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The long and short of it: benchmarking viromics using Illumina, Nanopore and PacBio sequencing technologies (2024)
Journal Article

Viral metagenomics has fuelled a rapid change in our understanding of global viral diversity and ecology. Long-read sequencing and hybrid assembly approaches that combine long- and short-read technologies are now being widely implemented in bacterial... Read More about The long and short of it: benchmarking viromics using Illumina, Nanopore and PacBio sequencing technologies.

Impact of contrasting poultry exposures on human, poultry, and wastewater antibiotic resistomes in Bangladesh (2023)
Journal Article

Interactions between humans, animals, and the environment are considered critical foci for addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, One Health data on AMR in low- and middle-income countries are presently scarce. Using metagenomics, we inv... Read More about Impact of contrasting poultry exposures on human, poultry, and wastewater antibiotic resistomes in Bangladesh.

The adaptability of the ion binding site by the Ag(I)/Cu(I) periplasmic chaperone SilF (2023)
Journal Article

The periplasmic chaperone SilF has been identified as part of an Ag(I) detoxification system in Gram negative bacteria. Sil proteins also bind Cu(I), but with reported weaker affinity, therefore leading to the designation of a specific detoxification... Read More about The adaptability of the ion binding site by the Ag(I)/Cu(I) periplasmic chaperone SilF.

Predicting bioactivity of antibiotic metabolites by molecular docking and dynamics (2023)
Journal Article

Antibiotics enter the environment through waste streams, where they can exert selective pressure for antimicrobial resistance in bacteria. However, many antibiotics are excreted as partly metabolized forms, or can be subject to partial breakdown in w... Read More about Predicting bioactivity of antibiotic metabolites by molecular docking and dynamics.

Multidrug-Resistant ESBL-Producing E. coli in Clinical Samples from the UK (2023)
Journal Article

Globally, cephalosporin therapy failure is a serious problem for infection control. One causative agent of cephalosporin-resistant infections is multidrug-resistant (MDR) E. coli producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) and/or plasmid-encoded... Read More about Multidrug-Resistant ESBL-Producing E. coli in Clinical Samples from the UK.

Laboratory strains of Escherichia coli K-12: things are seldom what they seem (2022)
Journal Article

Escherichia coli K-12 was originally isolated 100 years ago and since then it has become an invaluable model organism and a cornerstone of molecular biology research. However, despite its pedigree, since its initial isolation E. coli K-12 has been re... Read More about Laboratory strains of Escherichia coli K-12: things are seldom what they seem.

Hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome reveals a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and virulence of veterinary pathogens (2021)
Journal Article

Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, known to be crucial components of microbial ecosystems. However, there is little information on the viral community within agricultural waste. There are currently ~ 2.7 million dairy cattle... Read More about Hybrid assembly of an agricultural slurry virome reveals a diverse and stable community with the potential to alter the metabolism and virulence of veterinary pathogens.

Towards a general model for predicting minimal metal concentrations co-selecting for antibiotic resistance plasmids (2021)
Journal Article

© 2021 Elsevier Ltd Many antibiotic resistance genes co-occur with resistance genes for transition metals, such as copper, zinc, or mercury. In some environments, a positive correlation between high metal concentration and high abundance of antibioti... Read More about Towards a general model for predicting minimal metal concentrations co-selecting for antibiotic resistance plasmids.