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Browsing Research Articles (Biochemistry) by Title
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Saasa, Valentine; Radebe, Nonkululeko
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019-09)
The annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting is an extremely prestigious 1-week event at which bright young scientists from across the globe are able to meet Nobel laureates to discuss matters of science. These meetings were ...
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Messal, Mandy; Slippers, Bernard; Naidoo, Sanushka; Bezuidt, Keoagile Ignatius Oliver; Kemler, Martin
(MDPI, 2019-10)
Fungi represent a common and diverse part of the microbial communities that associate
with plants. They also commonly colonise various plant parts asymptomatically. The molecular
mechanisms of these interactions are, ...
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Harmse, Rozanne; Coertzen, Dina; Wong, Ho Ning; Smit, Frans J.; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Reader, Janette; Nondaba, Sindisiwe; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie; Haynes, Richard K.; N'Da, David D.
(Wiley, 2017-12)
Dihydroartemisinin (DHA), either used in its own right or as the active drug generated in vivo from the other artemisinins in current clinical use—artemether and artesunate—induces quiescence in ring‐stage parasites of ...
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Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Reader, Janette; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-06-09)
Plasmodium parasites have a complex life cycle that includes development in the human
host as well as the Anopheles vector. Successful transmission of the parasite between its
host and vector therefore requires the ...
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Olivier, Tania; Loots, Leigh; Kok, Michelle; De Villiers, Marianne; Reader, Janette; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie; Arnott, Gareth E.; De Villiers, Katherine A.
(Wiley, 2022-05)
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Van den Berg, Noelani; Swart, Velushka; Backer, Robert; Fick, Alicia; Wienk, Raven; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Prabhu, Sreedhara Ashok
(MDPI, 2021-03-01)
AfricaAvocado (Persea americana) is an economically important fruit crop world-wide, the production of which is challenged by notable root pathogens such as Phytophthora cinnamomi and Rosellinia necatrix. Arguably the most ...
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Boughan, Shareen; Potgieter, A. Christiaan; Van Staden, Vida
(Society for General Microbiology, 2020-04)
African horse sickness virus (AHSV) is the causative agent of the often fatal disease African horse sickness in equids. The non-structural protein NS4 is the only AHSV protein that localizes to the nucleus. Here we report ...
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Wall, Gayle V.; Wright, Isabella M.; Barnardo, Carin; Erasmus, Baltus J.; Van Staden, Vida; Potgieter, A. Christiaan
(Elsevier, 2021-06)
African horse sickness virus (AHSV) non-structural protein NS4 is a nucleocytoplasmic protein that is expressed in the heart, lung, and spleen of infected horses, binds dsDNA, and colocalizes with promyelocytic leukemia ...
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Lories, Bram; Belpaire, Tom E.R.; Yssel, A.E.J. (Anna); Ramon, Herman; Steenackers, Hans P.
(Elsevier, 2020-12)
Salmonella biofilms are a common cause of contaminations in the food or feed industry. In a screening for novel compounds to combat biofilm-associated foodborne outbreaks, we identified agaric acid as a Salmonella Typhimurium ...
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Krivak-Tetley, Flora E.; Lantschner, M. Victoria; Lombardero, Maria J.; Garnas, Jeffrey R.; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Villacide, Jose M.; Slippers, Bernard; Corley, Juan C.; Liebhold, Andrew M.; Ayres, Matthew P.
(Elsevier, 2021-03)
Invasive insects and pathogens are prominent tree mortality agents in forests around the world, and the magnitude of their impacts is increasing. Comparative studies across multiple populations can be helpful for the ...
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Sayari, Mohammad; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Adegeye, O.O.; Marincowitz, Seonju; Wingfield, Brenda D.
(Elsevier, 2019-09)
Functional association between genomic loci and specific biological traits remains lacking in many fungi, including the African tree pathogen Ceratocystis albifundus. This is mainly because of the absence of suitable ...
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Phoma, Sandra; Vikram, Surendra; Jansson, Janet K.; Ansorge, Isabelle J.; Cowan, Don A.; Van de Peer, Yves; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter
(Nature Publising Group, 2018-07-12)
Understanding the impact of oceanographic features on marine microbial ecosystems remains a major
ecological endeavour. Here we assess microbial diversity, community structure and functional capacity
along the Agulhas ...
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Palmer, Marike; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Blom, Jochen; Hedlund, Brian P.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas)
(Microbiology Society, 2020-04)
In prokaryotic taxonomy, a set of criteria is commonly used to delineate species. These criteria are generally based on cohesion at the phylogenetic, phenotypic and genomic levels. One such criterion shown to have promise ...
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Van der Westhuizen, Magdalien; Steenkamp, Lucia; Steenkamp, Paul; Apostolides, Zeno
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-03)
The principal pigments present in black tea, theaflavins (TF), have been indicated to be of potential clinical significance in various fields of research which has been hampered by the very low levels of TFs from black tea ...
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Kumwenda, Benjamin; Litthauer, Derek; Reva, Oleg N.
(BioMed Central, 2014-09-25)
BACKGROUND: Bacteria of genus Thermus inhabit both man-made and natural thermal environments. Several
Thermus species have shown biotechnological potential such as reduction of heavy metals which is essential for
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Tonfack, Libert B.; Hussey, Steven Grant; Veale, Adri; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Mizrachi, Eshchar
(MDPI Publishing, 2019-09-18)
SECONDARY WALL-ASSOCIATED NAC DOMAIN1 (SND1) is a master regulator of fibre
secondary wall deposition in Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), with homologs in other angiosperms
and gymnosperms. However, it is poorly ...
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Kumwenda, Benjamin; Litthauer, Derek; Bishop, Ozlem Tastan; Reva, Oleg N.
(Libertas Academica Ltd., 2013-08)
Elucidation of evolutionary factors that enhance protein thermostability is a critical problem and was the focus of this work on Thermus species. Pairs of orthologous sequences of T. scotoductus SA-01 and T. thermophilus ...
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Bekker, Shani; Burger, Pieter Buys; Van Staden, Vida
(Elsevier, 2017-03)
VP7 is the major core protein of orbiviruses and is essential for virion assembly. African horse sickness virus (AHSV) VP7 self-assembles into highly insoluble crystalline particles – an attribute that may be related to ...
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Niemand, Jandeli; Burger, Pieter Buys; Verlinden, Bianca K.; Reader, Janette; Joubert, Annie M.; Kaiser, Annette; Louw, Abraham Izak; Kirk, Kiaran; Phanstiel IV, Otto; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie
(American Society for Microbiology, 2013-06)
Anthracene-polyamine conjugates inhibit the in vitro proliferation of the
intraerythrocytic human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, with IC50 values in
the nM-μM range. The compounds are taken up into the ...
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Sapsford, Sarah J.; Paap, Trudy; Hardy, Giles E. St. J.; Burgess, Treena I.
(MDPI, 2021-01-29)
In forest ecosystems, habitat fragmentation negatively impacts stand structure and
biodiversity; the resulting fragmented patches of forest have distinct, disturbed edge
habitats that experience different environmental ...