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Cost effectiveness of an intervention to increase uptake of hepatitis C virus testing and treatment (HepCATT): cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care (2020)
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Roberts, K., Macleod, J., Metcalfe, C., Hollingworth, W., Williams, J., Muir, P., …Hickman, M. (2020). Cost effectiveness of an intervention to increase uptake of hepatitis C virus testing and treatment (HepCATT): cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care. BMJ, 368(368), Article m322. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m322

Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of... Read More about Cost effectiveness of an intervention to increase uptake of hepatitis C virus testing and treatment (HepCATT): cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care.

Coinfinder: Detecting significant associations and dissociations in pangenomes (2020)
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Whelan, F. J., Rusilowicz, M., & McInerney, J. O. (2020). Coinfinder: Detecting significant associations and dissociations in pangenomes. Microbial Genomics, 6(3), https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000338

© 2020 The Authors. The accessory genes of prokaryote and eukaryote pangenomes accumulate by horizontal gene transfer, differential gene loss, and the effects of selection and drift. We have developed Coinfinder, a software program that assesses whet... Read More about Coinfinder: Detecting significant associations and dissociations in pangenomes.

Cas3 Protein—A Review of a Multi-Tasking Machine (2020)
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He, L., St. John James, M., Radovcic, M., Ivancic-Bace, I., & Bolt, E. L. (2020). Cas3 Protein—A Review of a Multi-Tasking Machine. Genes, 11(2), Article 208. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11020208

Cas3 has essential functions in CRISPR immunity but its other activities and roles, in vitro and in cells, are less widely known. We offer a concise review of the latest understanding and questions arising from studies of Cas3 mechanism during CRISPR... Read More about Cas3 Protein—A Review of a Multi-Tasking Machine.

Hepatitis C virus vaccine: Challenges and prospects (2020)
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Duncan, J. D., Urbanowicz, R. A., Tarr, A. W., & Ball, J. K. (2020). Hepatitis C virus vaccine: Challenges and prospects. Vaccines, 8(1), Article 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8010090

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) causes both acute and chronic infection and continues to be a global problem despite advances in antiviral therapeutics. Current treatments fail to prevent reinfect... Read More about Hepatitis C virus vaccine: Challenges and prospects.

Cross-kingdom signalling regulates spore germination in the moss Physcomitrella patens (2020)
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Vesty, E. F., Whitbread, A. L., Needs, S., Tanko, W., Jones, K., Halliday, N., …Coates, J. C. (2020). Cross-kingdom signalling regulates spore germination in the moss Physcomitrella patens. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 2614. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59467-5

Plants live in close association with microorganisms that can have beneficial or detrimental effects. The activity of bacteria in association with flowering plants has been extensively analysed. Bacteria use quorum-sensing as a way of monitoring thei... Read More about Cross-kingdom signalling regulates spore germination in the moss Physcomitrella patens.

New missense variants in RELT causing hypomineralised amelogenesis imperfecta (2020)
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Nikolopoulos, G., Smith, C. E., Brookes, S. J., El-Asrag, M. E., Brown, C. J., Patel, A., …Mighell, A. J. (2020). New missense variants in RELT causing hypomineralised amelogenesis imperfecta. Clinical Genetics, 97(5), 688-695. https://doi.org/10.1111/cge.13721

© 2020 The Authors. Clinical Genetics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a heterogeneous group of genetic diseases characterised by dental enamel malformation. Pathogenic variants in at least 33 genes cause syndromi... Read More about New missense variants in RELT causing hypomineralised amelogenesis imperfecta.

Plasmodium Condensin Core Subunits SMC2/SMC4 Mediate Atypical Mitosis and Are Essential for Parasite Proliferation and Transmission (2020)
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Le Roch, K. G., Holder, A. A., Bottrill, A. R., Stanway, R. R., Wall, R. J., Tewari, R., …Brady, D. (2020). Plasmodium Condensin Core Subunits SMC2/SMC4 Mediate Atypical Mitosis and Are Essential for Parasite Proliferation and Transmission. Cell Reports, 30(6), 1883-1897.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.033

Condensin is a multi-subunit protein complex regulating chromosome condensation and segregation during cell division. In Plasmodium spp., the causative agent of malaria, cell division is atypical and the role of condensin is unclear. Here we examine... Read More about Plasmodium Condensin Core Subunits SMC2/SMC4 Mediate Atypical Mitosis and Are Essential for Parasite Proliferation and Transmission.

Application of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to study substrate binding in styrene maleic acid lipid copolymer encapsulated ABCG2 (2020)
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Horsey, A. J., Briggs, D. A., Holliday, N. D., Briddon, S. J., & Kerr, I. D. (2020). Application of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to study substrate binding in styrene maleic acid lipid copolymer encapsulated ABCG2. BBA - Biomembranes, 1862(6), Article 183218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2020.183218

© 2020 The Authors ABCG2 is one of a trio of human ATP binding cassette transporters that have the ability to bind and transport a diverse array of chemical substrates out of cells. This so-called “multidrug” transport has numerous physiological cons... Read More about Application of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy to study substrate binding in styrene maleic acid lipid copolymer encapsulated ABCG2.

Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila) (2020)
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SAADI, A. J., DAVISON, A., & WADE, C. M. (2020). Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 190(2), 518-531. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz177

© 2020 The Linnean Society of London. We have undertaken a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Hygrophila based on 3112 sites of the large subunit and 5.8S ribosomal RNA genes. A clear basal division between Chilinoidea and Lymnaeoid... Read More about Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila).

A pilot study of alterations in oxidized angiotensinogen and antioxidants in pre-eclamptic pregnancy (2020)
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Dahabiyeh, L. A., Tooth, D., Kurlak, L. O., Mistry, H. D., Pipkin, F. B., & Barrett, D. A. (2020). A pilot study of alterations in oxidized angiotensinogen and antioxidants in pre-eclamptic pregnancy. Scientific Reports, 10(1), Article 1956. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58930-7

© 2020, The Author(s). The oxidation status of angiotensinogen (AGT) may have a critical role in pre-eclampsia. We used a validated, quantitative, mass spectrometry-based method to measure the oxidized and total AGT levels in plasma of pre-eclamptic... Read More about A pilot study of alterations in oxidized angiotensinogen and antioxidants in pre-eclamptic pregnancy.