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Genetic Characteristics of Human Parainfluenza Virus Types 1–4 From Patients With Clinical Respiratory Tract Infection in China

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIV1–4) cause acute respiratory tract infections, thereby impacting human health worldwide. However, there are no current effective antivirals or licensed vaccines for infection prevention. Moreover, sequence information for
Nan Shao, Bo Liu, Yan Xiao, Yan Xiao, Xinming Wang, Lili Ren, Lili Ren, Jie Dong, Lilian Sun, Yafang Zhu, Ting Zhang, Fan Yang   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

ESM ‐scan—A tool to guide amino acid substitutions

Protein Science, 2023
Abstract Protein structure prediction and (re)design have gone through a revolution in the last 3 years. The tremendous progress in these fields has been almost exclusively driven by readily available machine learning algorithms applied to protein folding and sequence design problems.
Massimo G. Totaro, Uršula Vide, Regina Zausinger, Andreas Winkler, Gustav Oberdorfer   +4 more
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KIR2DL2/2DL3-E(35) alleles are functionally stronger than -Q(35) alleles. [PDF]

, 2016
KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL3 segregate as alleles of a single locus in the centromeric motif of the killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) gene family. Although KIR2DL2/L3 polymorphism is known to be associated with many human diseases and is an important
Bao, Ju, Bari, Rafijul, Leung, Wing, Li, Ying, Thapa, Rajoo, Zheng, Jie   +5 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Different Sites of Alcohol Action in the NMDA Receptor GluN2A and GluN2B Subunits [PDF]

, 2015
The NMDA receptor is a major target of alcohol action in the CNS, and recent behavioral and cellular studies have pointed to the importance of the GluN2B subunit in alcohol action.
Allgaier, Alvestad, Anders, Anders, Boyce-Rustay, Chandrasekar, Chu, Dingledine, Donard S. Dwyer, Dopico, Dwyer, Erreger, Gass, Gonzales, Göthert, Hoffman, Holmes, Hong Ren, Honse, Izumi, Karakas, Kash, Kash, Kash, Koob, Krishnan-Sarin, Krupitsky, Krystal, Kuner, Lima-Landman, Lovinger, Low, Low, Masood, Mihic, Moykkynen, Nagy, Peoples, Peoples, Peoples, Popp, Ren, Ren, Ren, Ren, Ren, Ren, Robert W. Peoples, Ronald, Salous, Smothers, Smothers, Smothers, Sobolevsky, Sobolevsky, Vengeliene, Vengeliene, Wang, Weiss, Wick, Wills, Woodward, Woodward, Wright, Xu, Xu, Yamakura, Yuan, Yulin Zhao   +68 more
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A methionine‐lined active site governs carbocation stabilization and product specificity in a bacterial terpene synthase

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study reveals a unique active site enriched in methionine residues and demonstrates that these residues play a critical role by stabilizing carbocation intermediates through novel sulfur–cation interactions. Structure‐guided mutagenesis further revealed variants with significantly altered product profiles, enhancing pseudopterosin formation. These
Marion Ringel, Carl P. O. Helmer, Shani Zev, Ronja Driller, Emily Buhr, Markus Reinbold, Renana Schwartz, Gabriel Foley, Mikael Boden, Daniel Garbe, Gerhard Schenk, Dan Thomas Major, Bernhard Loll, Thomas Brück   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A single residue substitution in the receptor-binding domain of H5N1 hemagglutinin is critical for packaging into pseudotyped lentiviral particles [PDF]

, 2012
© 2012 Tang et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited ...
AM Kilpatrick, AN Abdel-Ghafar, B Labrosse, Béatrice Nal, C Tsai, Chi-Hong Lam, DA Senne, DA Steinhauer, Dong-Jiang Tang, DP Nayak, G Kayali, GM Air, H Chen, H Imai, HD Klenk, I Nefkens, J Szecsi, J. S. Malik Peiris, JJ Skehel, JM Garcia, JM Garcia, JM Moore, JS Peiris, L Houzet, M Lakadamyali, M Matrosovich, M Naughtin, MR Sandbulte, P Auewarakul, P Benaroch, Philippe Buchy, RG Webster, Roberto Bruzzone, RP de Vries, S Barman, S Yamada, Shui-Ling Chu, SL Deutscher, Stefan Pöhlmann, SY Wang, T Dung Nuyen, T Horimoto, T McKay, T Rowe, V Bosch, VC Chu, Y Suzuki, Yu-Lam Siu, Yuen-Man Lam, Z Ao   +49 more
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Hyperosmotic stress induces PARP1‐mediated HPF1‐dependent mono(ADP‐ribosyl)ation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Sorbitol‐induced hyperosmotic stress rapidly induces reversible mono(ADP‐ribosyl)ation (MARylation) on PARP1 without the signs of genotoxic signaling. We show that PARP1 autoMARylation is HPF1 dependent and forms hydroxylamine‐resistant O‐glycosidic linkages.
Anna Georgina Kopasz, Mihály Mérey, Rebeka Vásárhelyi, Ramóna Pék, Victor Imburchia, László Henn, Adrián Kószó, Nicholas D. Lakin, Ivan Ahel, Sébastien Huet, Ágnes Czibula, Gyula Timinszky   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Canine distemper virus neutralization activity is low in human serum and it is sensitive to an amino acid substitution in the hemagglutinin protein [PDF]

, 2015
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.Serum was analyzed from 146 healthy adult volunteers in eastern Africa to evaluate measles virus (MV) and canine distemper virus (CDV) neutralizing antibody (nAb) prevalence and potency.
Allen, S, Anzala, O, Domi, A, Driscoll, J, Fast, P, Gilmour, J, Kamali, A, Karita, E, Parks, CL, Price, MA, Sanders, EJ, Wallace, OL, Wright, KJ, Zhang, X   +13 more
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The ubiquitin ligase RNF115 is required for the clearance of damaged lysosomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Upon lysosomal rupture, an E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF115 translocates from the cytosol to the damaged lysosomal membrane. Moreover, RNF115 depletion impairs the clearance of damaged lysosomes, identifying it as a key regulator of lysosomal quality control.
Sae Nakanaga, Toshiki Takahashi, Akiko Kuma, Hiroyuki Kawahara   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source