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A rapid genome-proteome approach to identify rate-limiting steps in the butyrate production pathway in probiotic Clostridium butyricum, CBM588. (2025)
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Wood, L., Omorotionmwan, B. B., Blanchard, A. M., Dowle, A., Tooth, D., Bailey, T. S., & Griffin, R. (2025). A rapid genome-proteome approach to identify rate-limiting steps in the butyrate production pathway in probiotic Clostridium butyricum, CBM588. Anaerobe, Article 102940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2025.102940

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Clostridium butyricum ferments non-digested dietary fibre in the colon to produce butyric acid. Butyrate is a four-carbon, short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) which has multiple health benefits. Many microbial products of pharmaceutical or in... Read More about A rapid genome-proteome approach to identify rate-limiting steps in the butyrate production pathway in probiotic Clostridium butyricum, CBM588..

Potential role for pyruvate kinase M2 in the regulation of murine cardiac glycolytic flux during in vivo chronic hypoxia (2021)
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Handzlik, M. K., Tooth, D. J., Constantin-Teodosiu, D., Greenhaff, P. L., & Cole, M. A. (2021). Potential role for pyruvate kinase M2 in the regulation of murine cardiac glycolytic flux during in vivo chronic hypoxia. Bioscience Reports, 41(6), Article BSR20203170. https://doi.org/10.1042/bsr20203170

Carbohydrate metabolism in heart failure shares similarities to that following hypoxic exposure, and is thought to maintain energy homeostasis in the face of reduced O2 availability. As part of these in vivo adaptations during sustained hypoxia, the... Read More about Potential role for pyruvate kinase M2 in the regulation of murine cardiac glycolytic flux during in vivo chronic hypoxia.

Potential nutraceutical properties of leaves from several commonly cultivated plants (2020)
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Amat-ur-Rasool, H., Symes, F., Tooth, D., Schaffert, L.-N., Elmorsy, E., Ahmed, M., Hasnain, S., & Carter, W. G. (2020). Potential nutraceutical properties of leaves from several commonly cultivated plants. Biomolecules, 10(11), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10111556

Chronic dietary ingestion of suitable phytochemicals may assist with limiting or negating neurodegenerative decline. Current therapeutics used to treat Alzheimer disease elicit broad adverse drug reactions, and alternative sources of cholinesterase i... Read More about Potential nutraceutical properties of leaves from several commonly cultivated plants.

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.

Profiling of 54 plasma glycoproteins by label-free targeted LC-MS/MS (2018)
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Dahabiyeh, L. A., Tooth, D., & Barrett, D. A. (2019). Profiling of 54 plasma glycoproteins by label-free targeted LC-MS/MS. Analytical Biochemistry, 567, 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2018.12.011

Glycoproteins play a central role in diverse biological processes and are linked with many serious human diseases. In this paper we present a simple, reproducible and cost-effective analytical workflow that enables the reliable quantification of clin... Read More about Profiling of 54 plasma glycoproteins by label-free targeted LC-MS/MS.

Measurement of the total angiotensinogen and its reduced and oxidised forms in human plasma using targeted LC-MS/MS (2018)
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Dahabiyeh, L. A., Tooth, D., Carrell, R. W., Read, R. J., Yan, Y., Pipkin, F. B., & Barrett, D. A. (2019). Measurement of the total angiotensinogen and its reduced and oxidised forms in human plasma using targeted LC-MS/MS. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 411(2), 427–437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-018-1455-2

Angiotensinogen (AGT) is a critical protein in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and may have an important role in the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia. The disulphide linkage between cysteines 18 and 138 has a key role in the redox switch of AGT... Read More about Measurement of the total angiotensinogen and its reduced and oxidised forms in human plasma using targeted LC-MS/MS.

Mass spectrometry insights into a tandem ubiquitin-binding domain hybrid engineered for the selective recognition of unanchored polyubiquitin (2016)
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Scott, D., Garner, T. P., Long, J., Strachan, J., Mistry, S. C., Bottrill, A. R., Tooth, D. J., Searle, M. S., Oldham, N. J., & Layfield, R. (in press). Mass spectrometry insights into a tandem ubiquitin-binding domain hybrid engineered for the selective recognition of unanchored polyubiquitin. Proteomics, 16(14), https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201600067

Unanchored polyubiquitin chains are emerging as importanregulators of cellular physiology with diverse roles paralleling those of substrate-conjugated polyubiquitin. However tools able to discriminate unanchored polyubiquitin chains of different isop... Read More about Mass spectrometry insights into a tandem ubiquitin-binding domain hybrid engineered for the selective recognition of unanchored polyubiquitin.

Isoaspartate, Carbamoyl phosphate synthase-1, and carbonic anhydrase-III as biomarkers of liver injury (2016)
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Carter, W., Vigneswara, V., Newlaczyl, A., Wayne, D., Ahmed, B., Saddington, S., Brewer, C., raut, N., Gerdes, H., Erdozain, A., Tooth, D., Bolt, E., Osna, N., Tuma, D., & Kharbanda, K. (2016). Isoaspartate, Carbamoyl phosphate synthase-1, and carbonic anhydrase-III as biomarkers of liver injury. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 458(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.01.158

We had previously shown that alcohol consumption can induce cellular isoaspartate protein damage via an impairment of the activity of protein isoaspartyl methyltransferase (PIMT), an enzyme that triggers repair of isoaspartate protein damage. To furt... Read More about Isoaspartate, Carbamoyl phosphate synthase-1, and carbonic anhydrase-III as biomarkers of liver injury.

Myosin-Va and dynamic actin oppose microtubules to drive long-range organelle transport (2014)
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Evans, R. D., Robinson, C., Briggs, D. A., Tooth, D. J., Ramalho, J. S., Cantero, M., Montoliu, L., Patel, S., Sviderskaya, E. V., & Hume, A. N. (2014). Myosin-Va and dynamic actin oppose microtubules to drive long-range organelle transport. Current Biology, 24(15), 1743-1750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.06.019

In animal cells, microtubule and actin tracks and their associated motors (dynein, kinesin, and myosin) are thought to regulate long- and short-range transport, respectively [1-8]. Consistent with this, microtubules extend from the perinuclear centro... Read More about Myosin-Va and dynamic actin oppose microtubules to drive long-range organelle transport.

Alcohol-related brain damage in humans (2014)
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Quintas, L. E. M., Erdozain, A. M., Morentin, B., Bedford, L., King, E., Tooth, D., Brewer, C., Wayne, D., Johnson, L., Gerdes, H. K., Wigmore, P., Callado, L. F., & Carter, W. G. (2014). Alcohol-related brain damage in humans. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e93586. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093586

Chronic excessive alcohol intoxications evoke cumulative damage to tissues and organs. We examined prefrontal cortex (Brodmann’s area (BA) 9) from 20 human alcoholics and 20 age, gender, and postmortem delay matched control subjects. H & E staining a... Read More about Alcohol-related brain damage in humans.

Characterisation of faecal protease activity in irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea: origin and effect of gut transit (2013)
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Tooth, D., Garsed, K., Singh, G., Marciani, L., Lam, C., Fordham, I., Fields, A., Banwait, R., Lingaya, M., Layfield, R., Hastings, M., Whorwell, P., & Spiller, R. C. (2014). Characterisation of faecal protease activity in irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea: origin and effect of gut transit. Gut, 63(5), 753-760. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2012-304042