This work demonstrates that Acinetobacter radioresistens strain S13 during the growth on medium supplemented with long-chain alkanes as the sole energy source expresses almA gene coding for a Baeyer-Villiger monooxygenase (BVMO) involved in alkanes subterminal oxidation. Phylogenetic analysis placed the sequence of this novel BVMO in the same clade of the prodrug activator ethionamide monooxyge...

Repair of UV-irradiated bacteriophage in Escherichia coli by Weigle reactivation requires functional recA+ and umuD+C+ genes. When the cells were UV irradiated, the groE heat shock gene products, GroES and GroEL, were needed for at least 50% of the Weigle reactivation of the single-stranded DNA phage S13. Because of repression of the umuDC and recA genes, Weigle reactivation is normally blocked...

We have previously isolated a putative promoter from the Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis chromosome. We now report the sequence of the promoter fragment and its extension in the 5'-direction. The region contains several open-reading frames which correspond to ribosomal protein L15, SecY, adenylate kinase, initiation factor 1 and ribosomal proteins B and S13. The order of the genes, rplO (L15),...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of glucocorticoids (GCs) on acute myocardial infarction (MI) risk in patients with RA. METHODS Using administrative health data, we conducted a population-based cohort study of 8384 incident RA cases (1997-2006). Primary exposure was incident GC use. MI events were ascertained using hospitalization and vital statistics data. We used Cox proportional-hazards ...

Abstract How Merlin-intact meningiomas arise in the absence of NF2/Merlin inactivation is incompletely understood. Here, we integrate single-cell RNA sequencing 86,000 cells from meningioma xenografts with APEX2 proteomic proximity-labelling mass spectrometry and functional biochemical approaches to discover Merlin Serine 13 (S13) dephosphorylation drives Wnt signalling cell proliferation. Cell...

naling events that are continuously modified by environmental cues. However, the details of how these processes can change cell fate choices are still unknown. Previously, we demonstrated that sustained expression of HOXA3 both accelerated wound healing and promoted neovascularisation in diabetic mice. We have subsequently shown that in response to injury HOXA3 induces a significant increase in...