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Rapid host strain improvement by in vivo rearrangement of a synthetic yeast chromosome (2018)
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Blount, B. A., Gowers, G. F., Ho, J. C. H., Ledesma-Amaro, R., Jovicevic, D., McKiernan, R. M., …Ellis, T. (2018). Rapid host strain improvement by in vivo rearrangement of a synthetic yeast chromosome. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 1932. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03143-w

© 2018 The Author(s). Synthetic biology tools, such as modular parts and combinatorial DNA assembly, are routinely used to optimise the productivity of heterologous metabolic pathways for biosynthesis or substrate utilisation, yet it is well establis... Read More about Rapid host strain improvement by in vivo rearrangement of a synthetic yeast chromosome.

Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle (2018)
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Perrin, L., Loizides-Mangold, U., Chanon, S., Gobet, C., Hulo, N., Isenegger, L., …Dibner, C. (2018). Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle. eLife, 7, Article e34114. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.34114.001

Circadian regulation of transcriptional processes has a broad impact on cell metabolism. Here, we compared the diurnal transcriptome of human skeletal muscle conducted on serial muscle biopsies in vivo with profiles of human skeletal myotubes synchro... Read More about Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle.

Identification of Positive Allosteric Modulators of the D1 Dopamine Receptor That Act at Diverse Binding Sites (2018)
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Luderman, K. D., Conroy, J. L., Free, R. B., Southall, N., Ferrer, M., Sanchez-Soto, M., …Sibley, D. R. (2018). Identification of Positive Allosteric Modulators of the D1 Dopamine Receptor That Act at Diverse Binding Sites. Molecular Pharmacology, 94(4), 1197-1209. https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.118.113175

The D1 dopamine receptor is linked to a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders and represents an attractive drug target for the enhancement of cognition in schizophrenia, Alzheimer disease, and other disorders. Positive allosteric modulators (PAMs), w... Read More about Identification of Positive Allosteric Modulators of the D1 Dopamine Receptor That Act at Diverse Binding Sites.

Technical challenges of working with extracellular vesicles (2017)
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Ramirez, M. I., Amorim, M. G., Gadelha, C., Milic, I., Welsh, J. A., Freitas, V. M., …Dias-Neto, E. (2018). Technical challenges of working with extracellular vesicles. Nanoscale, 10(3), 881-906. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7nr08360b

© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are gaining interest as central players in liquid biopsies, with potential applications in diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic guidance in most pathological conditions. These nanosi... Read More about Technical challenges of working with extracellular vesicles.

Photoinhibition of FeFe hydrogenase (2017)
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Sensi, M., Baffert, C., Fradale, L., Gauquelin, C., Soucaille, P., Meynial-Salles, I., …Bertini, L. (2017). Photoinhibition of FeFe hydrogenase. ACS Catalysis, 7(10), 7378-7387. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.7b02252

© 2017 American Chemical Society. In the enzyme FeFe hydrogenase, hydrogen oxidation and production occur at the H-cluster, a Fe6S6 active site that bears intrinsic carbonyl and cyanide ligands. This enzyme has been coupled to photosensitizers to des... Read More about Photoinhibition of FeFe hydrogenase.

The genomic mosaicism of hybrid speciation (2017)
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Elgvin, T. O., Trier, C. N., Tørresen, O. K., Hagen, I. J., Lien, S., Nederbragt, A. J., …Sætre, G. P. (2017). The genomic mosaicism of hybrid speciation. Science Advances, 3(6), Article e1602996. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602996

Copyright © 2017 The Authors, some rights reserved. Hybridization is widespread in nature and, in some instances, can result in the formation of a new hybrid species. We investigate the genetic foundation of this poorly understood process through who... Read More about The genomic mosaicism of hybrid speciation.

Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution (2017)
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Stuart, Y. E., Veen, T., Weber, J. N., Hanson, D., Ravinet, M., Lohman, B. K., …Bolnick, D. I. (2017). Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1(6), Article 0158. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0158

© 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. Parallel evolution of similar traits by independent populations in similar environments is considered strong evidence for adaptation by natural selection. Often, howev... Read More about Contrasting effects of environment and genetics generate a continuum of parallel evolution.

Biosynthesis of the antibiotic nonribosomal peptide penicillin in baker’s yeast (2017)
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Awan, A. R., Blount, B. A., Bell, D. J., Shaw, W. M., Ho, J. C., McKiernan, R. M., & Ellis, T. (2017). Biosynthesis of the antibiotic nonribosomal peptide penicillin in baker’s yeast. Nature Communications, 8, Article 15202. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15202

© The Author(s) 2017. Fungi are a valuable source of enzymatic diversity and therapeutic natural products including antibiotics. Here we engineer the baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce and secrete the antibiotic penicillin, a beta-lact... Read More about Biosynthesis of the antibiotic nonribosomal peptide penicillin in baker’s yeast.

GC preps: Fast and easy extraction of stable yeast genomic DNA (2016)
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Blount, B. A., Driessen, M. R., & Ellis, T. (2016). GC preps: Fast and easy extraction of stable yeast genomic DNA. Scientific Reports, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26863

Existing yeast genomic DNA extraction methods are not ideally suited to extensive screening of colonies by PCR, due to being too lengthy, too laborious or yielding poor quality DNA and inconsistent results. We developed the GC prep method as a soluti... Read More about GC preps: Fast and easy extraction of stable yeast genomic DNA.

Wallerian degeneration is executed by an NMN-SARM1-dependent late Ca(2+) influx but only modestly influenced by mitochondria (2015)
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Loreto, A., Di Stefano, M., Gering, M., & Conforti, L. (2015). Wallerian degeneration is executed by an NMN-SARM1-dependent late Ca(2+) influx but only modestly influenced by mitochondria. Cell Reports, 13(11), 2539-2552. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2015.11.032

Axon injury leads to rapid depletion of NAD-biosynthetic enzyme NMNAT2 and high levels of its substrate, NMN. We proposed a key role for NMN in Wallerian degeneration but downstream events and their relationship to other mediators remain unclear. Her... Read More about Wallerian degeneration is executed by an NMN-SARM1-dependent late Ca(2+) influx but only modestly influenced by mitochondria.

Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis (2015)
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Akanni, W. A., Siu-Ting, K., Creevey, C. J., McInerney, J. O., Wilkinson, M., Foster, P. G., & Pisani, D. (2015). Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 370(1678), Article 20140337. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0337

© 2015 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. The origin of the eukaryotic cell is considered one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life. Current evidence strongly supports a scenario of eukaryotic or... Read More about Horizontal gene flow from Eubacteria to Archaebacteria and what it means for our understanding of eukaryogenesis.

Electrochemical Measurements of the Kinetics of Inhibition of Two FeFe Hydrogenases by O2 Demonstrate That the Reaction Is Partly Reversible (2015)
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Orain, C., Saujet, L., Gauquelin, C., Soucaille, P., Meynial-Salles, I., Baffert, C., …Léger, C. (2015). Electrochemical Measurements of the Kinetics of Inhibition of Two FeFe Hydrogenases by O2 Demonstrate That the Reaction Is Partly Reversible. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(39), 12580-12587. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b06934

© 2015 American Chemical Society. The mechanism of reaction of FeFe hydrogenases with oxygen has been debated. It is complex, apparently very dependent on the details of the protein structure, and difficult to study using conventional kinetic techniq... Read More about Electrochemical Measurements of the Kinetics of Inhibition of Two FeFe Hydrogenases by O2 Demonstrate That the Reaction Is Partly Reversible.

A potential role for cannabinoid receptors in the therapeutic action of fenofibrate (2014)
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Priestley, R. S., Nickolls, S. A., Alexander, S. P. H., & Kendall, D. A. (2015). A potential role for cannabinoid receptors in the therapeutic action of fenofibrate. FASEB Journal, 29(4), 1446-1455. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.14-263053

Cannabinoids are reported to have actions through peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs), which led us to investigate PPAR agonists for activity at the cannabinoid receptors. Radio-ligand binding and functional assays were conducted usin... Read More about A potential role for cannabinoid receptors in the therapeutic action of fenofibrate.

In vitroevaluation of biomimetic chitosan–calcium phosphate scaffolds with potential application in bone tissue engineering (2013)
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Tanase, C. E., Sartoris, A., Popa, M. I., Verestiuc, L., Unger, R. E., & Kirkpatrick, C. J. (2013). In vitroevaluation of biomimetic chitosan–calcium phosphate scaffolds with potential application in bone tissue engineering. Biomedical Materials, 8(2), Article 025002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-6041/8/2/025002

This work reports on the physicochemical properties and in vitro cytotoxicity assessment of chitosan–calcium phosphate (Cs–CP) scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, which were synthesized by a novel biomimetic co-precipitation method. X-ray diffract... Read More about In vitroevaluation of biomimetic chitosan–calcium phosphate scaffolds with potential application in bone tissue engineering.

Methicillin resistance reduces the virulence of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus by interfering with the agr quorum sensing system (2012)
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Rudkin, J. K., Edwards, A. M., Bowden, M. G., Brown, E. L., Pozzi, C., Waters, E. M., …Massey, R. C. (2012). Methicillin resistance reduces the virulence of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus by interfering with the agr quorum sensing system. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 205(5), 798-806. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jir845

The difficulty in successfully treating infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has led to them being referred to as highly virulent or pathogenic. In our study of one of the major healthcare-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA)... Read More about Methicillin resistance reduces the virulence of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus by interfering with the agr quorum sensing system.