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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

Methylation biomarkers can distinguish pleural mesothelioma from healthy pleura and other pleural pathologies

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
We developed and validated a DNA methylation–based biomarker panel to distinguish pleural mesothelioma from other pleural conditions. Using the IMPRESS technology, we translated this panel into a clinically applicable assay. The resulting two classifier models demonstrated excellent performance, achieving high AUC values and strong diagnostic accuracy.
Janah Vandenhoeck, Nele De Meulenaere, Thomas Vanpoucke, Joe Ibrahim, Dieter Peeters, Suresh Krishan Yogeswaran, Wen Wen, Paul Van Schil, Jeroen M. H. Hendriks, Jo Raskin, Jan van Meerbeeck, Guy Van Camp, Ken Op de Beeck   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological properties of Vibrio parahaemolyticus lytic phages and transcriptome analysis of their interactions with the host

Aquaculture Reports
Vibrio parahaemolyticus (V. parahaemolyticus) is an opportunistic pathogen primarily affecting aquaculture animals, leading to severe aquatic animal diseases and fatalities.
Duanduan Chen, Zhiwei Wang, Xiangkai Li, Hongchi Du, Kaisheng Zhang, Shengliang Cao, Jianbiao Lu, Shuang Zhao, Hui Wang, Yubao Li   +9 more
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Rapid de novo evolution of lysis genes in single-stranded RNA phages

Nature Communications, 2020
Leviviruses are phages with ssRNA genomes that encode a protein (Sgl) that induces host autolysis by interfering with bacterial cell wall synthesis. Identification of sgl genes is complicated by their small size and lack of sequence similarity.
Karthik R. Chamakura, Jennifer S. Tran, Chandler O’Leary, Hannah G. Lisciandro, Sophia F. Antillon, Kameron D. Garza, Elizabeth Tran, Lorna Min, Ry Young   +8 more
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Case Report: successful use of phage therapy in refractory MRSA chronic rhinosinusitis

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
We present a case of refractory methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus that was successfully treated with a combination of antibiotics, systemic phage and intranasal phage therapy.
J. Martin Rodriguez, Bradford A Woodworth, Bri'Anna Horne, Joseph Fackler, Michael J. Brownstein   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular Characterisation of Bacteriophage K Towards Applications for the Biocontrol of Pathogenic Staphylococci [PDF]

, 2006
End of project reportThe aim of this work was to characterise staphylococcal bacteriophage (a bacterial virus) and to assess their potential as therapeutic agents against pathogenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus, particularly mastitis-causing strains.
Coffey, Aidan, Fitzgerald, Gerald F, Flynn, James, Meaney, William J, O'Flaherty, Sarah, Ross, R Paul   +5 more
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dUTPase is essential in zebrafish development and possesses several single‐nucleotide variants with pronounced structural and functional consequences

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
dUTPases are involved in balancing the appropriate nucleotide pools. We showed that dUTPase is essential for normal development in zebrafish. The different zebrafish genomes contain several single‐nucleotide variations (SNPs) of the dut gene. One of the dUTPase variants displayed drastically lower protein stability and catalytic efficiency as compared ...
Viktória Perey‐Simon, Angéla Békesi, Latifa Kazzazy, Jázmin Mihály, Máté Varga, Beáta G. Vértessy, Kinga Nyíri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Encapsulation of E. coli phage ZCEC5 in chitosan–alginate beads as a delivery system in phage therapy

AMB Express, 2019
Bacteriophages can be used successfully to treat pathogenic bacteria in the food chain including zoonotic pathogens that colonize the intestines of farm animals.
Abdallah S. Abdelsattar, Fatma Abdelrahman, Alyaa Dawoud, Ian F. Connerton, Ayman El-Shibiny   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Structural Assembly of Qβ Virion and Its Diverse Forms of Virus-like Particles

Viruses, 2022
The coat proteins (CPs) of single-stranded RNA bacteriophages (ssRNA phages) directly assemble around the genomic RNA (gRNA) to form a near-icosahedral capsid with a single maturation protein (Mat) that binds the gRNA and interacts with the retractile ...
Jeng-Yih Chang, Karl V. Gorzelnik, Jirapat Thongchol, Junjie Zhang   +3 more
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Isolation of a Novel Phage OTooleKemple52 [PDF]

, 2017
A bacteriophage is a virus capable of infecting bacteria like ubiquitous soil-dwelling genus Bacillus. Within the Bacillus genus, there is the “ACT family” made up of B. thuringiensis, B. cereus, and B.
Raymond, Thomas O
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