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  1. Article ; Online: High-throughput strategy for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis membrane protein expression conditions using folding reporter GFP.

    Grāve, Kristīne / Bennett, Matthew D / Högbom, Martin

    Protein expression and purification

    2022  Volume 198, Page(s) 106132

    Abstract: Mycobacterium tuberculosis membrane protein biochemistry and structural biology studies are often hampered by challenges in protein expression and selection for well-expressing protein candidates, suitable for further investigation. Here we present a ... ...

    Abstract Mycobacterium tuberculosis membrane protein biochemistry and structural biology studies are often hampered by challenges in protein expression and selection for well-expressing protein candidates, suitable for further investigation. Here we present a folding reporter GFP (frGFP) assay, adapted for M. tuberculosis membrane protein screening in Escherichia coli Rosetta 2 (DE3) and Mycobacterium smegmatis mc
    MeSH term(s) Bacterial Proteins/genetics ; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism ; Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics ; Green Fluorescent Proteins/metabolism ; Membrane Proteins/genetics ; Membrane Proteins/metabolism ; Mycobacterium smegmatis/genetics ; Mycobacterium smegmatis/metabolism ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/metabolism ; Promoter Regions, Genetic
    Chemical Substances Bacterial Proteins ; Membrane Proteins ; Green Fluorescent Proteins (147336-22-9)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-21
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1055455-5
    ISSN 1096-0279 ; 1046-5928
    ISSN (online) 1096-0279
    ISSN 1046-5928
    DOI 10.1016/j.pep.2022.106132
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  2. Article: VALIDATING FORWARD MODELING AND INVERSIONS OF HELIOSEISMIC HOLOGRAPHY MEASUREMENTS.

    DeGrave, K / Braun, D C / Birch, A C / Crouch, A D / Javornik, B

    The Astrophysical journal

    2020  Volume 863, Issue 1

    Abstract: Here we use synthetic data to explore the performance of forward models and inverse methods for helioseismic holography. Specifically, this work presents the first comprehensive test of inverse modeling for flows using lateral-vantage (deep-focus) ... ...

    Abstract Here we use synthetic data to explore the performance of forward models and inverse methods for helioseismic holography. Specifically, this work presents the first comprehensive test of inverse modeling for flows using lateral-vantage (deep-focus) holography. We derive sensitivity functions in the Born approximation. We then use these sensitivity functions in a series of forward models and inversions of flows from a publicly available magnetohydrodynamic quiet-Sun simulation. The forward travel times computed using the kernels generally compare favorably with measurements obtained by applying holography, in a lateral-vantage configuration, on a 15-hour time series of artificial Dopplergrams extracted from the simulation. Inversions for the horizontal flow components are able to reproduce the flows in the upper 3Mm of the domain, but are compromised by noise at greater depths.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-01-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2960-9
    ISSN 0004-637X
    ISSN 0004-637X
    DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/aacffd
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  3. Article ; Online: Automated detection of toxicophores and prediction of mutagenicity using PMCSFG algorithm.

    Schietgat, Leander / Cuissart, Bertrand / De Grave, Kurt / Efthymiadis, Kyriakos / Bureau, Ronan / Crémilleux, Bruno / Ramon, Jan / Lepailleur, Alban

    Molecular informatics

    2023  Volume 42, Issue 3, Page(s) e2200232

    Abstract: Maximum common substructures (MCS) have received a lot of attention in the chemoinformatics community. They are typically used as a similarity measure between molecules, showing high predictive performance when used in classification tasks, while being ... ...

    Abstract Maximum common substructures (MCS) have received a lot of attention in the chemoinformatics community. They are typically used as a similarity measure between molecules, showing high predictive performance when used in classification tasks, while being easily explainable substructures. In the present work, we applied the Pairwise Maximum Common Subgraph Feature Generation (PMCSFG) algorithm to automatically detect toxicophores (structural alerts) and to compute fingerprints based on MCS. We present a comparison between our MCS-based fingerprints and 12 well-known chemical fingerprints when used as features in machine learning models. We provide an experimental evaluation and discuss the usefulness of the different methods on mutagenicity data. The features generated by the MCS method have a state-of-the-art performance when predicting mutagenicity, while they are more interpretable than the traditional chemical fingerprints.
    MeSH term(s) Mutagens/chemistry ; Algorithms ; Mutagenesis ; Machine Learning
    Chemical Substances Mutagens
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-02
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2537668-8
    ISSN 1868-1751 ; 1868-1743
    ISSN (online) 1868-1751
    ISSN 1868-1743
    DOI 10.1002/minf.202200232
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  4. Article ; Online: Structure of

    Grāve, Kristīne / Bennett, Matthew D / Högbom, Martin

    Communications biology

    2019  Volume 2, Page(s) 175

    Abstract: Tuberculosis causes over one million yearly deaths, and drug resistance is rapidly developing. ...

    Abstract Tuberculosis causes over one million yearly deaths, and drug resistance is rapidly developing.
    MeSH term(s) Amino Acid Substitution ; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry ; Bacterial Proteins/genetics ; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism ; CDP-Diacylglycerol-Inositol 3-Phosphatidyltransferase/chemistry ; CDP-Diacylglycerol-Inositol 3-Phosphatidyltransferase/genetics ; CDP-Diacylglycerol-Inositol 3-Phosphatidyltransferase/metabolism ; Catalytic Domain/genetics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Cytidine Diphosphate Diglycerides/metabolism ; Humans ; Inositol Phosphates/metabolism ; Magnesium/metabolism ; Molecular Docking Simulation ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/enzymology ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics ; Static Electricity ; Substrate Specificity
    Chemical Substances Bacterial Proteins ; Cytidine Diphosphate Diglycerides ; Inositol Phosphates ; inositol 3-phosphate (2831-74-5) ; CDP-Diacylglycerol-Inositol 3-Phosphatidyltransferase (EC 2.7.8.11) ; Magnesium (I38ZP9992A)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-05-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 2399-3642
    ISSN (online) 2399-3642
    DOI 10.1038/s42003-019-0427-1
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  5. Article ; Online: On the complexity of haplotyping a microbial community.

    Nicholls, Samuel M / Aubrey, Wayne / De Grave, Kurt / Schietgat, Leander / Creevey, Christopher J / Clare, Amanda

    Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

    2021  Volume 37, Issue 10, Page(s) 1360–1366

    Abstract: Motivation: Population-level genetic variation enables competitiveness and niche specialization in microbial communities. Despite the difficulty in culturing many microbes from an environment, we can still study these communities by isolating and ... ...

    Abstract Motivation: Population-level genetic variation enables competitiveness and niche specialization in microbial communities. Despite the difficulty in culturing many microbes from an environment, we can still study these communities by isolating and sequencing DNA directly from an environment (metagenomics). Recovering the genomic sequences of all isoforms of a given gene across all organisms in a metagenomic sample would aid evolutionary and ecological insights into microbial ecosystems with potential benefits for medicine and biotechnology. A significant obstacle to this goal arises from the lack of a computationally tractable solution that can recover these sequences from sequenced read fragments. This poses a problem analogous to reconstructing the two sequences that make up the genome of a diploid organism (i.e. haplotypes) but for an unknown number of individuals and haplotypes.
    Results: The problem of single individual haplotyping was first formalized by Lancia et al. in 2001. Now, nearly two decades later, we discuss the complexity of 'haplotyping' metagenomic samples, with a new formalization of Lancia et al.'s data structure that allows us to effectively extend the single individual haplotype problem to microbial communities. This work describes and formalizes the problem of recovering genes (and other genomic subsequences) from all individuals within a complex community sample, which we term the metagenomic individual haplotyping problem. We also provide software implementations for a pairwise single nucleotide variant (SNV) co-occurrence matrix and greedy graph traversal algorithm.
    Availability and implementation: Our reference implementation of the described pairwise SNV matrix (Hansel) and greedy haplotype path traversal algorithm (Gretel) is open source, MIT licensed and freely available online at github.com/samstudio8/hansel and github.com/samstudio8/gretel, respectively.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1422668-6
    ISSN 1367-4811 ; 1367-4803
    ISSN (online) 1367-4811
    ISSN 1367-4803
    DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa977
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  6. Article ; Online: The Bacillus anthracis class Ib ribonucleotide reductase subunit NrdF intrinsically selects manganese over iron

    Grave, K. / Griese, J.J. / Berggren, G. / Bennett, M.D. / Hogbom, M.

    2020  

    Abstract: Correct protein metallation in the complex mixture of the cell is a prerequisite for metalloprotein function. While some metals, such as Cu, are commonly chaperoned, specificity towards metals earlier in the Irving Williams series is achieved through ... ...

    Abstract Correct protein metallation in the complex mixture of the cell is a prerequisite for metalloprotein function. While some metals, such as Cu, are commonly chaperoned, specificity towards metals earlier in the Irving Williams series is achieved through other means, the determinants of which are poorly understood. The dimetal carboxylate family of proteins provides an intriguing example, as different proteins, while sharing a common fold and the same 4 carboxylate 2 histidine coordination sphere, are known to require either a Fe Fe, Mn Fe or Mn Mn cofactor for function. We previously showed that the R2lox proteins from this family spontaneously assemble the heterodinuclear Mn Fe cofactor. Here we show that the class Ib ribonucleotide reductase R2 protein from Bacillus anthracis spontaneously assembles a Mn Mn cofactor in vitro, under both aerobic and anoxic conditions, when the metal free protein is subjected to incubation with MnII and FeII in equal concentrations. This observation provides an example of a protein scaffold intrinsically predisposed to defy the Irving Williams series and supports the assumption that the Mn Mn cofactor is the biologically relevant cofactor in vivo. Substitution of a second coordination sphere residue changes the spontaneous metallation of the protein to predominantly form a heterodinuclear Mn Fe cofactor under aerobic conditions and a Mn Mn metal center under anoxic conditions. Together, the results describe the intrinsic metal specificity of class Ib RNR and provide insight into control mechanisms for protein metallation
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    Subject code 612
    Language Undetermined
    Publishing date 2020-01-01
    Publishing country de
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article: A pharmaco-epidemiological study of antibacterial treatments and bacterial diseases in Norwegian aquaculture from 2011 to 2016.

    Lillehaug, Atle / Børnes, Christine / Grave, Kari

    Diseases of aquatic organisms

    2018  Volume 128, Issue 2, Page(s) 117–125

    Abstract: The sales and prescription of antibacterials for use in Norwegian fish-farming according to diagnosis, fish species and production stage from 2011 to 2016 are analysed. The study is based on antibacterial sales data from wholesalers, pharmacies and feed ... ...

    Abstract The sales and prescription of antibacterials for use in Norwegian fish-farming according to diagnosis, fish species and production stage from 2011 to 2016 are analysed. The study is based on antibacterial sales data from wholesalers, pharmacies and feed mills and on prescription data obtained from a register of all prescriptions of antibacterials used in farmed fish. The results show that the fish-farming industry uses very small volumes of antibacterials. In 2016, a total of 212 kg were sold; the only antibacterial substances sold were florfenicol and oxolinic acid. The total amount corresponded to 0.16 mg kg-1 fish slaughtered, or to approximately 0.14% of the fish produced that year. The majority of prescriptions were for non-specific bacterial infections; as most common diseases are under control by vaccination. Most prescriptions for salmonid fish were during early production stages. However, due to higher biomasses of fish, the highest quantities of antibacterials were prescribed during the seawater production phase of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. An increasing proportion of the prescriptions was for other species, including cleaner fish used for salmon lice control; in 2016 most prescriptions were for this fish category. Due to the negligible use of antibacterials in Norwegian aquaculture, in particular for on-growers, the risk of development of antimicrobial resistance and its transmission to humans through consumption of fish is considered negligible.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/administration & dosage ; Aquaculture ; Bacterial Infections/drug therapy ; Bacterial Infections/veterinary ; Drug Utilization ; Fish Diseases/drug therapy ; Fish Diseases/microbiology ; Fishes ; Norway
    Chemical Substances Anti-Bacterial Agents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-05-07
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 0177-5103
    ISSN 0177-5103
    DOI 10.3354/dao03219
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  8. Article ; Online: The management of risk arising from the use of antimicrobial agents in veterinary medicine in EU/EEA countries - a review.

    Törneke, K / Torren-Edo, J / Grave, K / Mackay, D K J

    Journal of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics

    2015  Volume 38, Issue 6, Page(s) 519–528

    Abstract: Antimicrobials are essential medicines for the treatment of many microbial infections in humans and animals. Only a small number of antimicrobial agents with new mechanisms of action have been authorized in recent years for use in either humans or ... ...

    Abstract Antimicrobials are essential medicines for the treatment of many microbial infections in humans and animals. Only a small number of antimicrobial agents with new mechanisms of action have been authorized in recent years for use in either humans or animals. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) arising from the use of antimicrobial agents in veterinary medicine is a concern for public health due to the detection of increasing levels of resistance in foodborne zoonotic bacteria, particularly gram-negative bacteria, and due to the detection of determinants of resistance such as Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL) in bacteria from animals and in foodstuffs of animal origin. The importance and the extent of the emergence and spread of AMR from animals to humans has yet to be quantified. Likewise, the relative contribution that the use of antimicrobial agents in animals makes to the overall risk to human from AMR is currently a subject of debate that can only be resolved through further research. Nevertheless, risk managers have agreed that the impact on public health of the use of antimicrobials in animals should be minimized as far as possible and a variety of measures have been introduced by different authorities in the EU to achieve this objective. This article reviews a range of measures that have been implemented within European countries to reduce the occurrence and the risk of transmission of AMR to humans following the use of antimicrobial agents in animals and briefly describes some of the alternatives to the use of antimicrobial agents that are being developed.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Animals, Domestic/microbiology ; Anti-Infective Agents/adverse effects ; Anti-Infective Agents/therapeutic use ; Drug Resistance, Microbial ; European Union ; Humans ; Risk Factors ; Risk Management/methods ; Veterinary Medicine/methods
    Chemical Substances Anti-Infective Agents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-12
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 435216-6
    ISSN 1365-2885 ; 0140-7783
    ISSN (online) 1365-2885
    ISSN 0140-7783
    DOI 10.1111/jvp.12226
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  9. Article ; Online: The Bacillus anthracis class Ib ribonucleotide reductase subunit NrdF intrinsically selects manganese over iron.

    Grāve, Kristīne / Griese, Julia J / Berggren, Gustav / Bennett, Matthew D / Högbom, Martin

    Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry

    2020  Volume 25, Issue 4, Page(s) 571–582

    Abstract: Correct protein metallation in the complex mixture of the cell is a prerequisite for metalloprotein function. While some metals, such as Cu, are commonly chaperoned, specificity towards metals earlier in the Irving-Williams series is achieved through ... ...

    Abstract Correct protein metallation in the complex mixture of the cell is a prerequisite for metalloprotein function. While some metals, such as Cu, are commonly chaperoned, specificity towards metals earlier in the Irving-Williams series is achieved through other means, the determinants of which are poorly understood. The dimetal carboxylate family of proteins provides an intriguing example, as different proteins, while sharing a common fold and the same 4-carboxylate 2-histidine coordination sphere, are known to require either a Fe/Fe, Mn/Fe or Mn/Mn cofactor for function. We previously showed that the R2lox proteins from this family spontaneously assemble the heterodinuclear Mn/Fe cofactor. Here we show that the class Ib ribonucleotide reductase R2 protein from Bacillus anthracis spontaneously assembles a Mn/Mn cofactor in vitro, under both aerobic and anoxic conditions, when the metal-free protein is subjected to incubation with Mn
    MeSH term(s) Bacillus anthracis/enzymology ; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry ; Bacterial Proteins/genetics ; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Iron/chemistry ; Iron/metabolism ; Manganese/chemistry ; Manganese/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation ; Ribonucleotide Reductases/chemistry ; Ribonucleotide Reductases/genetics ; Ribonucleotide Reductases/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Bacterial Proteins ; Manganese (42Z2K6ZL8P) ; Iron (E1UOL152H7) ; NrdF protein, bacteria (EC 1.17.4.-) ; Ribonucleotide Reductases (EC 1.17.4.-)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-04-15
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1464026-0
    ISSN 1432-1327 ; 0949-8257
    ISSN (online) 1432-1327
    ISSN 0949-8257
    DOI 10.1007/s00775-020-01782-3
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  10. Article: The use of the hand and wrist radiograph in skeletal age assessment; and why skeletal age assessment is important.

    Grave, K

    Australian orthodontic journal

    1994  Volume 13, Issue 3, Page(s) 196

    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Age Determination by Skeleton/methods ; Hand/diagnostic imaging ; Humans ; Maxillofacial Development ; Patient Care Planning ; Wrist/diagnostic imaging
    Language English
    Publishing date 1994-10
    Publishing country Australia
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 410066-9
    ISSN 0587-3908
    ISSN 0587-3908
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