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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamic Transition of Persistence toward the Viable but Nonculturable State during Stationary Phase Is Driven by Protein Aggregation

mBio, 2021
Decades of research into bacterial persistence has been unable to fully characterize this antibiotic-tolerant phenotype, thereby hampering the development of therapies effective against chronic infections.
Liselot Dewachter, Celien Bollen, Dorien Wilmaerts, Elen Louwagie, Pauline Herpels, Paul Matthay, Ladan Khodaparast, Laleh Khodaparast, Frederic Rousseau, Joost Schymkowitz, Jan Michiels   +10 more
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler, Markus R. Busch, Reinhard Sterner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competition between homologous chromosomal DNA and exogenous donor DNA to repair CRISPR/Cas9-induced double-strand breaks in Aspergillus  niger

Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
Background Aspergillus niger is well-known for its high protein secretion capacity and therefore an important cell factory for homologous and heterologous protein production.
Selina Forrer, Mark Arentshorst, Prajeesh Koolth Valappil, Jaap Visser, Arthur F. J. Ram   +4 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Bioconversion of biphenyl to a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer by Alcaligenes denitrificans A41

AMB Express, 2020
A polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) copolymer, poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) [P(3HB-co-3HV)], was biosynthesized from biphenyl as the sole carbon source using Alcaligenes (currently Achromobacter) denitrificans A41.
Taito Yajima, Mizuki Nagatomo, Aiko Wakabayashi, Michio Sato, Seiichi Taguchi, Michihisa Maeda   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

LATS kinases and SLUG regulate the transition to advanced stage in aggressive oral cancer cells

Scientific Reports, 2022
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a critical process by which cancer cells acquire malignant features. However, the molecular mechanism and functional implications of EMT and the mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) in tumor ...
Emi Fujibayashi, Satomi Mukai, Kosuke Torigata, Yumi Ando, Toshihiro Uchihashi, Masami Nozaki, Susumu Tanaka, Masato Okada, Mikihiko Kogo, Hiroshi Nojima, Norikazu Yabuta   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic basis of microbial carotenogenesis

International Microbiology, 2003
The synthesis of carotenoids begins with the formation of a phytoene from geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate, a well conserved step in all carotenogenic organisms and catalyzed by a phytoene synthase, an enzyme encoded by the crtB ( spy) genes. The next step is the dehydrogenation of the phytoene, which is carried out by phytoene dehydrogenase.
C, Sieiro, M, Poza, T, de Miguel, T G, Villa   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

C2α‐carbanion‐protonating glutamate discloses tradeoffs between substrate accommodation and reaction rate in actinobacterial 2‐hydroxyacyl‐CoA lyase

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Enzymes of the 2‐hydroxyacyl‐CoA lyase group catalyze the condensation of formyl‐CoA with aldehydes or ketones. Thus, by structural adaptation of active sites, practically any pharmaceutically and industrially important 2‐hydroxyacid could be biotechnologically synthesized. Combining crystal structure analysis, active site mutations and kinetic assays,
Michael Zahn, Barbara Seroka, Ryszard Lazny, Zenon Lotowski, Thore Rohwerder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Salmonella stress response systems as targets for anti-virulence strategies

BMC Microbiology
Due to the rapid development of antibiotic resistance, novel strategies to cope with bacterial infections are urgently required. Ideally, these strategies should exert less selection pressure for resistance than traditional antibiotics.
Alshimaa Hassanin, Bram Lories, Hans P. Steenackers   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source