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Insights of biosurfactant producing Serratia marcescens strain W2.3 isolated from diseased tilapia fish: a draft genome analysis (2013)
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Chan, X. Y., Chang, C. Y., Hong, K. W., Tee, K. K., Yin, W. F., & Chan, K. G. (2013). Insights of biosurfactant producing Serratia marcescens strain W2.3 isolated from diseased tilapia fish: a draft genome analysis. Gut Pathogens, 5(Octobe), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-5-29

Background Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen with broad range of host ranging from vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. S. marcescens strain W2.3 was isolated from a diseased tilapia fish and it was suspected to be the cau... Read More about Insights of biosurfactant producing Serratia marcescens strain W2.3 isolated from diseased tilapia fish: a draft genome analysis.

Immunity protein release from a cell-bound nuclease colicin complex requires global conformational rearrangement (2013)
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Vankemmelbeke, M., Housden, N. G., James, R., Kleanthous, C., & Penfold, C. N. (2013). Immunity protein release from a cell-bound nuclease colicin complex requires global conformational rearrangement. Microbiology Open, 2(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.122

Nuclease colicins bind their target receptor BtuB in the outer membrane of sensitive Escherichia coli cells in the form of a high-affinity complex with their cognate immunity proteins. The release of the immunity protein from the colicin complex is a... Read More about Immunity protein release from a cell-bound nuclease colicin complex requires global conformational rearrangement.

Structural basis for native agonist and synthetic inhibitor recognition by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing regulator PqsR (MvfR) (2013)
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Ilangovan, A., Fletcher, M., Rampioni, G., Pustelny, C., Rumbaugh, K., Heeb, S., …Williams, P. (2013). Structural basis for native agonist and synthetic inhibitor recognition by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing regulator PqsR (MvfR). PLoS Pathogens, 9(7), Article e1003508. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003508

Bacterial populations co-ordinate gene expression collectively through quorum sensing (QS), a cell-to-cell communication mechanism employing diffusible signal molecules. The LysR-type transcriptional regulator (LTTR) protein PqsR (MvfR) is a key comp... Read More about Structural basis for native agonist and synthetic inhibitor recognition by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing regulator PqsR (MvfR).

Prevalence and phase variable expression status of two autotransporters, NalP and MspA, in carriage and disease isolates of Neisseria meningitidis (2013)
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Oldfield, N. J., Matar, S., Bidmos, F. A., Alamro, M., Neal, K. R., Turner, D. P., …Ala'Aldeen, D. A. (2013). Prevalence and phase variable expression status of two autotransporters, NalP and MspA, in carriage and disease isolates of Neisseria meningitidis. PLoS ONE, 8(7), Article e69746. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069746

Neisseria meningitidis is a human nasopharyngeal commensal capable of causing life-threatening septicemia and meningitis. Many meningococcal surface structures, including the autotransporter proteins NalP and MspA, are subject to phase variation (PV)... Read More about Prevalence and phase variable expression status of two autotransporters, NalP and MspA, in carriage and disease isolates of Neisseria meningitidis.

Are DNA repair factors promising biomarkers for personalized therapy in gastric cancer? (2013)
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Abdel-Fatah, T., Arora, A., Gorguc, I., Abbotts, R., Beebeejaun, S., Storr, S. J., …Madhusudan, S. (2013). Are DNA repair factors promising biomarkers for personalized therapy in gastric cancer?. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling, 18(18), https://doi.org/10.1089/ars.2012.4873

Chronic inflammation is a driving force for gastric carcinogenesis. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated during the inflammatory process generates DNA damage that is processed through the DNA repair pathways. In this study, we profiled key DNA rep... Read More about Are DNA repair factors promising biomarkers for personalized therapy in gastric cancer?.

Lung cancer diagnosed following emergency admission: a mixed methods study protocol to improve understanding of patients’ characteristics, needs, experiences and outcomes (2013)
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Wilcock, A., Crosby, V., Freer, S., Freemantle, A., Caswell, G., & Seymour, J. (2013). Lung cancer diagnosed following emergency admission: a mixed methods study protocol to improve understanding of patients’ characteristics, needs, experiences and outcomes. BMC Palliative Care, 12(May), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-12-24

Background Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in England. About 40% of patients with lung cancer are diagnosed following an emergency admission (DFEA) to hospital. DFEA is more common in women, and more likely with increasing age... Read More about Lung cancer diagnosed following emergency admission: a mixed methods study protocol to improve understanding of patients’ characteristics, needs, experiences and outcomes.

Discovery of novel materials with broad resistance to bacterial attachment using combinatorial polymer microarrays (2013)
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Hook, A. L., Chang, C., Yang, J., Atkinson, S., Langer, R., Anderson, D. G., …Alexander, M. R. (2013). Discovery of novel materials with broad resistance to bacterial attachment using combinatorial polymer microarrays. Advanced Materials, 25(18), https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201204936

A new class of bacteria-attachment-resistant materials is discovered using a multi-generation polymer microarray methodology that reduces bacterial attachment by up to 99.3% compared with a leading commercially available silver hydrogel anti-bacteria... Read More about Discovery of novel materials with broad resistance to bacterial attachment using combinatorial polymer microarrays.

SPROUTY2 is a ?-catenin and FOXO3a target gene indicative of poor prognosis in colon cancer (2013)
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Ordóñez-Morán, P., Irmisch, A., Barbáchano, A., Chicote, I., Tenbaum, S., Landolfi, S., …Pálmer, H. G. (2014). SPROUTY2 is a β-catenin and FOXO3a target gene indicative of poor prognosis in colon cancer. Oncogene, 33(15), 1975-1985. https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2013.140

SPROUTY2 (SPRY2) is an intracellular regulator of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling involved in cell growth, differentiation and tumorigenesis. Here, we show that SPRY2 is a target gene of the Wnt/?-catenin pathway that is abnormally activated in mo... Read More about SPROUTY2 is a ?-catenin and FOXO3a target gene indicative of poor prognosis in colon cancer.

Molecular networks of human muscle adaptation to exercise and age (2013)
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Phillips, B. E., Williams, J. P., Gustafsson, T., Bouchard, C., Rankinen, T., Knudsen, S., …Atherton, P. J. (2013). Molecular networks of human muscle adaptation to exercise and age. PLoS Genetics, 9(3), Article e1003389. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003389

Physical activity and molecular ageing presumably interact to precipitate musculoskeletal decline in humans with age. Herein, we have delineated molecular networks for these two major components of sarcopenic risk using multiple independent clinical... Read More about Molecular networks of human muscle adaptation to exercise and age.

Differential activation of killer cells in the circulation and the lung: a study of current smoking status and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (2013)
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Wang, J., Urbanowicz, R. A., Tighe, P. J., Todd, I., Corne, J. M., & Fairclough, L. C. (2013). Differential activation of killer cells in the circulation and the lung: a study of current smoking status and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). PLoS ONE, 8(3), Article e58556. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058556

Background:CD8+ T-lymphocytes, natural killer T-like cells (NKT-like cells, CD56+CD3+) and natural killer cells (NK cells, CD56+CD3?) are the three main classes of human killer cells and they are implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive... Read More about Differential activation of killer cells in the circulation and the lung: a study of current smoking status and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related (ATR) protein kinase inhibition is synthetically lethal in XRCC1 deficient ovarian cancer cells (2013)
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Sultana, R., Abdel-Fatah, T., Perry, C., Moseley, P., Albarakti, N., Mohan, V., …Madhusudan, S. (2013). Ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related (ATR) protein kinase inhibition is synthetically lethal in XRCC1 deficient ovarian cancer cells. PLoS ONE, 8(2), Article e57098. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057098

Introduction Ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 Related (ATR) protein kinase is a key sensor of single-stranded DNA associated with stalled replication forks and repair intermediates generated during DNA repair. XRCC1 is a critical enzyme in sin... Read More about Ataxia telangiectasia mutated and Rad3 related (ATR) protein kinase inhibition is synthetically lethal in XRCC1 deficient ovarian cancer cells.

Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory? (2013)
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Harrison, F. (2013). Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?. BioEssays, 35(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201200154

Individual bacterial cells can communicate via quorum sensing, cooperate to harvest nutrients from their environment, form multicellular biofilms, compete over resources and even kill one another. When the environment that bacteria inhabit is an anim... Read More about Bacterial cooperation in the wild and in the clinic: are pathogen social behaviours relevant outside the laboratory?.