018). Analgesic effects of the cathepsin K inhibitor L-006235 in the monosodium iodoacetate model of osteoarthritis pain. PAIN Reports, 3(6), Article 685. https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000000685

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The International Association for the Study of Pain. Introduction: The mounting evidence that osteoclasts play an important role in osteoarthritis (OA) pain lead us to invest... Read More about Analgesic effects of the cathepsin K inhibitor L-006235 in the monosodium iodoacetate model of osteoarthritis pain.

Chemical modulation of autophagy as an adjunct to chemotherapy in childhood and adolescent brain tumors (2018)
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Servante, J., Estranero, J., Meijer, L., Layfield, R., & Grundy, R. (2018). Chemical modulation of autophagy as an adjunct to chemotherapy in childhood and adolescent brain tumors. Oncotarget, 9(81), 35266-35277. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.26186

Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related death in children and are the most challenging childhood cancer in relation to diagnosis, treatment, and outcome. One potential novel strategy to improve outcomes in cancer involves the manipulati... Read More about Chemical modulation of autophagy as an adjunct to chemotherapy in childhood and adolescent brain tumors.

Photocrosslinkable gelatin hydrogels modulate the production of the major pro-inflammatory cytokine, TNF-α, by human mononuclear cells (2018)
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Donaldson, A. R., Edi Tanase, C., Awuah, D., Vasanthi Bathri Narayanan, P., Hall, L., Nikkhah, M., Khademhosseini, A., Rose, F., Alexander, C., & Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2018). Photocrosslinkable gelatin hydrogels modulate the production of the major pro-inflammatory cytokine, TNF-α, by human mononuclear cells. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 6, Article 116. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00116

Hydrogels are an attractive class of biomaterials in tissue engineering due to their inherently compatible properties for cell culture. Gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) has shown significant promise in the fields of tissue engineering and drug delivery,... Read More about Photocrosslinkable gelatin hydrogels modulate the production of the major pro-inflammatory cytokine, TNF-α, by human mononuclear cells.

Immunization with a synthetic consensus hepatitis C virus E2 glycoprotein ectodomain elicits virus-neutralizing antibodies (2018)
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Tarr, A. W., Backx, M., Hamed, M. R., Urbanowicz, R. A., McClure, C. P., Brown, R. J., & Ball, J. K. (2018). Immunization with a synthetic consensus hepatitis C virus E2 glycoprotein ectodomain elicits virus-neutralizing antibodies. Antiviral Research, 160, 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2018.09.005

Global eradication of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection will require an efficacious vaccine capable of eliciting protective immunity against genetically diverse HCV strains. Natural spontaneous resolution of HCV infection is associated with productio... Read More about Immunization with a synthetic consensus hepatitis C virus E2 glycoprotein ectodomain elicits virus-neutralizing antibodies.

CRISPR-Cas adaptation in Escherichia coli requires RecBCD helicase but not nuclease activity, is independent of homologous recombination, and is antagonized by 5' ssDNA exonucleases (2018)
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Radovčić, M., Killelea, T., Savitskaya, E., Wettstein, L., Bolt, E. L., & Ivančić-Baće, I. (2018). CRISPR-Cas adaptation in Escherichia coli requires RecBCD helicase but not nuclease activity, is independent of homologous recombination, and is antagonized by 5' ssDNA exonucleases. Nucleic Acids Research, 46(19), 10173-10183. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky799

© The Author(s) 2018. Prokaryotic adaptive immunity is established against mobile genetic elements (MGEs) by 'naïve adaptation' when DNA fragments from a newly encountered MGE are integrated into CRISPR-Cas systems. In Escherichia coli, DNA integrati... Read More about CRISPR-Cas adaptation in Escherichia coli requires RecBCD helicase but not nuclease activity, is independent of homologous recombination, and is antagonized by 5' ssDNA exonucleases.

Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi and Erwinia toletana: role in virulence and interspecies interactions in the olive knot (2018)
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Caballo-Ponce, E., Meng, X., Uzelac, G., Halliday, N., Cámara, M., Licastro, D., Passos da Silva, D., Ramos, C., & Venturi, V. (2018). Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi and Erwinia toletana: role in virulence and interspecies interactions in the olive knot. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 84(18), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00950-18

The olive-knot disease (Olea europea L.) is caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi (PSV). PSV in the olive-knot undergoes interspecies interactions with the harmless endophyte Erwina toletana (ET); PSV and ET co-localize and fo... Read More about Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi and Erwinia toletana: role in virulence and interspecies interactions in the olive knot.

Impaired vasocontractile responses to adenosine in chorionic vessels of human term placenta from pregnant women with pre-existing and gestational diabetes (2018)
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Razak, A. A., Leach, L., & Ralevic, V. (2018). Impaired vasocontractile responses to adenosine in chorionic vessels of human term placenta from pregnant women with pre-existing and gestational diabetes. Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, 15(6), 528-540. https://doi.org/10.1177/1479164118790904

Background: There is clinical and experimental evidence for altered adenosine signalling in the fetoplacental circulation in pregnancies complicated by diabetes, leading to adenosine accumulation in the placenta. However, the consequence for fetoplac... Read More about Impaired vasocontractile responses to adenosine in chorionic vessels of human term placenta from pregnant women with pre-existing and gestational diabetes.

Real-Time Ligand Binding of Fluorescent VEGF-A Isoforms that Discriminate between VEGFR2 and NRP1 in Living Cells (2018)
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Peach, C. J., Kilpatrick, L. E., Friedman-Ohana, R., Zimmerman, K., Robers, M. B., Wood, K. V., Woolard, J., & Hill, S. J. (2018). Real-Time Ligand Binding of Fluorescent VEGF-A Isoforms that Discriminate between VEGFR2 and NRP1 in Living Cells. Cell Chemical Biology, 25(10), 1208-1218.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.06.012

© 2018 The Author(s) Fluorescent VEGF-A isoforms have been evaluated for their ability to discriminate between VEGFR2 and NRP1 in real-time ligand binding studies in live cells using BRET. To enable this, we synthesized single-site (N-terminal cystei... Read More about Real-Time Ligand Binding of Fluorescent VEGF-A Isoforms that Discriminate between VEGFR2 and NRP1 in Living Cells.

Rapid host strain improvement by in vivo rearrangement of a synthetic yeast chromosome (2018)
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Blount, B. A., Gowers, G.-O. F., Ho, J. C. H., Ledesma-Amaro, R., Jovicevic, D., McKiernan, R. M., Xie, Z. X., Li, B. Z., Yuan, Y. J., & Ellis, T. (2018). Rapid host strain improvement by in vivo rearrangement of a synthetic yeast chromosome. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 1932. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03143-w

© 2018 The Author(s). Synthetic biology tools, such as modular parts and combinatorial DNA assembly, are routinely used to optimise the productivity of heterologous metabolic pathways for biosynthesis or substrate utilisation, yet it is well establis... Read More about Rapid host strain improvement by in vivo rearrangement of a synthetic yeast chromosome.

Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle (2018)
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Perrin, L., Loizides-Mangold, U., Chanon, S., Gobet, C., Hulo, N., Isenegger, L., Weger, B. D. .., Migliavacca, E., Charpagne, A., Betts, J. A., Walhin, J.-P., Templeman, I., Stokes, K., Thompson, D., Tsintzas, K., Robert, M., Howald, C., Riezman, H., Feige, J. N., Karagounis, L. G., …Dibner, C. (2018). Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle. eLife, 7, Article e34114. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.34114.001

Circadian regulation of transcriptional processes has a broad impact on cell metabolism. Here, we compared the diurnal transcriptome of human skeletal muscle conducted on serial muscle biopsies in vivo with profiles of human skeletal myotubes synchro... Read More about Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle.