Publications by authors named "C P Bahl"

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  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis patients and produces a virulence factor called Cif, which worsens patient outcomes by decreasing CFTR levels and disrupting healing signals.!* -
  • The virulence factor Cif is regulated by a protein called CifR, which is the first known bacterial transcriptional regulator that senses epoxides, although how it functions at a molecular level has not been fully explored.!* -
  • Through biochemical and structural studies, researchers revealed how CifR binds to DNA and identified key changes in its structure that facilitate gene regulation, highlighting the critical role of the Cys107 residue in sensing epoxides and releasing DNA.!*
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We propose a scalable system of compact, superconducting neutron monitors, which can be embedded in any existing cryogenic infrastructure of a fusion system. The pixel-based nature of the detectors allows them to be placed at intervals following the circumference of a cooled zone, e.g.

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Understanding how proteins evolve under selective pressure is a longstanding challenge. The immensity of the search space has limited efforts to systematically evaluate the impact of multiple simultaneous mutations, so mutations have typically been assessed individually. However, epistasis, or the way in which mutations interact, prevents accurate prediction of combinatorial mutations based on measurements of individual mutations.

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Carbohydrates and glycoproteins modulate key biological functions. However, experimental structure determination of sugar polymers is notoriously difficult. Computational approaches can aid in carbohydrate structure prediction, structure determination, and design.

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A major challenge in protein design is to augment existing functional proteins with multiple property enhancements. Altering several properties likely necessitates numerous primary sequence changes, and novel methods are needed to accurately predict combinations of mutations that maintain or enhance function. Models of sequence co-variation (e.

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