Vanderbilt University | School of Medicine – Basic Science

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First or corresponding authors are identified with an asterisk. Faculty with appointments in Basic Sciences are listed in red. Only Vanderbilt collaborators are listed except for first authors.

Week of April 8

By Basic Sciences department

Biochemistry

Gyrase and Topoisomerase IV: Recycling Old Targets for New Antibacterials to Combat Fluoroquinolone Resistance. ACS Infectious Diseases.
Jessica Collins, Neil Osheroff.

Cell and Developmental Biology

The Hallmarks of Precancer. Cancer Discovery.
Mary Stangis (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Zhengyi Chen, Sarah Glass, Robert Coffey, Martha Shrubsole, Ken Lau.

Pharmacology

Physical Activity and Incident Obesity Across the Spectrum of Genetic Risk for Obesity. JAMA Network Open.
Evan Brittain, Lide Han, Jeffrey Annis, Hiral Master, Andrew Hughes, Dan Roden, Paul Harris, Douglas Ruderfer.

Highlighted in VUMC News.
Targeting Soluble Amyloid-Beta Oligomers With a Novel Nanobody (preprint). Research Square.
Justin Haynes, Clayton Whitmore, William Behof, Charlotte Landman, Henry Ong, Andrew Feld, Isabelle Suero, Celeste Greer, John Gore, Brian Wadzinski, Benjamin Spiller, Wellington Pham*.

Other biomedical basic sciences papers

Potent HPIV3-neutralizing IGHV5-51 Antibodies Identified from Multiple Individuals Show L Chain and CDRH3 Promiscuity. Journal of Immunology.
Alexandra Abu-Shmais, Alexis Janke, Rachael Wolters, Clinton Holt, Nagarajan Raju, Robert Carnahan, James Crowe Jr., Ivelin Georgiev*.

Highlighted in VUMC News.

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