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Living cells as a biological analog of optical tweezers – a non-invasive microrheology approach (2023)
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Hardiman, W., Clark, M., Friel, C., Huett, A., Pérez-Cota, F., Setchfield, K., …Tassieri, M. (2023). Living cells as a biological analog of optical tweezers – a non-invasive microrheology approach. Acta Biomaterialia, 166, 317-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2023.04.039

Microrheology, the study of fluids on micron length-scales, promises to reveal insights into cellular biology, including mechanical biomarkers of disease and the interplay between biomechanics and cellular function. Here a minimally-invasive passive... Read More about Living cells as a biological analog of optical tweezers – a non-invasive microrheology approach.

A mechanoresponsive nano-sized carrier achieves intracellular release of drug on external ultrasound stimulus (2022)
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Catania, R., Onion, D., Russo, E., Zelzer, M., Mantovani, G., Huett, A., & Stolnik, S. (2022). A mechanoresponsive nano-sized carrier achieves intracellular release of drug on external ultrasound stimulus. RSC Advances, 12(26), 16561-16569. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra02307e

Control over intracellular release of therapeutic compounds incorporated into nano-carriers will open new possibilities for targeted treatments of various diseases including cancer, and viral and bacterial infections. Here we report our study on mech... Read More about A mechanoresponsive nano-sized carrier achieves intracellular release of drug on external ultrasound stimulus.

Synthesis and Antibacterial Evaluation of New Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines Kinase Inhibitors (2020)
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Greco, C., Catania, R., Balacco, D. L., Taresco, V., Musumeci, F., Alexander, C., …Schenone, S. (2020). Synthesis and Antibacterial Evaluation of New Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines Kinase Inhibitors. Molecules, 25(22), Article 5354. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25225354

Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines represent an important class of heterocyclic compounds well-known for their anticancer activity exerted by the inhibition of eukaryotic protein kinases. Recently, pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines have become increasingly attracti... Read More about Synthesis and Antibacterial Evaluation of New Pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidines Kinase Inhibitors.

Picosecond ultrasonics for elasticity-based imaging and characterization of biological cells (2020)
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Pérez-Cota, F., Fuentes-Domínguez, R., La Cavera III, S., Hardiman, W., Yao, M., Setchfield, K., …Clark, M. (2020). Picosecond ultrasonics for elasticity-based imaging and characterization of biological cells. Journal of Applied Physics, 128(16), Article 160902. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0023744

© 2020 Author(s). Characterization of the elasticity of biological cells is growing as a new way to gain insight into cell biology. Cell mechanics are related to most aspects of cellular behavior, and applications in research and medicine are broad.... Read More about Picosecond ultrasonics for elasticity-based imaging and characterization of biological cells.

A conserved protein, BcmA, mediates motility, biofilm formation, and host colonisation in Adherent Invasive Escherichia coli (2019)
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Cogger-Ward, R., Collins, A., McLean, D., Dehinsilu, J., & Huett, A. (2019). A conserved protein, BcmA, mediates motility, biofilm formation, and host colonisation in Adherent Invasive Escherichia coli

Adherent Invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) is a non-diarrhoeagenic intestinal E. coli pathotype associated with Crohn’s Disease. AIEC pathogenesis is characterised by biofilm formation, adhesion to and invasion of intestinal epithelial cells, and intr... Read More about A conserved protein, BcmA, mediates motility, biofilm formation, and host colonisation in Adherent Invasive Escherichia coli.

A multi-phenotypic imaging screen to identify bacterial effectors by exogenous expression in a HeLa cell line (2018)
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Collins, A., & Huett, A. (2018). A multi-phenotypic imaging screen to identify bacterial effectors by exogenous expression in a HeLa cell line. Scientific Data, 5, Article 180081. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.81

We present a high-content screen (HCS) for the simultaneous analysis of multiple phenotypes in HeLa cells expressing an autophagy reporter (mcherry-LC3) and one of 209 GFP-fused proteins from the Crohn’s Disease (CD)-associated bacterium, Adherent In... Read More about A multi-phenotypic imaging screen to identify bacterial effectors by exogenous expression in a HeLa cell line.

Combinatorial actions of bacterial effectors revealed by exploiting genetic tools in yeast (2017)
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Huett, A. (2017). Combinatorial actions of bacterial effectors revealed by exploiting genetic tools in yeast. Molecular Systems Biology, 13(1), 911. https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20167447

While yeast has been extensively used as a model system for analysing protein–protein and genetic interactions, in the context of bacterial pathogenesis, the use of yeast-based tools has largely been limited to identifying interactions between pathog... Read More about Combinatorial actions of bacterial effectors revealed by exploiting genetic tools in yeast.

The LRR and RING domain protein LRSAM1 is an E3 ligase crucial for ubiquitin-dependent autophagy of intracellular salmonella typhimurium (2012)
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Huett, A., Heath, R. J., Begun, J., Sassi, S. O., Baxt, L. A., Vyas, J. M., …Xavier, R. J. (2012). The LRR and RING domain protein LRSAM1 is an E3 ligase crucial for ubiquitin-dependent autophagy of intracellular salmonella typhimurium. Cell Host and Microbe, 12(6), 778-790. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2012.10.019

Several species of pathogenic bacteria replicate within an intracellular vacuolar niche. Bacteria that escape into the cytosol are captured by the autophagic pathway and targeted for lysosomal degradation, representing a defense against bacterial exp... Read More about The LRR and RING domain protein LRSAM1 is an E3 ligase crucial for ubiquitin-dependent autophagy of intracellular salmonella typhimurium.

Tribbles 2 (Trib2) is a novel regulator of toll-like receptor 5 signaling (2012)
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Wei, S. C., Rosenberg, I. M., Cao, Z., Huett, A. S., Xavier, R. J., & Podolsky, D. K. (2012). Tribbles 2 (Trib2) is a novel regulator of toll-like receptor 5 signaling. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 18(5), 877-888. https://doi.org/10.1002/ibd.22883

Background: Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are expressed by a variety of cells, including intestinal epithelia. However, the full spectrum of regulators modulating innate responses via TLRs has not been delineated. Tribbles (Trib) have been identified as... Read More about Tribbles 2 (Trib2) is a novel regulator of toll-like receptor 5 signaling.

Crohn disease: A current perspective on genetics, autophagy and immunity (2011)
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Stappenbeck, T. S., Rioux, J. D., Mizoguchi, A., Saitoh, T., Huett, A., Darfeuille-Michaud, A., …Xavier, R. J. (2011). Crohn disease: A current perspective on genetics, autophagy and immunity. Autophagy, 7(4), 355-374. https://doi.org/10.4161/auto.7.4.13074

Crohn disease (CD) is a chronic and debilitating inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract.1 Prevalence in western populations is 100-150/100,000 and somewhat higher in Ashkenazi Jews. Peak incidence is in early adult life, although any ag... Read More about Crohn disease: A current perspective on genetics, autophagy and immunity.