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    A polytherapy based approach to combat antimicrobial resistance using cubosomes

    A depleted antimicrobial drug pipeline combined with an increasing prevalence of Gram-negative ‘superbugs’ has increased interest in nano therapies to treat antibiotic resistance. As cubosomes and polymyxins d...

    **angfeng Lai, Mei-Ling Han, Yue Ding, Seong Hoong Chow in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Characterization of the Src-regulated kinome identifies SGK1 as a key mediator of Src-induced transformation

    Despite significant progress, our understanding of how specific oncogenes transform cells is still limited and likely underestimates the complexity of downstream signalling events. To address this gap, we use ...

    **uquan Ma, Luxi Zhang, Jiangning Song, Elizabeth Nguyen in Nature Communications (2019)

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    PhosContext2vec: a distributed representation of residue-level sequence contexts and its application to general and kinase-specific phosphorylation site prediction

    Phosphorylation is the most important type of protein post-translational modification. Accordingly, reliable identification of kinase-mediated phosphorylation has important implications for functional annotati...

    Ying Xu, Jiangning Song, Campbell Wilson, James C. Whisstock in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    PhosphoPredict: A bioinformatics tool for prediction of human kinase-specific phosphorylation substrates and sites by integrating heterogeneous feature selection

    Protein phosphorylation is a major form of post-translational modification (PTM) that regulates diverse cellular processes. In silico methods for phosphorylation site prediction can provide a useful and complemen...

    Jiangning Song, Huilin Wang, Jiawei Wang, André Leier in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Knowledge-transfer learning for prediction of matrix metalloprotease substrate-cleavage sites

    Matrix Metalloproteases (MMPs) are an important family of proteases that play crucial roles in key cellular and disease processes. Therefore, MMPs constitute important targets for drug design, development and ...

    Yanan Wang, Jiangning Song, Tatiana T. Marquez-Lago, André Leier in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    HIVed, a knowledgebase for differentially expressed human genes and proteins during HIV infection, replication and latency

    Measuring the altered gene expression level and identifying differentially expressed genes/proteins during HIV infection, replication and latency is fundamental for broadening our understanding of the mechanis...

    Chen Li, Sri H. Ramarathinam, Jerico Revote, Georges Khoury in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    SecretEPDB: a comprehensive web-based resource for secreted effector proteins of the bacterial types III, IV and VI secretion systems

    Bacteria translocate effector molecules to host cells through highly evolved secretion systems. By definition, the function of these effector proteins is to manipulate host cell biology and the sequence, struc...

    Yi An, Jiawei Wang, Chen Li, Jerico Revote, Yang Zhang in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    GlycoMinestruct: a new bioinformatics tool for highly accurate map** of the human N-linked and O-linked glycoproteomes by incorporating structural features

    Glycosylation plays an important role in cell-cell adhesion, ligand-binding and subcellular recognition. Current approaches for predicting protein glycosylation are primarily based on sequence-derived features...

    Fuyi Li, Chen Li, Jerico Revote, Yang Zhang, Geoffrey I. Webb in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    DephosSite: a machine learning approach for discovering phosphotase-specific dephosphorylation sites

    Protein dephosphorylation, which is an inverse process of phosphorylation, plays a crucial role in a myriad of cellular processes, including mitotic cycle, proliferation, differentiation and cell growth. Compa...

    **aofeng Wang, Renxiang Yan, Jiangning Song in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Periscope: quantitative prediction of soluble protein expression in the periplasm of Escherichia coli

    Periplasmic expression of soluble proteins in Escherichia coli not only offers a much-simplified downstream purification process, but also enhances the probability of obtaining correctly folded and biologically a...

    Catherine Ching Han Chang, Chen Li, Geoffrey I. Webb, BengTi Tey in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Global metabolic analyses identify key differences in metabolite levels between polymyxin-susceptible and polymyxin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

    Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii presents a global medical crisis and polymyxins are used as the last-line therapy. This study aimed to identify metabolic differences between polymyxin-susceptible and ...

    Mohd Hafidz Mahamad Maifiah, Soon-Ee Cheah, Matthew D. Johnson in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Crysalis: an integrated server for computational analysis and design of protein crystallization

    The failure of multi-step experimental procedures to yield diffraction-quality crystals is a major bottleneck in protein structure determination. Accordingly, several bioinformatics methods have been successfu...

    Huilin Wang, Liubin Feng, Ziding Zhang, Geoffrey I. Webb, Donghai Lin in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Using contrast patterns between true complexes and random subgraphs in PPI networks to predict unknown protein complexes

    Most protein complex detection methods utilize unsupervised techniques to cluster densely connected nodes in a protein-protein interaction (PPI) network, in spite of the fact that many true complexes are not d...

    Quanzhong Liu, Jiangning Song, **yan Li in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    The exploration of network motifs as potential drug targets from post-translational regulatory networks

    Phosphorylation and proteolysis are among the most common post-translational modifications (PTMs), and play critical roles in various biological processes. More recent discoveries imply that the crosstalks bet...

    **ao-Dong Zhang, Jiangning Song, Peer Bork, **ng-Ming Zhao in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Accurate in silico identification of species-specific acetylation sites by integrating protein sequence-derived and functional features

    Lysine acetylation is a reversible post-translational modification, playing an important role in cytokine signaling, transcriptional regulation and apoptosis. To fully understand acetylation mechanisms, identi...

    Yuan Li, Mingjun Wang, Huilin Wang, Hao Tan, Ziding Zhang in Scientific Reports (2014)