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Reciprocal control of viral infection and phosphoinositide dynamics

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Phosphoinositides, although scarce, regulate key cellular processes, including membrane dynamics and signaling. Viruses exploit these lipids to support their entry, replication, assembly, and egress. The central role of phosphoinositides in infection highlights phosphoinositide metabolism as a promising antiviral target.
Marie Déborah Bancilhon, Bruno Mesmin
wiley   +1 more source

Structural biology of ferritin nanocages

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ferritin is a conserved iron‐storage protein that sequesters iron as a ferric mineral core within a nanocage, protecting cells from oxidative damage and maintaining iron homeostasis. This review discusses ferritin biology, structure, and function, and highlights recent cryo‐EM studies revealing mechanisms of ferritinophagy, cellular iron uptake, and ...
Eloise Mastrangelo, Flavio Di Pisa
wiley   +1 more source

Defence against bacterial drug resistance. [PDF]

BMJ, 1976
Everyone knows that acquired microbic resistance is the Achilles heel of chemotherapy. All living things can acquire some resistance to noxious agents-man to morphine, for instance. Bacteria are no exception: they can become more resistant in some degree even to ordinary germicides.
openaire   +2 more sources

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

Predicting bacterial fitness cost associated with drug resistance [PDF]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2012
It has been proposed that antimicrobial resistance could be associated with a fitness cost in bacteria, which is often determined by competition experiments between isogenic strains (wild-type and mutant). However, this conventional approach is time consuming and labour intensive.
Beining, Guo, Kamilia, Abdelraouf, Kimberly R, Ledesma, Michael, Nikolaou, Vincent H, Tam   +4 more
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Peroxidasin enables melanoma immune escape by inhibiting natural killer cell cytotoxicity

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Peroxidasin (PXDN) is secreted by melanoma cells and binds the NK cell receptor NKG2D, thereby suppressing NK cell activation and cytotoxicity. PXDN depletion restores NKG2D signaling and enables effective NK cell–mediated melanoma killing. These findings identify PXDN as a previously unrecognized immune evasion factor and a potential target to improve
Hsu‐Min Sung, David Bickel, Lena C. M. Krause, Daria Ezeriņa, Christian Ickes, Julian Wojtachnia, Christine S. Gibhardt, Magdalena Shumanska, Khadija Wahni, Andrea Paluschkiwitz, Julia Malo Pueyo, Ekaterina Baranova, Wim Vranken, Hedwig Stanisz, Ioana Stejerean‐Todoran, Michael P. Schön, Joris Messens, Ivan Bogeski   +17 more
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Genome-wide identification of essential genes in the invasive Streptococcus anginosus strain

Scientific Reports
Streptococcus anginosus, part of the Streptococcus anginosus group (SAG), is a human commensal increasingly recognized as an opportunistic pathogen responsible for abscesses formation and infections, also invasive ones.
Aleksandra Kuryłek, Jan Gawor, Karolina Żuchniewicz, Robert Gromadka, Izabela Kern-Zdanowicz   +4 more
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TRAIL‐PEG‐Apt‐PLGA nanosystem as an aptamer‐targeted drug delivery system potential for triple‐negative breast cancer therapy using in vivo mouse model

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Aptamers are used both therapeutically and as targeting agents in cancer treatment. We developed an aptamer‐targeted PLGA–TRAIL nanosystem that exhibited superior therapeutic efficacy in NOD/SCID breast cancer models. This nanosystem represents a novel biotechnological drug candidate for suppressing resistance development in breast cancer.
Gulen Melike Demirbolat, Aslihan Kucuk, Omer Erdogan, Samed Ozer, Bensu Kozan, Tugba Cuceli, Erkan Gumus, Evrim Cevik, Ozge Cevik   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Vitro Efficacy of Imipenem/Relebactam Against Imipenem Resistant Gram-Negative Strains Isolated from a Tertiary Care Hospital

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal
Objective: To determine in vitro efficacy of Imipenem/Relebactam against multi-drug resistant strains. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Microbiology, Fauji Foundation Hospital (FFH) Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Saima Ishtiaq, Sonia Tahir, Muhammad Waqas Abbas, Haider Ali, Saima Syed, Fatima Kareem   +5 more
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Curcumin Quantum Dots Mediated Degradation of Bacterial Biofilms

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
Bacterial biofilm has been reported to be associated with more than 80% of bacterial infections. Curcumin, a hydrophobic polyphenol compound, has anti-quorum sensing activity apart from having antimicrobial action. However, its use is limited by its poor
Ashish K. Singh, Ashish K. Singh, Pradyot Prakash, Ranjana Singh, Nabarun Nandy, Zeba Firdaus, Monika Bansal, Ranjan K. Singh, Anchal Srivastava, Anchal Srivastava, Jagat K. Roy, Brahmeshwar Mishra, Rakesh K. Singh   +12 more
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