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Mitotic activity of survivin is regulated by acetylation at K129 (2015)
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Aljaberi, A. M., Webster, J. R., & Wheatley, S. P. (2015). Mitotic activity of survivin is regulated by acetylation at K129. Cell Cycle, 14(11), https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2015.1033597

Survivin is a cancer-associated protein regulated by multiple factors, including acetylation at K129 within its C-terminal alpha-helical tail. Acetylation of survivin is being pursued as a potential prognostic marker in breast cancer. This modificat... Read More about Mitotic activity of survivin is regulated by acetylation at K129.

Symbiotic and antibiotic interactions between gut commensal microbiota and host immune system (2015)
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Malys, M. K., Campbell, L., & Malys, N. (2015). Symbiotic and antibiotic interactions between gut commensal microbiota and host immune system. Medicina, 51(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medici.2015.03.001

The human gut commensal microbiota forms a complex population of microorganisms that survive by maintaining a symbiotic relationship with the host. Amongst the metabolic benefits it brings, formation of adaptive immune system and maintenance of its h... Read More about Symbiotic and antibiotic interactions between gut commensal microbiota and host immune system.

Ion mobility-mass spectrometry reveals conformational flexibility in the deubiquitinating enzyme USP5 (2015)
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Scott, D., Layfield, R., & Oldham, N. J. (2015). Ion mobility-mass spectrometry reveals conformational flexibility in the deubiquitinating enzyme USP5. Proteomics, 15(16), https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201400457

Many proteins exhibit conformation flexibility as part of their biological function, whether through the presence of a series of well-defined states or by the existence of intrinsic disorder. Ion mobility spectrometry, in combination with MS (IM–MS),... Read More about Ion mobility-mass spectrometry reveals conformational flexibility in the deubiquitinating enzyme USP5.

The functional repertoire of survivin's tails (2015)
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Wheatley, S. P. (2015). The functional repertoire of survivin's tails. Cell Cycle, 14(2), https://doi.org/10.4161/15384101.2014.979680

Survivin is a multitasking protein that can inhibit cell death and that is essential for mitosis. Due to these prosurvival activities and the correlation of its expression with tumour resistance to conventional cancer treatments, survivin has receive... Read More about The functional repertoire of survivin's tails.

Molecular insights into DNA interference by CRISPR-associated nuclease-helicase Cas3 (2014)
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Gong, B., Shin, M., Sun, J., Jung, C., Bolt, E. L., van der oost, J., & Kim, J. (2014). Molecular insights into DNA interference by CRISPR-associated nuclease-helicase Cas3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(46), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1410806111

Mobile genetic elements in bacteria are neutralized by a system based on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins. Type I CRISPR-Cas systems use a “Cascade” ribonucleoprotein complex to... Read More about Molecular insights into DNA interference by CRISPR-associated nuclease-helicase Cas3.

Analysis of the functional repertoire of a mutant form of survivin, K129E, which has been linked to lung cancer (2014)
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Aljaberi, A. M., Webster, J. R., & Wheatley, S. P. (in press). Analysis of the functional repertoire of a mutant form of survivin, K129E, which has been linked to lung cancer. Cancer Cell International, 14, Article 78. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-014-0078-8

Background Survivin is a protein that is normally present only in G2 and M-phases in somatic cells, however, in cancer cells, it is expressed throughout the cell cycle. A prosurvival factor, survivin is both an inhibitor of apoptosis and an essentia... Read More about Analysis of the functional repertoire of a mutant form of survivin, K129E, which has been linked to lung cancer.

Etiology of the membrane potential of rat white fat adipocytes (2014)
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Bentley, D. C., Pulbutr, P., Chan, S., & Smith, P. A. (2014). Etiology of the membrane potential of rat white fat adipocytes. AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, 307(2), E161-E175. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00446.2013

The plasma membrane potential (Vm) is key to many physiological processes, however its ionic aetiology in white fat adipocytes is poorly characterised. To address this question, we have employed the perforated patch current-clamp and cell-attached pa... Read More about Etiology of the membrane potential of rat white fat adipocytes.

Novel hypoglycemic injury mechanism: N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated white matter damage (2014)
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Yang, X., Hamner, M. A., Brown, A. M., Evans, R. D., Ye, Z., Chen, S., & Ransom, B. R. (2014). Novel hypoglycemic injury mechanism: N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated white matter damage. Annals of Neurology, 75(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.24050

Objective: Hypoglycemia is a common adverse event and can injure central nervous system (CNS) white matter (WM). We determined if glutamate receptors were involved in hypoglycemic WM injury. Methods: Mouse optic nerves (MON), CNS WM tracts, were mai... Read More about Novel hypoglycemic injury mechanism: N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated white matter damage.

Transient transcriptional events in human skeletal muscle at the outset of concentric resistance exercise training (2014)
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Murton, A. J., Billeter, R., Stephens, F. B., Des Etages, S., Graber, F., Hill, R., …Greenhaff, P. L. (2014). Transient transcriptional events in human skeletal muscle at the outset of concentric resistance exercise training. Journal of Applied Physiology, 116(1), https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00426.2013

We sought to ascertain the time course of transcriptional events that occur in human skeletal muscle at the outset of resistance exercise (RE) training in RE naive individuals and determine whether the magnitude of response was associated with exerci... Read More about Transient transcriptional events in human skeletal muscle at the outset of concentric resistance exercise training.

Surgical resection of primary tumour improves aerobic performance in colorectal cancer (2013)
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Williams, J. P., Nyasavajjala, S. M., Phillips, B. E., Chakrabarty, M., & Lund, J. N. (2014). Surgical resection of primary tumour improves aerobic performance in colorectal cancer. EJSO - European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 40(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2013.11.009

Background Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK, with patients suffering declines in muscle mass and aerobic function. We hypothesised that tumour removal in non-metastatic colorectal cancer would lead to a restoration of le... Read More about Surgical resection of primary tumour improves aerobic performance in colorectal cancer.

Pharmacological enhancement of leg and muscle microvascular blood flow does not augment anabolic responses in skeletal muscle of young men under fed conditions (2013)
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Phillips, B. E., Atherton, P. J., Varadhan, K., Wilkinson, D. J., Limb, M. C., Selby, A. L., …Williams, J. P. (2014). Pharmacological enhancement of leg and muscle microvascular blood flow does not augment anabolic responses in skeletal muscle of young men under fed conditions. AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, 306(2), Article E168-E176. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00440.2013

Skeletal muscle anabolism associated with postprandial plasma aminoacidemia and insulinemia is contingent upon amino acids (AA) and insulin crossing the microcirculation-myocyte interface. In this study, we hypothesized that increasing muscle microva... Read More about Pharmacological enhancement of leg and muscle microvascular blood flow does not augment anabolic responses in skeletal muscle of young men under fed conditions.

The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY: an expert-driven knowledgebase of drug targets and their ligands (2013)
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Pawson, A. J., Sharman, J. L., Benson, H. E., Faccenda, E., Alexander, S. P., Buneman, O. P., …Harmar, A. J. (2014). The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY: an expert-driven knowledgebase of drug targets and their ligands. Nucleic Acids Research, 42(D1), Article D1098-D1106. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt1143

The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology/British Pharmacological Society (IUPHAR/BPS) Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (http://www.guidetopharmacology.org) is a new open access resource providing pharmacological, chemical, genetic, functional... Read More about The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY: an expert-driven knowledgebase of drug targets and their ligands.

Impact of polymorphic variants on the molecular pharmacology of the two-agonist conformations of the human ?1-adrenoceptor (2013)
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Baker, J. G., Hill, S. J., & Proudman, R. G. (2013). Impact of polymorphic variants on the molecular pharmacology of the two-agonist conformations of the human ?1-adrenoceptor. PLoS ONE, 8(11), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077582

?-blockers are widely used to improve symptoms and prolong life in heart disease primarily by inhibiting the actions of endogenous catecholamines at the ?1-adrenoceptor. There are two common naturally occurring polymorphisms within the human ?1-adren... Read More about Impact of polymorphic variants on the molecular pharmacology of the two-agonist conformations of the human ?1-adrenoceptor.

Increased function of pronociceptive TRPV1 at the level of the joint in a rat model of osteoarthritis pain (2013)
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Kelly, S., Chapman, R., Woodhams, S., Sagar, D. R., Turner, J., Burston, J., …Chapman, V. (2014). Increased function of pronociceptive TRPV1 at the level of the joint in a rat model of osteoarthritis pain. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74, https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203413

Objectives Blockade of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) with systemic antagonists attenuates osteoarthritis (OA) pain behaviour in rat models, but on-target-mediated hyperthermia has halted clinical trials. The present study investiga... Read More about Increased function of pronociceptive TRPV1 at the level of the joint in a rat model of osteoarthritis pain.

Identification of multiple binding sites for the THAP domain of the Galileo transposase in the long terminal inverted-repeats (2013)
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Marzo, M., Liu, D., Ruiz, A., & Chalmers, R. (2013). Identification of multiple binding sites for the THAP domain of the Galileo transposase in the long terminal inverted-repeats. Gene, 525(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2013.04.050

Galileo is a DNA transposon responsible for the generation of several chromosomal inversions in Drosophila. In contrast to other members of the P-element superfamily, it has unusually long terminal inverted-repeats (TIRs) that resemble those of Foldb... Read More about Identification of multiple binding sites for the THAP domain of the Galileo transposase in the long terminal inverted-repeats.

Synthesis and in vitro and in vivo characterization of highly ?1-Selective ?-Adrenoceptor partial agonists (2013)
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Mistry, S. N., Baker, J. G., Fischer, P. M., Hill, S. J., Gardiner, S. M., & Kellam, B. (2013). Synthesis and in vitro and in vivo characterization of highly ?1-Selective ?-Adrenoceptor partial agonists. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 56(10), https://doi.org/10.1021/jm400348g

β-Adrenoceptor antagonists boast a 50-year use for symptomatic control in numerous cardiovascular diseases. One might expect highly selective antagonists are available for the human β-adrenoceptor subtype involved in these diseases, yet few truly β1-... Read More about Synthesis and in vitro and in vivo characterization of highly ?1-Selective ?-Adrenoceptor partial agonists.

Heavy and light roles: myosin in the morphogenesis of the heart (2013)
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England, J., & Loughna, S. (2013). Heavy and light roles: myosin in the morphogenesis of the heart. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 70(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-012-1131-1

Myosin is an essential component of cardiac muscle, from the onset of cardiogenesis through to the adult heart. Although traditionally known for its role in energy transduction and force development, recent studies suggest that both myosin heavy-cha... Read More about Heavy and light roles: myosin in the morphogenesis of the heart.

D-amphetamine and antipsychotic drug effects on latent inhibition in mice lacking dopamine D2 receptors (2013)
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Bay-Richter, C., O'Callaghan, M., Mathur, N., O'Tuathaigh, C., Heery, D., Fone, K. C., …Moran, P. (in press). D-amphetamine and antipsychotic drug effects on latent inhibition in mice lacking dopamine D2 receptors. Neuropsychopharmacology, 38(8), https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2013.50

Drugs that induce psychosis, such as D-amphetamine (AMP), and those that alleviate it, such as antipsychotics, are suggested to exert behavioral effects via dopamine receptor D2 (D2). All antipsychotic drugs are D2 antagonists, but D2 antagonism und... Read More about D-amphetamine and antipsychotic drug effects on latent inhibition in mice lacking dopamine D2 receptors.