Female FVB/N and Tg.Ac (hemizygotes) mice 3-5 weeks of age were purchased from Harlan UK and Taconic UK, respectively. The mice were contained in an isolator and maintained at 19C with 50% relative humidity and a 12-hour light-dark cycle. Following a 1 week acclimatisation period the dorsal skin o...
Central carbon metabolism is highly conserved across microbial species, but can catalyze very different pathways depending on the organism and their ecological niche. Here, we study the dynamic reorganization of central metabolism after switches between the two major opposing pathway configurations ...
This study aimed to obtain a holistic view of remission in pediatric Crohn’s Disease (CD) by integrating six omics datasets from three anatomical compartments.
Methods
Patients with fecal calprotectin below 250 mg/kg were c...
An oligo array based high-resolution analysis of copy number alterations in 171 primary breast tumors of relatively small size and low NPI, and 49 breast cancer cell-lines. Objectives of the study were to study the molecular taxonomy and the genomic aberration patterns in a breast cancer cohort repr...
The maturation of dendritic cells (DCs) after exposure to microbial products or inflammatory mediators plays a critical role in initiating the immune response. We found that maturation can also occur under steady state conditions, triggered by alterations in E-cadherin-mediated DC-DC adhesion. Sele...
Some T's in nuclear DNA of trypanosomes and Leishmania are hydroxylated and glucosylated to yield base J (?-D-glucosyl-hydroxymethyluracil). In Leishmania about 99% of J is located in telomeric repeats. We show here that most of the remaining J is located at chromosome-internal RNA Polymerase II ter...
Clostridium botulinum is a heterogeneous Gram-positive species that comprises four genetically and physiologically distinct groups of bacteria that share the ability to produce botulinum neurotoxin, the most poisonous toxin known to man, and the causative agent of botulism, a severe disease of human...