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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo +2 more
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The challenges of purely mechanistic models in biology and the minimum need for a 'mechanism-plus-X' framework [PDF]
, 2018 Ever since the advent of molecular biology in the 1970s, mechanical models have become the dogma in the field, where a "true" understanding of any subject is equated to a mechanistic description. This has been to the detriment of the biomedical sciences,
Ehsani, Sepehr
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The role and implications of mammalian cellular circadian entrainment
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.At their most fundamental level, mammalian circadian rhythms occur inside every individual cell. To tell the correct time, cells must align (or ‘entrain’) their circadian rhythm to the external environment. In this review, we highlight how cells entrain to the major circadian cues of light, feeding and temperature, and the implications this has for our
Priya Crosby
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Nano-palladium is a cellular catalyst for in vivo chemistry
Nature Communications, 2017 Palladium (Pd) is a well-known catalyst in organic chemistry but its use in nanomedicine is limited. Here, the authors design a Pd nanoparticle that triggers the activation of an antitumour prodrugin vivo, which shows efficacy and improves toxicity ...
Miles A. Miller +5 more
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Negative Energy: Why Interdisciplinary Physics Requires Multiple Ontologies
, 2013 Much recent work in physics education research has focused on ontological metaphors for energy, particularly the substance ontology and its pedagogical affordances.
Dreyfus, Benjamin W. +5 more
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Plant chemical genetics : from phenotype-based screens to synthetic biology [PDF]
, 2017 The treatment of a biological system with small molecules to specifically perturb cellular functions is commonly referred to as chemical biology. Small molecules are used commercially as drugs, herbicides, and fungicides in different systems, but in ...
Dejonghe, Wim, Russinova, Eugenia
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Peptide‐based ligand antagonists block a Vibrio cholerae adhesin
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The structure of a peptide‐binding domain of the Vibrio cholerae adhesin FrhA was solved by X‐ray crystallography, revealing how the inhibitory peptide AGYTD binds tightly at its Ca2+‐coordinated pocket. Structure‐guided design incorporating D‐amino acids enhanced binding affinity, providing a foundation for developing anti‐adhesion therapeutics ...
Mingyu Wang +9 more
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Community content building for evolutionary biology: Lessons learned from LepTree and Encyclopedia of Life [PDF]
, 2010 Online resources to aid large-scale ecological and evolutionary biology are beginning to take root, only a decade behind fields such as genomics and molecular biology.
Cynthia Parr, Dana Campbell, John Park
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This perspective highlights emerging insights into how the circadian transcription factor CLOCK:BMAL1 regulates chromatin architecture, cooperates with other transcription factors, and coordinates enhancer dynamics. We propose an updated framework for how circadian transcription factors operate within dynamic and multifactorial chromatin landscapes ...
Xinyu Y. Nie, Jerome S. Menet
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Integrative Systems Biology Visualization with MAYDAY
Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 2010 Visualization is pivotal for gaining insight in systems biology data. As the size and complexity of datasets and supplemental information increases, an efficient, integrated framework for general and specialized views is necessary.
Symonsy Stephan +3 more
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