Influence of the polysaccharide capsule on virulence and fitness of Klebsiella pneumoniae by Lisa Zierke, Rodi Mourad, Thomas P. Kohler, Mathias Müsken, Sven Hammerschmidt

“…The non-encapsulated mutant, in contrast, was unable to survive in either whole blood or human plasma. …”
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Pronerve Growth Factor Induces Angiogenesis via Activation of TrkA: Possible Role in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy by Sally L. Elshaer, Mohammed A. Abdelsaid, Ahmad Al-Azayzih, Parag Kumar, Suraporn Matragoon, Julian J. Nussbaum, Azza B. El-Remessy

“…Additional cultures were treated with mutant-proNGF in the presence of specific pharmacological inhibitors of TrkA and p75NTR receptors. …”
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Mutated p53 Promotes the Symmetric Self-Renewal of Cisplatin-Resistant Lung Cancer Stem-Like Cells and Inhibits the Recruitment of Macrophages by Yu Xu, Zhi Xu, Qi Li, Liang Guo, Yao Wang, Jianchun Zhou, Guansong Wang, Yuliang Liu

“…It has been proposed that mutant p53 is correlated with the recurrence of lung cancer. …”
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Association of eNOS Gene Polymorphisms G894T and T-786C with Risk of Hepatorenal Syndrome by Yuksel Seckin, Ali Yigit, Elif Yesilada, Gonca Gulbay, Yasir Furkan Cagin, Harika Gozukara, Yılmaz Bılgıc, Oguzhan Yildirim, Yusuf Turkoz, Zeynep Aksungur

“…Conclusion. The occurrence of mutant genotypes (GT/TT) and mutant allele T in eNOS -G894T polymorphisms should be considered as a potential risk factor in cirrhotic patients with HRS.…”
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Nuclear N-WASP Induces Actin Polymerization in the Nucleus with Cortactin as an Essential Factor by Xin Jiang, Purusottam Mohapatra, Maria Rossing, Wenqian Zheng, Olga Zbodakova, Jayashree Vijay Thatte, Claus Storgaard Sørensen, Thu Han Le Phan, Cord Brakebusch

“…While a cancer hotspot mutant of N-WASP lacking the VCA domain (V418fs) had a dominant negative function on nuclear F-actin, an even shorter truncation mutant found in melanoma (R128*) strongly promoted nuclear actin polymerization. …”
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Study of the expression of oncoprotein p53, EGFR in colorectal carcinomas with different proliferative activity by I.S. Shponka, I.K. Kharkhalis, O.V. Poslavska

“…The distribution of p53 expression variants - wild type (0<p53 <10%) or "mutant" (overexpression ≥10% or completely negative samples) showed no significant difference in any group (all p>0.05), despite that among men, mutant expression of p53 was significantly higher than among women – 72.72% (16 out of 22) versus 53.33% (8 out of 15), and all patients under the age of 50 years had a mutant type of p53 expression 9 out of 9 (100%), while the number of such observations after 50 years already decreased to about half – 15 out of 28 (53.57%). …”
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TP53 Mutation Predicts Worse Survival and Earlier Local Progression in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Transarterial Embolization by Ken Zhao, Anita Karimi, Luke Kelly, Elena Petre, Brett Marinelli, Erica S. Alexander, Vlasios S. Sotirchos, Joseph P. Erinjeri, Anne Covey, Constantinos T. Sofocleous, James J. Harding, William Jarnagin, Carlie Sigel, Efsevia Vakiani, Etay Ziv, Hooman Yarmohammadi

“…Of these, 26/75 (34.7%) patients had TP53-mutant HCC. Patients with TP53-mutant HCC had a significantly worse median OS of 15.2 (95% CI, 9.5–29.3) months, versus 31.2 (95% CI, 21.2–52.4) months as the median OS (<i>p</i> = 0.023) for TP53 wild-type HCC. …”
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Kank Is an EB1 interacting protein that localises to muscle-tendon attachment sites in Drosophila. by Sara M R Clohisey, Nikola S Dzhindzhev, Hiroyuki Ohkura

“…In late embryos, it accumulates to sites of attachment between muscle and epidermal cells. A kank deletion mutant was generated. We found that the mutant is viable and fertile without noticeable defects. …”
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Identification and Functional Characterization of P159L Mutation in in a Family with Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young 5 (MODY5) by Eun Ky Kim, Ji Seon Lee, Hae Il Cheong, Sung Soo Chung, Soo Heon Kwak, Kyong Soo Park

“…In the MIN6 pancreatic β-cell line, overexpression of the P159L mutant was significantly associated with decreased mRNA levels of GLUT2 compared to wild-type (p < 0.05). …”
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Bone cell differentiation and mineralization in wild-type and osteogenesis imperfecta zebrafish are compromised by per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by Francesca Tonelli, Cecilia Masiero, Carla Aresi, Camilla Torriani, Simona Villani, Guido Premoli, Antonio Rossi, Antonella Forlino

“…Apoptosis was only activated by PFOA, specifically in Chi/+ mutant operculum osteoblasts. Interestingly, an altered lipid distribution in both WT and mutant fish was revealed after exposure to both pollutants. …”
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Phages adapt to recognize an O-antigen polysaccharide site by mutating the “backup” tail protein ORF59, enabling reinfection of phage-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae by Ping Li, Wenjie Ma, Jun Cheng, Cuixing Zhan, Hongzhou Lu, Jiayin Shen, Xin Zhou

“…In this paper, we presented the isolation of a phage adaptive mutant that demonstrated enhanced and sustained antibacterial efficacy through the co-evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) 111-2 and phage ZX1Δint in vitro. …”
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Multi-omic analysis on the molecular mechanisms of rapid growth in ‘Deqin’ alfalfa after space mutagenesis by Qian Kuang, Chenggang He, Heping Huang, Hua Jiang

“…Results Comparative analyses of transcriptomics, proteomics, and hormone profiles were conducted in root, stem, and leaf tissues of both mutant and non-mutagenic materials. Targeted plant hormone showed notable increases in the levels of 3-indolebutyric, indole-3-acetic, and 3-indolepropionic acids in the mutant, with percentage increases of 33.55%, 32.49%, and 30.39%, respectively. …”
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Molecular dependencies and genomic consequences of a global DNA damage tolerance defect by Daniel de Groot, Aldo Spanjaard, Ronak Shah, Maaike Kreft, Ben Morris, Cor Lieftink, Joyce J. I. Catsman, Shirley Ormel, Matilda Ayidah, Bas Pilzecker, Olimpia Alessandra Buoninfante, Paul C. M. van den Berk, Roderick L. Beijersbergen, Heinz Jacobs

“…Results To determine the molecular and genomic impact of a global DDT defect, we studied PcnaK164R/−;Rev1−/− compound mutants in mouse cells. Double-mutant cells display increased replication stress, hypersensitivity to genotoxic agents, replication speed, and repriming. …”
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A novel de novo GABRA2 gene missense variant causing developmental epileptic encephalopathy in a Chinese patient by Li Yang, Xingyu Wan, Ran Hua, Junhong Jiang, Baotian Wang, Rui Tao, De Wu

“…Structural modeling assessed the potential impact of the variant. A mutant plasmid was constructed and transfected into 293 T cells. …”
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Absence of Rybp Compromises Neural Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells by Gergo Kovacs, Viktoria Szabo, Melinda K. Pirity

“…We found that rybp null mutant ESCs formed less matured neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes from existing progenitors than wild type cells. …”
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First Description of the Clinical Activity of Avapritinib in Sporadic Mesenteric Desmoid Tumor by Rebecca Ganzon, Wei Chen, Gabriel Tinoco

“…In this case report, we describe a 55-year-old man with a history of D842V-mutant gastric GIST who presented several years after complete resection of the GIST with an enlarging soft tissue mass in the small intestine. …”
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<i>Helicobacter pylori</i> HP0135 Is a Small Lipoprotein That Has a Role in Outer Membrane Stability by Doreen Nguyen, Rachel G. Ivester, Kyle Rosinke, Timothy R. Hoover

“…The phenotype of the Δ<i>hp0135</i> mutant suggests HP0135 has roles in stabilizing the cell envelope and cell division.…”
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Inhibition of NLRP3 enhances pro-apoptotic effects of FLT3 inhibition in AML by Helene Sieberer, Michela Luciano, Diana Amend, Constantin Blöchl, Anna Eglseer, Alina Steinkellner, Sebastian Rieser, Ancuela Andosch, Philip Steiner, Laura Hummer, Peter W. Krenn, Hieu-Hoa Dang, Christian G. Huber, Fritz Aberger, Theresa Neuper, Jutta Horejs-Hoeck

“…In contrast, NLRP3 inhibition selectively induced apoptosis in FLT3 mutant AML cell lines, but not in FLT3 wild-type AML cells. …”
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Efficacy and safety of FOLFIRI/aflibercept in second‐line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer in a real‐world population: Prognostic and predictive markers by Ana Fernández Montes, Nieves Martínez Lago, Marta Covela Rúa, Juan de la Cámara Gómez, Paula González Villaroel, José Carlos Méndez Méndez, Mónica Jorge Fernández, Mercedes Salgado Fernández, Margarita Reboredo López, Guillermo Quintero Aldana, María Luz Pellón Augusto, Begoña Graña Suárez, Jesús García Gómez

“…Results Patients had good general status (PS 0‐1 96.2%), tumours were mostly RAS‐mutant (75.6%), synchronous (71.8%), and left‐sided (71.8%). …”
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Overexpressing the ClpC AAA+ unfoldase accelerates developmental cycle progression in Chlamydia trachomatis by Aaron A. Jensen, Saba Firdous, Lei Lei, Derek J. Fisher, Scot P. Ouellette

“…Conversely, disrupting normal ClpC function with an ATPase mutant caused a delay in developmental cycle progression. …”
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