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Electronic cigarette vapour moderately stimulates pro-inflammatory signalling pathways and interleukin-6 production by human monocyte-derived dendritic cells (2020)
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Chen, I. L., Todd, I., Tighe, P. J., & Fairclough, L. C. (2020). Electronic cigarette vapour moderately stimulates pro-inflammatory signalling pathways and interleukin-6 production by human monocyte-derived dendritic cells. Archives of Toxicology, 94(6), 2097-2112 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-020-02757-8

© 2020, The Author(s). Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen presenting cells that play a critical role in bridging innate and adaptive immunity. Numerous studies have shown that tobacco constituents present in conventional cigarettes affect... Read More about Electronic cigarette vapour moderately stimulates pro-inflammatory signalling pathways and interleukin-6 production by human monocyte-derived dendritic cells.

The Calcineurin-TFEB-p62 Pathway Mediates the Activation of Cardiac Macroautophagy by Proteasomal Malfunction (2020)
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Pan, B., Li, J., Parajuli, N., Tian, Z., Wu, P., Lewno, M. T., …Wang, X. (2020). The Calcineurin-TFEB-p62 Pathway Mediates the Activation of Cardiac Macroautophagy by Proteasomal Malfunction. Circulation Research, 127(4), 502–518. https://doi.org/10.1161/circresaha.119.316007

Rationale: The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and the autophagic-lysosomal pathway (ALP) are pivotal to proteostasis. Targeting these pathways is emerging as an attractive strategy for treating cancer. However, a significant proportion of patients... Read More about The Calcineurin-TFEB-p62 Pathway Mediates the Activation of Cardiac Macroautophagy by Proteasomal Malfunction.

Heterodimeric Analogues of the Potent Y1R Antagonist 1229U91, Lacking One of the Pharmacophoric C-Terminal Structures, Retain Potent Y1R Affinity and Show Improved Selectivity over Y4R (2020)
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Richardson, R. R., Richardson, R., Groenen, M., Liu, M., Mountford, S. J., Briddon, S. J., …Thompson, P. E. (2020). Heterodimeric Analogues of the Potent Y1R Antagonist 1229U91, Lacking One of the Pharmacophoric C-Terminal Structures, Retain Potent Y1R Affinity and Show Improved Selectivity over Y4R. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 63(10), 5274-5286. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00027

The cyclic dimeric peptide 1229U91 (GR231118) has an unusual structure and displays potent, insurmountable antagonism of the Y1 receptor. To probe the structural basis for this activity, we have prepared ring size variants and heterodimeric compounds... Read More about Heterodimeric Analogues of the Potent Y1R Antagonist 1229U91, Lacking One of the Pharmacophoric C-Terminal Structures, Retain Potent Y1R Affinity and Show Improved Selectivity over Y4R.

The effects of knock-down resistance mutations and alternative splicing on voltage-gated sodium channels in Musca domestica and Drosophila melanogaster (2020)
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Thompson, A. J., Verdin, P. S., Burton, M. J., Davies, T. G., Williamson, M. S., Field, L. M., …Duce, I. R. (2020). The effects of knock-down resistance mutations and alternative splicing on voltage-gated sodium channels in Musca domestica and Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 122, Article 103388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibmb.2020.103388

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) are a major target site for the action of pyrethroid insecticides and resistance to pyrethroids has been ascribed to mutations in the VGSC gene. VGSCs in insects are encoded by only one gene a... Read More about The effects of knock-down resistance mutations and alternative splicing on voltage-gated sodium channels in Musca domestica and Drosophila melanogaster.

Hit Identification of New Potent PqsR Antagonists as Inhibitors of Quorum Sensing in Planktonic and Biofilm Grown Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2020)
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Soukarieh, F., Liu, R., Romero, M., Roberston, S. N., Richardson, W., Lucanto, S., …Stocks, M. J. (2020). Hit Identification of New Potent PqsR Antagonists as Inhibitors of Quorum Sensing in Planktonic and Biofilm Grown Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Frontiers in Chemistry, 8, Article 204. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00204

© Copyright © 2020 Soukarieh, Liu, Romero, Roberston, Richardson, Lucanto, Oton, Qudus, Mashabi, Grossman, Ali, Sou, Kukavica-Ibrulj, Levesque, Bergström, Halliday, Mistry, Emsley, Heeb, Williams, Cámara and Stocks. Current treatments for Pseudomonas... Read More about Hit Identification of New Potent PqsR Antagonists as Inhibitors of Quorum Sensing in Planktonic and Biofilm Grown Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Effect of herbage density, height and age on nutrient and invertebrate generalist predator abundance in permanent and temporary pastures (2020)
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Toupet, R., Gibbons, A. T., Goodacre, S. L., & Bell, M. J. (2020). Effect of herbage density, height and age on nutrient and invertebrate generalist predator abundance in permanent and temporary pastures. Land, 9(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/LAND9050164

© 2020 by the authors. The aim of this research was to assess differences in the quantity and quality of herbage and invertebrate generalist predator abundance among permanent and temporary pastures. Two permanent pastures and four temporary ley past... Read More about Effect of herbage density, height and age on nutrient and invertebrate generalist predator abundance in permanent and temporary pastures.

Suramin exposure alters cellular metabolism and mitochondrial energy production in African trypanosomes (2020)
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Zoltner, M., Campagnaro, G. D., Taleva, G., Burrell, A., Cerone, M., Leung, K. F., …Field, M. C. (2020). Suramin exposure alters cellular metabolism and mitochondrial energy production in African trypanosomes. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 295(24), 8331-8347. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.ra120.012355

© 2020 Zoltner et al. Introduced about a century ago, suramin remains a frontline drug for the management of early-stage East African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). Cellular entry into the causative agent, the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma bru... Read More about Suramin exposure alters cellular metabolism and mitochondrial energy production in African trypanosomes.

CDK12 inhibition reduces abnormalities in cells from patients with myotonic dystrophy and in a mouse model (2020)
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Ketley, A., Wojciechowska, M., Ghidelli-Disse, S., Bamborough, P., Ghosh, T. K., Morato, M. L., …Brook, J. D. (2020). CDK12 inhibition reduces abnormalities in cells from patients with myotonic dystrophy and in a mouse model. Science Translational Medicine, 12(541), Article eaaz2415. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaz2415

Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is an RNA-based disease with no current treatment.... Read More about CDK12 inhibition reduces abnormalities in cells from patients with myotonic dystrophy and in a mouse model.

Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation (2020)
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Vassey, M. J., Figueredo, G. P., Scurr, D. J., Vasilevich, A. S., Vermeulen, S., Carlier, A., …Alexander, M. R. (2020). Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation. Advanced Science, 7(11), https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201903392

© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Macrophages play a central role in orchestrating immune responses to foreign materials, which are often responsible for the failure of implanted medical devices. Material t... Read More about Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation.

Mitochondrial survivin reduces oxidative phosphorylation in cancer cells by inhibiting mitophagy. (2020)
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Wheatley, S., & Townley, A. R. Mitochondrial survivin reduces oxidative phosphorylation in cancer cells by inhibiting mitophagy

Survivin is a cancer-associated protein that is pivotal for cellular life and death: it is an essential mitotic protein and an inhibitor of apoptosis. In cancer cells, a small pool of survivin localises to the mitochondria, the function of which rema... Read More about Mitochondrial survivin reduces oxidative phosphorylation in cancer cells by inhibiting mitophagy..

Perioperative nutrition: Recommendations from the ESPEN expert group (2020)
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Lobo, D. N., Gianotti, L., Adiamah, A., Barazzoni, R., Deutz, N., Dhatariya, K., …Weimann, A. (2020). Perioperative nutrition: Recommendations from the ESPEN expert group. Clinical Nutrition, 39(11), 3211-3227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2020.03.038

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd and European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Background & aims: Malnutrition has been recognized as a major risk factor for adverse postoperative outcomes. The ESPEN Symposium on perioperative nutrition was held in N... Read More about Perioperative nutrition: Recommendations from the ESPEN expert group.

Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose (2020)
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van Munster, J. M., Daly, P., Blythe, M. J., Ibbett, R., Kokolski, M., Gaddipati, S., …Archer, D. B. (2020). Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 13(1), Article 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-020-01702-2

Background Understanding how fungi degrade lignocellulose is a cornerstone of improving renewables-based biotechnology, in particular for the production of hydrolytic enzymes. Considerable progress has been made in investigating fungal degradation d... Read More about Succession of physiological stages hallmarks the transcriptomic response of the fungus Aspergillus niger to lignocellulose.

Case for continuing community NIV and CPAP during the COVID-19 epidemic (2020)
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Baker, J. G., & Sovani, M. P. (2020). Case for continuing community NIV and CPAP during the COVID-19 epidemic. Thorax, 75(5), 368-368. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-214913

Dear Editor, Recent clinical guidelines regarding the use of home non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) during the COVID-19 epidemic have tried to balance the risks of stopping NIV or CPAP against the unknown p... Read More about Case for continuing community NIV and CPAP during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Inhibition of neuroinflammatory nitric oxide signalling supresses protein glycation and recovers neuronal dysfunction in prion disease (2020)
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Bourgognon, J., Spiers, J. G., Robinson, S., Scheiblich, H., Ortori, C., Bradley, S. J., …Steinert, J. Inhibition of neuroinflammatory nitric oxide signalling supresses protein glycation and recovers neuronal dysfunction in prion disease

Background: Several neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein misfolding (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease) exhibit oxidative and nitrergic stress following initiation of neuroinflammatory pathways. Associated nitric oxide (NO)-mediated post... Read More about Inhibition of neuroinflammatory nitric oxide signalling supresses protein glycation and recovers neuronal dysfunction in prion disease.

Phosphoproteomic characterization of the signaling network resulting from activation of chemokine receptor CCR2 (2020)
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Huang, C., Foster, S. R., Shah, A. D., Kleifeld, O., Canals, M., Schittenhelm, R. B., & Stone, M. J. (2020). Phosphoproteomic characterization of the signaling network resulting from activation of chemokine receptor CCR2. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 295, 6518-6531. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.ra119.012026

Leukocyte recruitment is a universal feature of tissue inflammation and regulated by the interactions of chemokines with their G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Activation of CC chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2) by its cognate chemokine ligands, includi... Read More about Phosphoproteomic characterization of the signaling network resulting from activation of chemokine receptor CCR2.

Timing impairments in early Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a mouse model (2020)
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Armstrong, P., Pardon, M. C., & Bonardi, C. (2020). Timing impairments in early Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a mouse model. Behavioral Neuroscience, 134(2), 82-100. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000359

A key characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is loss of episodic memory-memory for what happened, where and when; this final aspect-timing-is the focus of the present article. Although timing deficits have been reported in AD patients, few parall... Read More about Timing impairments in early Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from a mouse model.

Red-Emitting Dibenzodiazepinone Derivatives as Fluorescent Dualsteric Probes for the Muscarinic Acetylcholine M2 Receptor (2020)
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She, X., Pegoli, A., Gruber, C. G., Wifling, D., Carpenter, J., Hübner, H., …Keller, M. (2020). Red-Emitting Dibenzodiazepinone Derivatives as Fluorescent Dualsteric Probes for the Muscarinic Acetylcholine M2 Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 63(8), 4133-4154. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b02172

Fluorescently labeled dibenzodiazepinone-type muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (MR) antagonists, including dimeric ligands, were prepared using red-emitting cyanine dyes. Probes containing a fluorophore with negative charge showed high M2R affinitie... Read More about Red-Emitting Dibenzodiazepinone Derivatives as Fluorescent Dualsteric Probes for the Muscarinic Acetylcholine M2 Receptor.

Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middle-income countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models (2020)
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Stephan, B. C., Pakpahan, E., Siervo, M., Licher, S., Muniz-Terrera, G., Mohan, D., …Prina, M. (2020). Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middle-income countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models. Lancet Global Health, 8(4), Article e524 - e535. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x%2820%2930062-0

Background To date, dementia prediction models have been exclusively developed and tested in high-income countries (HICs). However, most people with dementia live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), where dementia risk prediction rese... Read More about Prediction of dementia risk in low-income and middle-income countries (the 10/66 Study): an independent external validation of existing models.

Localized Hypermutation is the Major Driver of Meningococcal Genetic Variability during Persistent Asymptomatic Carriage (2020)
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Bayliss, C. D., Green, L. R., Al-Rubaiawi, A. A., Oldfield, N. J., Turner, D. P. J., Al-Maeni, M. A. R. M., …Maiden, M. C. J. (2020). Localized Hypermutation is the Major Driver of Meningococcal Genetic Variability during Persistent Asymptomatic Carriage. mBio, 11(2), Article e03068-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03068-19

Host persistence of bacteria is facilitated by mutational and recombina-torial processes that counteract loss of genetic variation during transmission and selection from evolving host responses. Genetic variation was investigated during persistent as... Read More about Localized Hypermutation is the Major Driver of Meningococcal Genetic Variability during Persistent Asymptomatic Carriage.

Design, synthesis and evaluation of E2-25K derived stapled peptides (2020)
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Watson, M. E., Scott, D., Jamieson, C., Layfield, R., & Mason, A. M. (2021). Design, synthesis and evaluation of E2-25K derived stapled peptides. Peptide Science, 113(1), Article e24158. https://doi.org/10.1002/pep2.24158

© 2020 The Authors. Peptide Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Stabilised peptides are now established as potential drug candidates to probe previously intractable molecular targets, such as protein-protein interactions. Herein, we report t... Read More about Design, synthesis and evaluation of E2-25K derived stapled peptides.