The Cacti microbiome: interplay between habitat-filtering and host specificity
Cactaceae represents one of the most species-rich families of succulent plants native to arid and semi-arid ecosystems, yet the associations Cacti establish with microorganisms and the rules governing microbial community assembly remain poorly understood.
Citlali eFonseca-Garcia +11 more
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One-way trip: Influenza virus' adaptation to gallinaceous poultry may limit its pandemic potential [PDF]
We hypothesise that some influenza virus adaptations to poultry may explain why the barrier for human-to-human transmission is not easily overcome once the virus has crossed from wild birds to chickens.
Alexander +101 more
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Generation of two normal and tumour (cancerous) paired human cell lines using an established tissue culture technique and their characterisation is described. Cell lines were characterised at cellular, protein, chromosome and gene expression levels and for HPV status.
Simon Broad +12 more
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Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of ornamental plants from Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil [PDF]
A list of 35 scale insects collected from 72 ornamental plant species in Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil is provided. Regarding host specificity, 30 scale insects were polyphagous, 4 oligophagous, and 1 monophagous.
Miller, D. R. +2 more
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Application of nitroarene dioxygenases in the design of novel strains that degrade chloronitrobenzenes. [PDF]
Widespread application of chloronitrobenzenes as feedstocks for the production of industrial chemicals and pharmaceuticals has resulted in extensive environmental contamination with these toxic compounds, where they pose significant risks to the health ...
Ju, Kou-San, Parales, Rebecca E
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Strength through diversity: how cancers thrive when clones cooperate
Intratumor heterogeneity can offer direct benefits to the tumor through cooperation between different clones. In this review, Kuiken et al. discuss existing evidence for clonal cooperativity to identify overarching principles, and highlight how novel technological developments could address remaining open questions.
Marije C. Kuiken +3 more
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HostPhinder: A Phage Host Prediction Tool
The current dramatic increase of antibiotic resistant bacteria has revitalised the interest in bacteriophages as alternative antibacterial treatment. Meanwhile, the development of bioinformatics methods for analysing genomic data places high-throughput ...
Julia Villarroel +6 more
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A common theme in interaction of bacterial immunoglobulin-binding proteins with immunoglobulins illustrated in the equine system [PDF]
The M protein of Streptococcus equi subsp. equi known as fibrinogen-binding protein (FgBP) is a cell wall-associated protein with antiphagocytic activity that binds IgG. Recombinant versions of the seven equine IgG subclasses were used to investigate the
Abi-Rached +49 more
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ATF4‐mediated stress response as a therapeutic vulnerability in chordoma
We screened 5 chordoma cell lines against 100+ inhibitors of epigenetic and metabolic pathways and kinases and identified halofuginone, a tRNA synthetase inhibitor. Mechanistically halofuginone induces an integrated stress response, with eIF2alpha phosphorylation, activation of ATF4 and its target genes CHOP, ASNS, INHBE leading to cell death ...
Lucia Cottone +11 more
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Retro-inversion imparts antimycobacterial specificity to host defense peptides
Antimicrobial host defense peptides are promising alternatives to resistance prone small molecule antibiotics. To overcome the poor physiologic stability of these therapeutic candidates it is common to prepare proteolytically resistant retro-inverso ...
Hugh D. Glossop +8 more
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