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    Roles and regulation of the heat shock σ factor σ32 in Escherichia coli

    Takashi Yura, Yasuo Kawasaki, Noriko Kusukawa, Hiroki Nagai in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1990)

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    Microbially cleaved immunoglobulins are sensed by the innate immune receptor LILRA2

    Microbial proteases degrade a variety of host proteins13. However, it has remained largely unknown why microorganisms have evolved to acquire such proteases and how the host responds to microbially degraded prod...

    Kouyuki Hirayasu, Fumiji Saito, Tadahiro Suenaga, Kyoko Shida in Nature Microbiology (2016)

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    Partial EMT/MET: An Army of One

    As our understanding of Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) increases, the original binary concept of E versus M no longer fits with experimental evidence. Re-definition of the EMT paradigm as spectral tra...

    Sofiane Hamidi, Hiroki Nagai, Guojun Sheng in The Epithelial-to Mesenchymal Transition (2021)

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    Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Phage SaGU1 that Infects Staphylococcus aureus Clinical Isolates from Patients with Atopic Dermatitis

    The bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, which colonizes healthy human skin, may cause diseases, such as atopic dermatitis (AD). Treatment for such AD cases involves antibiotic use; however, alternate treatments are ...

    Yuzuki Shimamori, Ajeng K. Pramono, Tomoe Kitao, Tohru Suzuki in Current Microbiology (2021)

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    Dosage compensation of Z sex chromosome genes in avian fibroblast cells

    In birds, sex is genetically determined; however, the molecular mechanism is not well-understood. The avian Z sex chromosome (chrZ) lacks whole chromosome inactivation, in contrast to the mammalian chrX. To in...

    Ruslan Deviatiiarov, Hiroki Nagai, Galym Ismagulov, Anastasia Stupina in Genome Biology (2023)