Papers

The following papers have resulted from collaborations with the CBRG and either include CBRG staff as authors or acknowledge CBRG support:

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Papers

•  Nicola Floyd, Neil J. Oldham, Christopher J. Eyles, Stephen Taylor, Dimitry A. Filatov, Mark Brouard, and Benjamin G. Davis Photo-Induced, Family-Specific, Site-Selective Cleavage of TIM-barrel Proteins J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (35), pp.12518-12519

•  Mandeep Kaur, Sebastian Schmeier, Cameron R MacPherson, Oliver Hofmann, Winston A Hide, Stephen Taylor, Nick Willcox and Vladimir B Bajic Prioritizing genes of potential relevance to diseases affected by sex hormones: An example of Myasthenia Gravis BMC Genomics, 2008 Oct 9:481

•  Cynthia Wright, Mariola Edelmann, Kati diGleria, Simon Kollnberger, Holger Kramer, Simon McGowan, Kirsty McHugh, Stephen Taylor, Benedikt Kessler and Paul Bowness Ankylosing Spondylitis Monocytes Show Upregulation of Proteins Involved in Inflammation and the Ubiquitin Proteasome Pathway Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Oct 2008

•  Jill M. Brown, Joanne Green, Ricardo Pires das Neves, Helen A.C. Wallace, Andrew J.H. Smith, Jim Hughes, Nicki Gray, Steve Taylor, William G. Wood, Douglas R. Higgs, Francisco J. Iborra, and Veronica J. Buckle Association between active genes occurs at nuclear speckles and is modulated by chromatin environment J. Cell Biol., Sep 2008, 182: 1083 - 1097

• Snyder LA, McGowan S, Rogers M, Duro E, O'farrell E, Saunders NJ: The Repertoire of Minimal Mobile Elements in the Neisseria Species and Evidence That These are Involved in Horizontal Gene Transfer in Other Bacteria. Mol Biol Evol. 2007 24(12):2802-15

•  Boultwood J, Pellagatti A, Cattan H, Lawrie CH, Giagounidis A, Malcovati L, Porta MG, Jadersten M, Killick S, Fidler C, Cazzola M, Hellstrom-Lindberg E, Wainscoat JS.: Gene expression profiling of CD34(+) cells in patients with the 5q- syndrome. Br J Haematol. 2007 139:578-89

•  Pellagatti A, Jadersten M, Forsblom AM, Cattan H, Christensson B, Emanuelsson EK, Merup M, Nilsson L, Samuelsson J, Sander B, Wainscoat JS, Boultwood J, Hellstrom-Lindberg E.: Lenalidomide inhibits the malignant clone and up-regulates the SPARC gene mapping to the commonly deleted region in 5q- syndrome patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007, 104: 11406-11

•  Lawrie CH, Soneji S, Marafioti T, Cooper CD, Palazzo S, Paterson JC, Cattan H, Enver T, Mager R, Boultwood J, Wainscoat JS, Hatton CS: MicroRNA expression distinguishes between germinal center B cell-like and activated B cell-like subtypes of diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Int J Cancer. 2007, 121: 1156-61.

• Simon McGowan and Steve Taylor (PDF). Poster:- Alternative DNA visualization using a GBrowse database Functional Genomics & Systems Biology conference (Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK).

• Rebekah Whitehead, Tim Overton, Lori Snyder, Simon McGowan, Harry Smith, Jeff Cole, Nigel Saunders: The small FNR regulon of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: comparison with the larger E. coli FNR regulon and interaction with the NarQ-NarP regulon. BMC Genomics 2007, 8: 35

• Nurfilza Ahmat, Lori Snyder, Simon McGowan, John Davies, and Nigel Saunders: Differing 'fever' responses in Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae leading to reduced expression of surface proteins likely to be immunological targets (in preparation).

• Michaël Bon, Simon McGowan, and Peter Cook: Many expressed genes in bacteria and yeast are transcribed only once per cell cycle. The FASEB Journal 2006, 20: 1721-1723.

• Simon McGowan et al: Description of a microarray targeted to genes important in mouse immune responses and differentiation. (in preparation).

• Carla Griffiths, Simon McGowan and William James: Bioinformatic analysis of RNA aptamers that bind to HIV-1BaL gp120. Oral presentation at 158th SGM Meeting, University of Warwick, 3-6 April 2006

Acknowledgements

• Bentley et al: Meningococcal genetic variation mechanisms viewed through comparative analysis of serogroup C strain FAM18. Plos Genet 2007, 3.

• Snyder et al: Comparative overview of the genomic and genetic differences between the pathogenic Neisseria strains and species. Plasmid 2005, 54: 191-218.