[HTML][HTML] Fusion tags for protein solubility, purification and immunogenicity in Escherichia coli: the novel Fh8 system

S Costa, A Almeida, A Castro… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Proteins are now widely produced in diverse microbial cell factories. The Escherichia coli is
still the dominant host for recombinant protein production but, as a bacterial cell, it also has …

[HTML][HTML] Stapled peptides inhibitors: a new window for target drug discovery

AM Ali, J Atmaj, N Van Oosterwijk, MR Groves… - Computational and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) is a hot topic in clinical research as protein networking has a
major impact in human disease. Such PPIs are potential drugs targets, leading to the need …

[HTML][HTML] Butyrate producing colonic Clostridiales metabolise human milk oligosaccharides and cross feed on mucin via conserved pathways

MJ Pichler, C Yamada, B Shuoker… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The early life human gut microbiota exerts life-long health effects on the host, but the
mechanisms underpinning its assembly remain elusive. Particularly, the early colonization of …

Enhancement of soluble protein expression through the use of fusion tags

D Esposito, DK Chatterjee - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2006 - Elsevier
The soluble expression of heterologous proteins in Escherichia coli remains a serious
bottleneck in protein production. Although alteration of expression conditions can sometimes …

Cytokinin signalling inhibitory fields provide robustness to phyllotaxis

F Besnard, Y Refahi, V Morin, B Marteaux, G Brunoud… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
How biological systems generate reproducible patterns with high precision is a central
question in science. The shoot apical meristem (SAM), a specialized tissue producing plant …

Differential bacterial capture and transport preferences facilitate co-growth on dietary xylan in the human gut

ML Leth, M Ejby, C Workman, DA Ewald… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Metabolism of dietary glycans is pivotal in shaping the human gut microbiota. However, the
mechanisms that promote competition for glycans among gut commensals remain unclear …

The F-box protein UFO controls flower development by redirecting the master transcription factor LEAFY to new cis-elements

P Rieu, L Turchi, E Thévenon, E Zarkadas, M Nanao… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
In angiosperms, flower development requires the combined action of the transcription factor
LEAFY (LFY) and the ubiquitin ligase adaptor F-box protein, UNUSUAL FLORAL ORGANS …

Strategies to maximize heterologous protein expression in Escherichia coli with minimal cost

W Peti, R Page - Protein expression and purification, 2007 - Elsevier
Automation and miniaturization are key issues of high-throughput research projects in the
post-genomic era. The implementation of robotics and parallelization has enabled …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis for oligomerization of auxin transcriptional regulators

MH Nanao, T Vinos-Poyo, G Brunoud… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The plant hormone auxin is a key morphogenetic regulator acting from embryogenesis
onwards. Transcriptional events in response to auxin are mediated by the auxin response …

A promiscuous intermediate underlies the evolution of LEAFY DNA binding specificity

C Sayou, M Monniaux, MH Nanao, E Moyroud… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Transcription factors (TFs) are key players in evolution. Changes affecting their function can
yield novel life forms but may also have deleterious effects. Consequently, gene duplication …