Outputs (91)

Effect of water source and feed regime on development and phenotypic quality in Anopheles gambiae (s.l.): prospects for improved mass-rearing techniques towards release programmes. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Effect of water source and feed regime on development and phenotypic quality in Anopheles gambiae (s.l.): prospects for improved mass-rearing techniques towards release programmes. Parasites and Vectors, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3465-0

BACKGROUND:
In many malaria-endemic sub-Saharan countries, insecticide resistance poses a threat to existing mosquito control measures, underscoring the need for complementary control methods such as sterile and/or genetically-modified mosquito rel... Read More about Effect of water source and feed regime on development and phenotypic quality in Anopheles gambiae (s.l.): prospects for improved mass-rearing techniques towards release programmes..

Quantum Sensing in a Physiological-Like Cell Niche Using Fluorescent Nanodiamonds Embedded in Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers. (2019)
Journal Article
Adams, C., Mather, M., Radu, V., Simpson, D., Barcons, A., Price, J., & Levett, S. (2019). Quantum Sensing in a Physiological-Like Cell Niche Using Fluorescent Nanodiamonds Embedded in Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers. Small, 15(22), e1900455. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201900455

Fluorescent nanodiamonds (fNDs) containing nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers are promising candidates for quantum sensing in biological environments. This work describes the fabrication and implementation of electrospun poly lactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA... Read More about Quantum Sensing in a Physiological-Like Cell Niche Using Fluorescent Nanodiamonds Embedded in Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers..

Protein Short-Time Diffusion in a Naturally Crowded Environment. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Protein Short-Time Diffusion in a Naturally Crowded Environment. The journal of physical chemistry letters, 1709 - 1715. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00345

The interior of living cells is a dense and polydisperse suspension of macromolecules. Such a complex system challenges an understanding in terms of colloidal suspensions. As a fundamental test we employ neutron spectroscopy to measure the diffusion... Read More about Protein Short-Time Diffusion in a Naturally Crowded Environment..

Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 6 controls filamentous pathogen interactions and cell wall properties of the tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana leaf epidermis. (2019)
Journal Article
Fawke, S., Torode, T., Gogleva, A., Fich, E., Sørensen, I., Yunusov, T., …Schornack, S. (2019). Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 6 controls filamentous pathogen interactions and cell wall properties of the tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana leaf epidermis. New Phytologist, 1547 - 1559. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15846

The leaf outer epidermal cell wall acts as a barrier against pathogen attack and desiccation, and as such is covered by a cuticle, composed of waxes and the polymer cutin. Cutin monomers are formed by the transfer of fatty acids to glycerol by glycer... Read More about Glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase 6 controls filamentous pathogen interactions and cell wall properties of the tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana leaf epidermis..

Viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase mutants display an altered mutation spectrum resulting in attenuation in both mosquito and vertebrate hosts. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase mutants display an altered mutation spectrum resulting in attenuation in both mosquito and vertebrate hosts. PLOS pathogens a peer-reviewed open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science, e1007610 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1007610

The presence of bottlenecks in the transmission cycle of many RNA viruses leads to a severe reduction of number of virus particles and this occurs multiple times throughout the viral transmission cycle. Viral replication is then necessary for regener... Read More about Viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase mutants display an altered mutation spectrum resulting in attenuation in both mosquito and vertebrate hosts..

Seasonal malaria vector and transmission dynamics in western Burkina Faso (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Seasonal malaria vector and transmission dynamics in western Burkina Faso. Malaria Journal, 113 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-019-2747-5

BACKGROUND
In the context of widespread mosquito resistance to currently available pesticides, novel, precise genetic vector control methods aimed at population suppression or trait replacement are a potentially powerful approach that could compleme... Read More about Seasonal malaria vector and transmission dynamics in western Burkina Faso.

Type I interferon responses of common carp strains with different levels of resistance to koi herpesvirus disease during infection with CyHV-3 or SVCV (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Type I interferon responses of common carp strains with different levels of resistance to koi herpesvirus disease during infection with CyHV-3 or SVCV. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, 809-819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2019.02.022

Carp from breeding strains with different genetic background present diverse levels of resistance to viral pathogens. Carp strains of Asian origin, currently being treated as Cyprinus rubrofuscus L., especially Amur wild carp (AS), were proven to be... Read More about Type I interferon responses of common carp strains with different levels of resistance to koi herpesvirus disease during infection with CyHV-3 or SVCV.

Characterization of Male-Produced Aggregation Pheromone of the Bean Flower Thrips Megalurothrips sjostedti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) (2019)
Journal Article
Kirk. (2019). Characterization of Male-Produced Aggregation Pheromone of the Bean Flower Thrips Megalurothrips sjostedti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Journal of Chemical Ecology, 348-355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-019-01054-8

Aggregation of the bean flower thrips, Megalurothrips sjostedti (Trybom) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), has been observed on cowpea, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. To understand the mechanism underpinning this behavior, we studied the responses of M. sjost... Read More about Characterization of Male-Produced Aggregation Pheromone of the Bean Flower Thrips Megalurothrips sjostedti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae).

Biophysical studies of dynamic CD4 changes implicated in HIV-1 infection (2019)
Thesis
Channell, J. A. (2019). Biophysical studies of dynamic CD4 changes implicated in HIV-1 infection. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413133

Cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) is a receptor protein found on the surface of cells of the immune system and is the primary receptor of the human immuno-deficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) envelope glycoprotein 120 (gp120). The extracellular portion of CD4... Read More about Biophysical studies of dynamic CD4 changes implicated in HIV-1 infection.

Biochemical, biophysical, and structural studies of seed proteins from Moringa oleifera and implications for traditional water purification (2019)
Thesis
Moulin, M. (2019). Biochemical, biophysical, and structural studies of seed proteins from Moringa oleifera and implications for traditional water purification. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413067

Moringa oleifera is a tropical plant that belongs to the Moringaceae family and is native to northern India. Moringa oleifera is called The Miracle Tree because many of its parts have valuable applications. In particular, seed extracts from the plant... Read More about Biochemical, biophysical, and structural studies of seed proteins from Moringa oleifera and implications for traditional water purification.