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  • Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Prins, Bram P.; Abdollahi, Mohammadreza; Armstrong, Nicola J.; Aslibekyan, Stella; Bain, Lisa; Jefferis, Barbara; Baumert, Jens; Beekman, Marian; Ben-Shlomo, Yoav; Bis, Joshua C.; Mitchell, Braxton D.; De Geus, Eco; Delgado, Graciela E.; Marek, Diana; Eriksson, Joel; Kajantie, Eero; Kanoni, Stavroula; Kemp, John P.; Lu, Chen; Marioni, Riccardo E.; McLachlan, Stela; Milaneschi, Yuri; Nolte, Ilja M.; Petrelis, Alexandros M.; Porcu, Eleonora; Sabater-Lleal, Maria; Naderi, Elnaz; Seppälä, Ilkka; Shah, Tina; Singhal, Gaurav; Standl, Marie; Teumer, Alexander; Thalamuthu, Anbupalam; Thiering, Elisabeth; Trompet, Stella; Ballantyne, Christie M.; Benjamin, Emelia J.; Casas, Juan P.; Toben, Catherine; Dedoussis, George; Deelen, Joris; Durda, Peter; Engmann, Jorgen; Feitosa, Mary F.; Grallert, Harald; Hammarstedt, Ann; Harris, Sarah E.; Homuth, Georg; Guðnason, Vilmundur G. (2021-01-30)
    Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a multifunctional cytokine with both pro-A nd anti-inflammatory properties with a heritability estimate of up to 61%. The circulating levels of IL-6 in blood have been associated with an increased risk of complex disease ...
  • Lahti, Jari; Tuominen, Samuli; Yang, Qiong; Pergola, Giulio; Ahmad, Shahzad; Amin, Najaf; Armstrong, Nicola J.; Beiser, Alexa; Bey, Katharina; Bis, Joshua C.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Bressler, Jan; Campbell, Archie; Campbell, Harry; Chen, Qiang; Corley, Janie; Cox, Simon R.; Davies, Gail; De Jager, Philip L.; Derks, Eske M.; Faul, Jessica D.; Fitzpatrick, Annette L.; Fohner, Alison E.; Ford, Ian; Fornage, Myriam; Gerring, Zachary; Grabe, Hans J.; Grodstein, Francine; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Simonsick, Eleanor; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Joshi, Peter K.; Kajantie, Eero; Kaprio, Jaakko; Karell, Pauliina; Kleineidam, Luca; Knol, Maria J.; Kochan, Nicole A.; Kwok, John B.; Leber, Markus; Lam, Max; Lee, Teresa; Li, Shuo; Loukola, Anu; Luck, Tobias; Marioni, Riccardo E.; Mather, Karen A.; Medland, Sarah; Mirza, Saira S.; Nalls, Mike A. (2022-08-16)
    Understanding the genomic basis of memory processes may help in combating neurodegenerative disorders. Hence, we examined the associations of common genetic variants with verbal short-term memory and verbal learning in adults without dementia or stroke ...
  • Wang, Qiong; Karvelsson, Sigurdur Trausti; Kotronoulas, Aristotelis; Gudjonsson, Thorarinn; Halldorsson, Skarphedinn; Rolfsson, Ottar (2022-02-01)
    Breast cancer cells that have undergone partial epithelial- mesenchymal transition (EMT) are believed to be more invasive than cells that have completed EMT. To study metabolic reprogramming in different mesenchymal states, we analyzed protein expression ...
  • Pei, Jiayi; Harakalova, Magdalena; Treibel, Thomas A.; Lumbers, R. Thomas; Boukens, Bastiaan J.; Efimov, Igor R.; Van Dinter, Jip T.; González, Arantxa; López, Begoña; El Azzouzi, Hamid; Van Den Dungen, Noortje; Van Dijk, Christian G.M.; Krebber, Merle M.; Den Ruijter, Hester M.; Pasterkamp, Gerard; Duncker, Dirk J.; Nieuwenhuis, Edward E.S.; De Weger, Roel; Huibers, Manon M.; Vink, Aryan; Moore, Jason H.; Moon, James C.; Verhaar, Marianne C.; Kararigas, Georgios; Mokry, Michal; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Cheng, Caroline (2020-07-14)
    Background: H3K27ac histone acetylome changes contribute to the phenotypic response in heart diseases, particularly in end-stage heart failure. However, such epigenetic alterations have not been systematically investigated in remodeled non-failing human ...
  • Luperchio, Teresa Romeo; Applegate, Carolyn D.; Bodamer, Olaf; Björnsson, Hans Tómas (2020-02-01)
  • Ingthorsson, Saevar; Andersen, K; Hilmarsdóttir, Bylgja; Mælandsmo, Gunhild M; Magnusson, Magnus Karl; Gudjonsson, Thorarinn (Springer Nature, 2015-12-21)
    The members of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) kinase family are important players in breast morphogenesis and cancer. EGFR2/HER2 and EGFR expression have a prognostic value in certain subtypes of breast cancer such as HER2-amplified, ...
  • Beblo-Vranesevic, Kristina; Bohmeier, Maria; Schleumer, Sven; Rabbow, Elke; Perras, Alexandra K.; Moissl-Eichinger, Christine; Schwendner, Petra; Cockell, Charles S.; Vannier, Pauline; Marteinsson, Viggo T.; Monaghan, Euan P.; Riedo, Andreas; Ehrenfreund, Pascale; Garcia-Descalzo, Laura; Gómez, Felipe; Malki, Moustafa; Amils, Ricardo; Gaboyer, Frédéric; Hickman-Lewis, Keyron; Westall, Frances; Cabezas, Patricia; Walter, Nicolas; Rettberg, Petra (2020)
    Five bacterial (facultatively) anaerobic strains, namely Buttiauxella sp. MASE-IM-9, Clostridium sp. MASE-IM-4, Halanaerobium sp. MASE-BB-1, Trichococcus sp. MASE-IM-5, and Yersinia intermedia MASE-LG-1 isolated from different extreme natural environments ...
  • Gargallo-Garriga, Albert; Ayala-Roque, Marta; Sardans, Jordi; Bartrons, Mireia; Granda, Victor; Sigurdsson, Bjarni D.; Leblans, Niki; Oravec, Michal; Urban, Otmar; Janssens, Ivan; Penuelas, Josep (MDPI AG, 2017-08-23)
    Climate change is stronger at high than at temperate and tropical latitudes. The natural geothermal conditions in southern Iceland provide an opportunity to study the impact of warming on plants, because of the geothermal bedrock channels that induce ...
  • Hetzke, Thilo; Vogel, Marc; Gophane, Dnyaneshwar B.; Weigand, Julia E.; Suess, Beatrix; Sigurdsson, Snorri; Prisner, Thomas F. (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2018-10-18)
    The tetracycline-binding RNA aptamer (TC-aptamer) is a synthetic riboswitch that binds the antibiotic tetracycline (TC) with exceptionally high affinity. Although a crystal structure exists of the TC-bound state, little is known about the conformational ...
  • Zhang, Li; Pilarowski, Genay; Pich, Emilio Merlo; Nakatani, Atsushi; Dunlop, John; Baba, Rina; Matsuda, Satoru; Daini, Masaki; Hattori, Yasushi; Matsumoto, Shigemitsu; Ito, Mitsuhiro; Kimura, Haruhide; Björnsson, Hans Tómas (2021-03-12)
    Kabuki syndrome (KS) is a rare cause of intellectual disability primarily caused by loss-of-function mutations in lysine-specific methyltransferase 2D ( KMT2D), which normally adds methyl marks to lysine 4 on histone 3. Previous studies have shown that ...
  • Pavel, Alisa; Del Giudice, Giusy; Fratello, Michele; Ghemtio, Leo; Di Lieto, Antonio; Yli-Kauhaluoma, Jari; Xhaard, Henri; Federico, Antonio; Serra, Angela; Greco, Dario (2023-06-01)
    MOTIVATION: Transcriptomic data can be used to describe the mechanism of action (MOA) of a chemical compound. However, omics data tend to be complex and prone to noise, making the comparison of different datasets challenging. Often, transcriptomic ...
  • Lu, Yi; Eiriksson, Finnur Freyr; Thorsteinsdóttir, Margrét; Cronberg, Nils; Simonsen, Henrik Toft (2023-02-01)
    Bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) have interested researchers because of their high chemical diversity and their potential uses in pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic industries. Specifically, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (l-PUFA) ...
  • Zimta, Alina-Andreea; Sigurjonsson, Olafur Eysteinn; Gulei, Diana; Tomuleasa, Ciprian (MDPI AG, 2020-08-15)
    Nowadays, advancements in the oncology sector regarding diagnosis methods allow us to specifically detect an increased number of cancer patients, some of them in incipient stages. However, one of the main issues consists of the invasive character of ...
  • Eysteinsson, Thor; García-Llorca, Andrea; Hardarson, Arnar Oessur; Vullo, Daniela; Carta, Fabrizio; Supuran, Claudiu T. (2023-05-02)
    It has been demonstrated previously that a variety of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (CAIs) can induce vasodilation in pre-contracted retinal arteriolar segments although with different efficacy and potency. Since the CAIs tested so far are able to ...
  • Lomana, Adrián López García de; Vilhjálmsson, Arnar Ingi; McGarrity, Sarah; Sigurðardóttir, Rósa S.; Anuforo, Osk U.U.; Viktorsdóttir, Alexía Rós; Kotronoulas, Aris; Bergmann, Andreas; Franzson, Leifur; Halldórsson, Haraldur; Henriksen, Hanne H.; Wade, Charles E.; Johansson, Pär Ingemar; Rolfsson, Óttar (2022-03-15)
    Disruption to endothelial cell homeostasis results in an extensive variety of human pathologies that are particularly relevant to major trauma. Circulating catecholamines, such as adrenaline and noradrenaline, activate endothelial adrenergic receptors ...
  • Reynisdóttir, Tinna; Anderson, Kimberley Jade; Boukas, Leandros; Björnsson, Hans Tómas (2022-06-21)
    Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome (WDSTS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by de novo variants in KMT2A, which encodes a multi-domain histone methyltransferase. To gain insight into the currently unknown pathogenesis of WDSTS, we examined the spatial ...
  • Petel, Arthur; Jacob, Deborah Cecelia Rose; Aubonnet, Romain; Frismand, Solène; Petersen, Hannes; Gargiulo, Paolo; Perrin, Philippe (2022-12-16)
    Postural instability and loss of vestibular and somatosensory acuity are among the signs encountered in Parkinson's disease (PD). Visual dependency is described in PD. These modifications of sensory input hierarchy are predictors of motion sickness ...
  • Butler, Madeleine E B; Jansen van Rensburg, Melissa J; Karani, Angela; Mvera, Benedict; Akech, Donald; Akter, Asma; Forrest, Calum; van Tonder, Andries J; Quirk, Sigríður Júlía; Haraldsson, Gunnsteinn Ægir; Bentley, Stephen D; Erlendsdóttir, Helga; Haraldsson, Ásgeir; Kristinsson, Karl Gústaf; Scott, J Anthony G; Brueggemann, Angela B (2023-07)
    Bacteriocins are antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteria to inhibit other bacteria in the surrounding environment. Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of disease worldwide and colonises the healthy human nasopharynx, where it competes for ...
  • Wesolowska, Natalia; Reynisdóttir, Sigrún; Ludwig, Michael Z.; Kreitman, Martin; Palsson, Arnar (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-05-01)
    Changes in regulatory DNA contribute to phenotypic differences within and between taxa. Comparative studies show that many transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) are conserved between species whereas functional studies reveal that some mutations ...
  • Sunds, Anne Vuholm; Roland, Ida Schwartz; Sundekilde, Ulrik Kræmer; Thesbjerg, Martin Nørmark; Robinson, Randall; Bunyatratchata, Apichaya; Glantz, Maria; Paulsson, Marie; Leskauskaite, Daiva; Pihlanto, Anne; Inglingstad, Ragnhild; Devold, Tove Gulbrandsen; Vegarud, Gerd Elisabeth; Birgisdóttir, Bryndís Eva; Guðjónsdóttir, María; Barile, Daniela; Larsen, Lotte Bach; Poulsen, Nina Aagaard (2021-09-28)
    Little is known about the extent of variation and activity of naturally occurring milk glycosidases and their potential to degrade milk glycans. A multi-omics approach was used to investigate the relationship between glycosidases and important bioactive ...