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Priming from within: TLR2 dependent but receptor independent activation of the mammary macrophage inflammasome by Streptococcus uberis (2024)
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Hinds, A., Ward, P., Archer, N., & Leigh, J. (2024). Priming from within: TLR2 dependent but receptor independent activation of the mammary macrophage inflammasome by Streptococcus uberis. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 14, Article 1444178. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2024.1444178

Introduction: Streptococcus uberis is a member of the pyogenic cluster of Streptococcus commonly associated with intramammary infection and mastitis in dairy cattle. It is a poorly controlled globally endemic pathogen responsible for a significant ca... Read More about Priming from within: TLR2 dependent but receptor independent activation of the mammary macrophage inflammasome by Streptococcus uberis.

The expanding role of cap-adjacent modifications in animals (2024)
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Bellows, E., Fray, R. G., Knight, H. M., & Archer, N. (2024). The expanding role of cap-adjacent modifications in animals. Frontiers in RNA Research, 2, Article 1485307. https://doi.org/10.3389/frnar.2024.1485307

Eukaryotic mRNA cap structures directly influence mRNA stability, translation, and immune recognition. While the significance of the mRNA cap itself has been well-established, recent research has revealed the intricate modifications to the nucleotide... Read More about The expanding role of cap-adjacent modifications in animals.

Epitranscriptomic mechanisms of androgen signalling and prostate cancer (2024)
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Patke, R., Harris, A. E., Woodcock, C. L., Thompson, R., Santos, R., Kumari, A., Allegrucci, C., Archer, N., Gudas, L. J., Robinson, B. D., Persson, J. L., Fray, R., Jeyapalan, J., Rutland, C. S., Rakha, E., Madhusudan, S., Emes, R. D., Muyangwa-Semenova, M., Alsaleem, M., de Brot, S., …Lothion-Roy, J. (2024). Epitranscriptomic mechanisms of androgen signalling and prostate cancer. Neoplasia, 56, Article 101032. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neo.2024.101032

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer diagnosed in men. While radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy are often successful in treating localised disease, post-treatment recurrence is common. As the androgen receptor (AR) and androgen... Read More about Epitranscriptomic mechanisms of androgen signalling and prostate cancer.

Comparative transcriptome reprogramming in oak galls containing asexual or sexual generations of gall wasps (2024)
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Bellows, E., Heatley, M., Shah, N., Archer, N., Giles, T., & Fray, R. (2024). Comparative transcriptome reprogramming in oak galls containing asexual or sexual generations of gall wasps. Plant Biology, 26(5), 798-810. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13670

Oak gall wasps have evolved strategies to manipulate the developmental pathways of their host to induce gall formation. This provides shelter and nutrients for the developing larva. Galls are entirely host tissue; however, the initiation, development... Read More about Comparative transcriptome reprogramming in oak galls containing asexual or sexual generations of gall wasps.

Reproducible isolation of bovine mammary macrophages for analysis of host pathogen interactions (2024)
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Tomes, A., Archer, N., & Leigh, J. (2024). Reproducible isolation of bovine mammary macrophages for analysis of host pathogen interactions. BMC Veterinary Research, 20, Article 96. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-024-03944-w

Background: Macrophages residing in milk are vital during intramammary infections. This study sought to develop a method enabling the investigation of macrophage responses to pathogens. Streptococcus uberis is the predominant cause of bovine mastitis... Read More about Reproducible isolation of bovine mammary macrophages for analysis of host pathogen interactions.

The importance of m6A topology in chicken embryo mRNA: a precise mapping of m6A at the conserved chicken β-actin zipcode (2023)
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Baron, F., Zhang, M., Archer, N., Bellows, E., Knight, H. M., Welham, S., …Bodi, Z. (2023). The importance of m6A topology in chicken embryo mRNA: a precise mapping of m6A at the conserved chicken β-actin zipcode. RNA, 29(6), 777-789. https://doi.org/10.1261/rna.079615.123

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in mRNA regulates almost every stage in the mRNA life cycle, and the development of methodologies for the high-throughput detection of methylated sites in mRNA using m6A-specific methylated RNA immunoprecipitation with next-g... Read More about The importance of m6A topology in chicken embryo mRNA: a precise mapping of m6A at the conserved chicken β-actin zipcode.

Clinical and molecular significance of the RNA m6A methyltransferase complex in prostate cancer (2023)
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Lothion-Roy, J., Haigh, D. B., Harris, A. E., Metzler, V. M., Alsaleem, M., Toss, M. S., …Woodcock, C. L. (2023). Clinical and molecular significance of the RNA m6A methyltransferase complex in prostate cancer. Frontiers in Genetics, 13, Article 1096071. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.1096071

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most abundant internal mRNA modification and is dynamically regulated through distinct protein complexes that methylate, demethylate, and/or interpret the m6A modification. These proteins, and the m6A modification, are... Read More about Clinical and molecular significance of the RNA m6A methyltransferase complex in prostate cancer.

The METTL3 RNA Methyltransferase Regulates Transcriptional Networks in Prostate Cancer (2022)
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Haigh, D. B., Woodcock, C. L., Lothion-Roy, J., Harris, A. E., Metzler, V. M., Persson, J. L., …Mongan, N. P. (2022). The METTL3 RNA Methyltransferase Regulates Transcriptional Networks in Prostate Cancer. Cancers, 14(20), Article 5148. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14205148

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is driven by aberrant androgen receptor (AR) signalling. For this reason, androgen deprivation therapies (ADTs) that suppress androgen-induced PCa progression either by preventing... Read More about The METTL3 RNA Methyltransferase Regulates Transcriptional Networks in Prostate Cancer.

CMTr cap-adjacent 2′-O-ribose mRNA methyltransferases are required for reward learning and mRNA localization to synapses (2022)
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Haussmann, I. U., Wu, Y., Nallasivan, M. P., Archer, N., Bodi, Z., Hebenstreit, D., …Soller, M. (2022). CMTr cap-adjacent 2′-O-ribose mRNA methyltransferases are required for reward learning and mRNA localization to synapses. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 1209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28549-5

Cap-adjacent nucleotides of animal, protist and viral mRNAs can be O-methylated at the 2`position of the ribose (cOMe). The functions of cOMe in animals, however, remain largely unknown. Here we show that the two cap methyltransferases (CMTr1 and CMT... Read More about CMTr cap-adjacent 2′-O-ribose mRNA methyltransferases are required for reward learning and mRNA localization to synapses.

Two zinc finger proteins with functions in m6A writing interact with HAKAI (2022)
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Zhang, M., Bodi, Z., Mackinnon, K., Zhong, S., Archer, N., Mongan, N. P., …Fray, R. G. (2022). Two zinc finger proteins with functions in m6A writing interact with HAKAI. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 1127. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28753-3

The methyltransferase complex (m6A writer), which catalyzes the deposition of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) in mRNAs, is highly conserved across most eukaryotic organisms, but its components and interactions between them are still far from fully understoo... Read More about Two zinc finger proteins with functions in m6A writing interact with HAKAI.

A paradox in bacterial pathogenesis: Activation of the local macrophage inflammasome is required for virulence of streptococcus uberis (2020)
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Archer, N., Egan, S. A., Coffey, T. J., Emes, R. D., Addis, M. F., Ward, P. N., …Leigh, J. A. (2020). A paradox in bacterial pathogenesis: Activation of the local macrophage inflammasome is required for virulence of streptococcus uberis. Pathogens, 9(12), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9120997

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Streptococcus uberis is a common cause of intramammary infection and mastitis in dairy cattle. Unlike other mammary pathogens, S. uberis evades detection by mammary epithelial cells, and the h... Read More about A paradox in bacterial pathogenesis: Activation of the local macrophage inflammasome is required for virulence of streptococcus uberis.

Detection and analysis of RNA methylation (2019)
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Mongan, N. P., Emes, R. D., & Archer, N. (2019). Detection and analysis of RNA methylation. F1000Research, 8, 559. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.17956.1

© 2019 Mongan NP et al. Our understanding of the expanded genetic alphabet has been growing rapidly over the last two decades, and many of these developments came more than 80 years after the original discovery of a modified guanine in tuberculosis D... Read More about Detection and analysis of RNA methylation.

m6A potentiates Sxl alternative pre-mRNA splicing for robust Drosophila sex determination (2016)
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Haussmann, I. U., Bodi, Z., Sanchez-Moran, E., Mongan, N. P., Archer, N., Fray, R. G., & Soller, M. (2016). m6A potentiates Sxl alternative pre-mRNA splicing for robust Drosophila sex determination. Nature, 540(7632), 301-304. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20577

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is the most common internal modification of eukaryotic messenger RNA (mRNA) and is decoded by YTH domain proteins1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The mammalian mRNA m6A methylosome is a complex of nuclear proteins that includes METTL3 (m... Read More about m6A potentiates Sxl alternative pre-mRNA splicing for robust Drosophila sex determination.

Modeling Enzyme Processivity Reveals that RNA-Seq Libraries Are Biased in Characteristic and Correctable Ways (2016)
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Archer, N., Walsh, M. D., Shahrezaei, V., & Hebenstreit, D. (2016). Modeling Enzyme Processivity Reveals that RNA-Seq Libraries Are Biased in Characteristic and Correctable Ways. Cell Systems, 3(5), 467-479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2016.10.012

© 2016 The Author(s) Experimental procedures for preparing RNA-seq and single-cell (sc) RNA-seq libraries are based on assumptions regarding their underlying enzymatic reactions. Here, we show that the fairness of these assumptions varies within libr... Read More about Modeling Enzyme Processivity Reveals that RNA-Seq Libraries Are Biased in Characteristic and Correctable Ways.

Yeast m6A Methylated mRNAs Are Enriched on Translating Ribosomes during Meiosis, and under Rapamycin Treatment (2015)
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May, S. T., Bodi, Z., Bottley, A., Archer, N., May, S., & Fray, R. G. (2015). Yeast m6A Methylated mRNAs Are Enriched on Translating Ribosomes during Meiosis, and under Rapamycin Treatment. PLoS ONE, 10(7), Article e0132090. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132090

Interest in mRNA methylation has exploded in recent years. The sudden interest in a 40 year old discovery was due in part to the finding of FTO’s (Fat Mass Obesity) N6-methyladenosine (m6 A) deaminase activity, thus suggesting a link between obesity-... Read More about Yeast m6A Methylated mRNAs Are Enriched on Translating Ribosomes during Meiosis, and under Rapamycin Treatment.