Development of a high throughput screening tool for biotransformations utilising a thermophilic L-aminoacylase enzyme

Ngamsom, B.; Hickey, A. M.; Greenway, G. M.; Littlechild, J. A.; Watts, P.; Wiles, C.

doi:10.1016/j.molcatb.2009.12.013

Variation in amino acid and lipid composition of latent fingerprints (2010)
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Croxton, R. S., Baron, M. G., Butler, D., Kent, T., & Sears, V. G. (2010). Variation in amino acid and lipid composition of latent fingerprints. Forensic Science International, 199(1-3), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.03.019

The enhancement of latent fingerprints, both at the crime scene and in the laboratory using an array of chemical, physical and optical techniques, permits their use for identification. Despite the plethora of techniques available, there are occasions... Read More about Variation in amino acid and lipid composition of latent fingerprints.

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Sudden cardiac death is a major contributor to mortality in industrialized nations; in fact, it is the cause of more deaths than acquired immune deficiency syndrome, lung and breast cancer, and stroke together. Frequently, the autopsy becomes the pri... Read More about Genetics and cardiac channelopathies.

The development and evaluation of a conducting matrix for the electrochemical regeneration of the immobilised co-factor NAD(H) under continuous flow (2010)
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Through the preparation of a novel controlled pore glass-poly(pyrrole) material we have developed a conducting support that is not only suitable for the co-immobilisation of enzymes and co-factors, but also enables the facile electrochemical regenera... Read More about The development and evaluation of a conducting matrix for the electrochemical regeneration of the immobilised co-factor NAD(H) under continuous flow.

Biological and clinical implications of nicastrin expression in invasive breast cancer (2010)
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Filipović, A., Gronau, J. H., Green, A. R., Wang, J., Vallath, S., Shao, D., Rasul, S., Ellis, I. O., Yagüe, E., Sturge, J., & Coombes, R. C. (2011). Biological and clinical implications of nicastrin expression in invasive breast cancer. Breast cancer research and treatment, 125(1), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-010-0823-1

Nicastrin is an essential component of the gamma secretase (GS) enzyme complex, required for its synthesis and recognition of substrates for proteolytic cleavage. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether nicastrin has prognostic value or... Read More about Biological and clinical implications of nicastrin expression in invasive breast cancer.

Hydrogen bonded dimers vs. one-dimensional chains in 2-thiooxoimidazolidin-4-one (thiohydantoin) drug derivatives (2010)
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Jha, S., Silversides, J. D., Boyle, R. W., & Archibald, S. J. (2010). Hydrogen bonded dimers vs. one-dimensional chains in 2-thiooxoimidazolidin-4-one (thiohydantoin) drug derivatives. CrystEngComm RSC, 12(6), 1730-1739. https://doi.org/10.1039/b924683e

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Biomedical applications of macrocyclic ligand complexes (2010)
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Macrocyclic chelators can form highly stable complexes with transition metals and lanthanides. In this review, the recent advances towards biomedical applications of macrocyclic complexes are outlined. The use of such complexes in imaging as MRI cont... Read More about Biomedical applications of macrocyclic ligand complexes.

Biomarkers of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer identified by proteomics: current status (2010)
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This review describes and discusses the advantages and limitations of proteomic approaches in the identification of biomarkers associated with chemotherapy resistance. Both gel-based (two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis) and gel-free (... Read More about Biomarkers of chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer identified by proteomics: current status.

An internal sequence targets Trypanosoma brucei triosephosphate isomerase to glycosomes (2010)
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Galland, N., de Walque, S., Voncken, F. G., Verlinde, C. L., & Michels, P. A. (2010). An internal sequence targets Trypanosoma brucei triosephosphate isomerase to glycosomes. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 171(1), 45-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.01.002

In kinetoplastid protists, glycolysis is compartmentalized in glycosomes, organelles belonging to the peroxisome family. The Trypanosoma brucei glycosomal enzyme triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) does not contain either of the two established peroxisom... Read More about An internal sequence targets Trypanosoma brucei triosephosphate isomerase to glycosomes.

Gender-based issues in interventional cardiology: A consensus statement from the Women in Innovations (WIN) Initiative (2010)
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Chieffo, A., Hoye, A., Mauri, F., Mikhail, G. W., Ammerer, M., Grines, C., Grinfeld, L., Madan, M., Presbitero, P., Skelding, K. A., Weiner, B. H., Mehran, R., & on behalf of the WIN Group. (2010). Gender-based issues in interventional cardiology: A consensus statement from the Women in Innovations (WIN) Initiative. Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, 75(2), 145-152. https://doi.org/10.1002/ccd.22327

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality in women, yet studies have suggested that it is often under-recognized. Of particular concern is the apparent suboptimal treatment of women in comparison to men, with less revascularizati... Read More about Gender-based issues in interventional cardiology: A consensus statement from the Women in Innovations (WIN) Initiative.

A systematic screen for proteing-lipid interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2010)
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Gallego, O., Betts, M. J., Gvozdenovic-Jeremic, J., Maeda, K., Matetzki, C., Aguilar-Gurrieri, C., Beltran-Alvarez, P., Bonn, S., Fernández-Tornero, C., Jensen, L. J., Kuhn, M., Trott, J., Rybin, V., Müller, C. W., Bork, P., Kaksonen, M., Russell, R. B., & Gavin, A. C. (2010). A systematic screen for proteing-lipid interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Systems Biology, 6(1), Article 430. https://doi.org/10.1038/msb.2010.87

Proteing-metabolite networks are central to biological systems, but are incompletely understood. Here, we report a screen to catalog proteing-lipid interactions in yeast. We used arrays of 56 metabolites to measure lipid-binding fingerprints of 172 p... Read More about A systematic screen for proteing-lipid interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Oxaliplatin responses in colorectal cancer cells are modulated by CHK2 kinase inhibitors (2010)
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Effects of acute versus chronic hypoxia on DNA damage responses and genomic instability (2010)
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Questions exist concerning the effects of acute versus chronic hypoxic conditions on DNA replication and genomic stability that may influence tumorigenesis. Severe hypoxia causes replication arrest independent of S-phase checkpoint, DNA damage respon... Read More about Effects of acute versus chronic hypoxia on DNA damage responses and genomic instability.

Variant IRF4/MUM1 associates with CD38 status and treatment-free survival in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (2010)
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KSHV-encoded miRNAs target MAF to induce endothelial cell reprogramming (2010)
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Common variants at 2q37.3, 8q24.21, 15q21.3 and 16q24.1 influence chronic lymphocytic leukemia risk (2010)
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To identify new risk variants for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), we conducted a genome-wide association study of 299,983 tagging SNPs, with validation in four additional series totaling 2,503 cases and 5,789 controls. We identified four new risk... Read More about Common variants at 2q37.3, 8q24.21, 15q21.3 and 16q24.1 influence chronic lymphocytic leukemia risk.

Amino acid metabolism of bovine blastocysts: A biomarker of sex and viability (2010)
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The ratio of male/female embryos may be modified by environmental factors such as maternal diet in vivo and the composition of embryo culture media in vitro. We have used amino acid profiling, a noninvasive marker of developmental potential to compar... Read More about Amino acid metabolism of bovine blastocysts: A biomarker of sex and viability.

Alterations in the Th1/Th2 balance in breast cancer patients using reflexology and scalp massage (2010)
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Coordination chemistry of macrocyclic ligands (2009)
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Hypoxia mediated release of endothelial microparticles and increased association of S100A12 with circulating neutrophils (2009)
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Development of a high throughput screening tool for biotransformations utilising a thermophilic L-aminoacylase enzyme (2009)
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Ngamsom, B., Hickey, A. M., Greenway, G. M., Littlechild, J. A., Watts, P., & Wiles, C. (2010). Development of a high throughput screening tool for biotransformations utilising a thermophilic L-aminoacylase enzyme. Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic, 63(1-2), 81-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcatb.2009.12.013

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