Roles of intestinal Parabacteroides in human health and diseases

Y Cui, L Zhang, X Wang, Y Yi, Y Shan… - FEMS microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The stability of gut microbiota is essential for the host's health. Parabacteroides spp., core
members of the human gut microbiota, have an average abundance of 1.27% in humans of …

Systematic review of gut microbiota and major depression

SG Cheung, AR Goldenthal, AC Uhlemann… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Recently discovered relationships between the gastrointestinal microbiome
and the brain have implications for psychiatric disorders, including major depressive …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro digestibility and prebiotic activities of a sulfated polysaccharide from Gracilaria Lemaneiformis

R Han, D Pang, L Wen, L You, R Huang… - Journal of Functional …, 2020 - Elsevier
The study explored the changes of a sulfated polysaccharide (SP) from Gracilaria
Lemaneiformis during simulated human digestive system. The results showed SP was …

Proton pump inhibitor-induced gut dysbiosis increases mortality rates for patients with clostridioides difficile infection

CY Lin, HT Cheng, CJ Kuo, YS Lee… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is associated with high mortality rates among patients
with chronic illnesses. We aimed to identify avoidable risk factors to reduce the mortality rate …

Next-generation sequencing reveals fecal contamination and potentially pathogenic bacteria in a major inflow river of Taihu Lake

KK Vadde, Q Feng, J Wang, AJ McCarthy… - Environmental Pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
Taihu Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in China and serves as an important
source for drinking water. This lake is suffering from eutrophication, cyanobacterial blooms …

Dataset from a human-in-the-loop approach to identify functionally important protein residues from literature

M Vollmar, S Tirunagari, D Harrus, D Armstrong… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
We present a novel system that leverages curators in the loop to develop a dataset and
model for detecting structure features and functional annotations at residue-level from …

Substrate profiling and high resolution co-complex crystal structure of a secreted C11 protease conserved across commensal bacteria

EJ Roncase, C Moon, S Chatterjee… - ACS chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Cysteine proteases are among the most abundant hydrolytic enzymes produced by bacteria,
and this diverse family of proteins have significant biological roles in bacterial viability and …

Activation mechanism and activity of globupain, a thermostable C11 protease from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge hydrothermal system

V Røyseth, BM Hurysz, AK Kaczorowska… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents offer unique habitats for heat tolerant enzymes with potential
new enzymatic properties. Here, we present the novel C11 protease globupain, which was …

Evaluation of clan CD C11 peptidase PNT1 and other Leishmania mexicana cysteine peptidases as potential drug targets

JS Grewal, CMC Catta-Preta, E Brown, J Anand… - Biochimie, 2019 - Elsevier
Leishmania mexicana is one of the causative agents of cutaneous leishmaniasis in humans.
There is an urgent need to identify new drug targets to combat the disease. Cysteine …

Activation Mechanism of the Bacteroides fragilis Cysteine Peptidase, Fragipain

J Herrou, VM Choi, J Bubeck Wardenburg… - Biochemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis produces a secreted metalloprotease known as B.
fragilis toxin (BFT), which contributes to anaerobic sepsis, colitis, and colonic malignancy in …