Conserved DNA methyltransferases: a window into fundamental mechanisms of epigenetic regulation in bacteria

PH Oliveira, G Fang - Trends in microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
An increasing number of studies have reported that bacterial DNA methylation has important
functions beyond the roles in restriction-modification systems, including the ability of …

[HTML][HTML] History and future perspectives on the discipline of quantitative systems pharmacology modeling and its applications

K Azer, CD Kaddi, JS Barrett, JPF Bai… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mathematical biology and pharmacology models have a long and rich history in the fields of
medicine and physiology, impacting our understanding of disease mechanisms and the …

[HTML][HTML] In silico analysis of epitope-based vaccine candidate against tuberculosis using reverse vaccinology

S Bibi, I Ullah, B Zhu, M Adnan, R Liaqat, WB Kong… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) kills more individuals in the world than any other disease, and a threat
made direr by the coverage of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) …

Nucleoid-associated proteins shape chromatin structure and transcriptional regulation across the bacterial kingdom

HM Amemiya, J Schroeder, PL Freddolino - Transcription, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Genome architecture has proven to be critical in determining gene regulation across almost
all domains of life. While many of the key components and mechanisms of eukaryotic …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of transcriptomics and proteomics for understanding dormancy and resuscitation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

M Kundu, J Basu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis can survive within its host for extended periods of time without
any clinical symptoms of disease and reactivate when the immune system is weakened. A …

Development of surface imprinted heterogeneous nitrogen-doped magnetic carbon nanotubes as promising materials for protein separation and purification

Z Yang, J Wang, T Shah, P Liu, M Ahmad, Q Zhang… - Talanta, 2021 - Elsevier
To promote the development of molecular imprinting technique in the separation and
analysis of protein, novel bovine serum albumin (BSA) surface imprinted nitrogen-doped …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting the RecA-(In)dependent Response to Mitomycin C in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Using Transcriptional Profiling and Proteomics Analyses

A Brzostek, P Płociński, A Minias, A Ciszewska… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mycobacteria exploit at least two independent global systems in response to DNA damage:
the LexA/RecA-dependent SOS response and the PafBC-regulated pathway. Intracellular …

A balancing act in transcription regulation by response regulators: titration of transcription factor activity by decoy DNA binding sites

R Gao, LJ Helfant, T Wu, Z Li, SE Brokaw… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Studies of transcription regulation are often focused on binding of transcription factors (TFs)
to a small number of promoters of interest. It is often assumed that TFs are in great excess to …

G-quadruplex motifs are functionally conserved in cis-regulatory regions of pathogenic bacteria: An in-silico evaluation

U Dey, S Sarkar, V Teronpi, VR Yella, A Kumar - Biochimie, 2021 - Elsevier
The role of G-quadruplexes in the cellular physiology of human pathogenesis is an
intriguing area of research. Nonetheless, their functional roles and evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Mycobacterium tuberculosis SufR responds to nitric oxide via its 4Fe–4S cluster and regulates Fe–S cluster biogenesis for persistence in mice

K Anand, A Tripathi, K Shukla, N Malhotra… - Redox Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
The persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a major problem in managing
tuberculosis (TB). Host-generated nitric oxide (NO) is perceived as one of the signals by Mtb …