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ASM Articles in the Spotlight Print E-mail

ASM Articles in the Spotlight. The ASM journals Eukaryotic Cell, Infection and Immunity, and the Journal of Virology highlight current articles of interest in their Spotlight sections:
http://ec.asm.org/current.dtl#SPOTLIGHT
http://iai.asm.org/current.dtl#SPOTLIGHT
http://jvi.asm.org/current.dtl#SPOTLIGHT

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New Results Suggest Darwinian Selection Against Asparagine-Linked Glycans in Plasmodium and Toxoplasma Print E-mail

 

Asparagine-linked glycans (N-glycans) are nearly ubiquitous modifications of secreted and membrane proteins in the ER lumen.
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Monitoring Antibiotic Resistance Evolution: an Interdisciplinary Approach Print E-mail

 

Class A extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) have been reported with increasing frequency since they were first described in 1983.
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New Method for Generating Novel Proteins–Fast! Print E-mail

 

Directed protein evolution often employs random mutagenesis to spawn mutant sequences of genes of interest that can be expressed and screened to identify new proteins with altered characteristics.
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Genome Sequenced for Clostridium with Biomass Potential Print E-mail

 

Clostridium cellulovorans 743B is an anaerobic and mesophilic spore-forming bacterium that may prove useful for production of fuels from biomass.
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