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Microbiology
**an-zhong Zhou
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Open AccessOral pathogens exacerbate Parkinson’s disease by promoting Th1 cell infiltration in mice
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common chronic neurological disorder with a high risk of disability and no cure. Periodontitis is an infectious bacterial disease occurring in periodontal supporting tissues. Stud...
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The signal-to-cutoff ratios to predict HCV infection among people who inject drugs
People who inject drugs (PWIDs) are primarily the high-risk population for HCV infection. This study aims to determine the optimal cut-off values for predicting HCV infection status based on the Signal-to-Cuto...
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Open AccessAdaptive laboratory evolution and shuffling of Escherichia coli to enhance its tolerance and production of astaxanthin
Astaxanthin is one of the strongest antioxidants in nature and has been widely used in aquaculture, food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Numerous stresses caused in the process of a large scale-cultur...
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Open AccessFungal diversity notes 929–1035: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungi
This article is the ninth in the series of Fungal Diversity Notes, where 107 taxa distributed in three phyla, nine classes, 31 orders and 57 families are described and illustrated. Taxa described in the presen...
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Author Correction: Ephrin receptor A2 is an epithelial cell receptor for Epstein–Barr virus entry
In the version of this Letter originally published, the authors reported on the use of 2,5-dimethylpyrrolyl benzoic acid to block Ephrin receptors. In 2011, it was reported that newly synthesized 2,5-dimethylp...
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Ephrin receptor A2 is an epithelial cell receptor for Epstein–Barr virus entry
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is causally associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 10% of gastric carcinoma and various B cell lymphomas 1 . EBV infects both B cells and epithelial c...
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Notes for genera: Ascomycota
Knowledge of the relationships and thus the classification of fungi, has developed rapidly with increasingly widespread use of molecular techniques, over the past 10–15 years, and continues to accelerate. Seve...
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Evaluation of Genetic Manipulation Strategies on d-Lactate Production by Escherichia coli
In order to rationally manipulate the cellular metabolism of Escherichia coli for d-lactate production, single-gene and multiple-gene deletions with mutations in acetate kinase (ackA), phosphotransacetylase (pta)...
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Gene expression profile of Helicobacter pylori in response to growth temperature variation
A Helicobacter pylori whole-genome DNA microarray was constructed to study expression profiles of H. pylori in response to a sudden temperature transfer from 37°C to 20°C. The expression level of the genome at ea...
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Selection pressure on Haemagglutinin genes of H9N2 influenza viruses from different hosts
Positive selection and differential selective pressure analyses were carried out to study Haemagglutinin (HA) genes of H9N2 influenza viruses from different hosts in this paper. Results showed that, although m...
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Positive selection analysis of VP1 Genes of worldwide human enterovirus 71 viruses
Human enterovirus 71 viruses have been long circulating throughout the world. In this study, we performed a positive selection analysis of the VP1 genes of capsid proteins from Enterovirus 71 viruses. Our resu...
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Open AccessEvolutional selection of a combinatorial phage library displaying randomly-rearranged various single domains of immunoglobulin (Ig)-binding proteins (IBPs) with four kinds of Ig molecules
Protein A, protein G and protein L are three well-defined immunoglobulin (Ig)-binding proteins (IBPs), which show affinity for specific sites on Ig of mammalian hosts. Although the precise functions of these m...
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Proteoty**: A new approach studying influenza virus evolution at the protein level
Phylogenetic methods have been widely used to detect the evolution of influenza viruses. However, previous phylogenetic studies of influenza viruses do not make full use of the genetic information at the prote...
