In-vitro activity of ceftolozane/tazobactam against recent clinical bacterial isolates from two Saudi Arabian hospitals.

Background: Antimicrobial resistance is continuously increasing. Adding tazobactam to ceftolozane improves the latter's activity spectrum against resistant strains. We aimed to determine the susceptibility of recently collected bacterial isolates to ceftolozane/tazobactam (C/T) and other antibiotics.

Performance of protein disorder prediction programs on amino acid substitutions.

Many proteins contain intrinsically disordered regions, which may be crucial for function, but on the other hand be related to the pathogenicity of variants. Prediction programs have been developed to detect disordered regions from sequences and used to predict the consequences of variants, although their performance for this task has not been assessed. We tested the performance of protein disorder prediction programs in detecting changes to disorder caused by amino acid substitutions.

Classification of mismatch repair gene missense variants with PON-MMR.

Numerous mismatch repair (MMR) gene variants have been identified in Lynch syndrome and other cancer patients, but knowledge about their pathogenicity is frequently missing. The diagnosis and treatment of patients would benefit from knowing which variants are disease related. Bioinformatic approaches are well suited to the problem and can handle large numbers of cases.

Endogenous plasma membrane t-SNARE syntaxin 4 is present in rab11 positive endosomal membranes and associates with cortical actin cytoskeleton.

Membrane fusion requires the formation of a complex between a vesicle protein (v-SNARE) and the target membrane proteins (t-SNAREs). Syntaxin 4 is a t-SNARE that, according to previous overexpression studies, is predominantly localized at the plasma membrane. In the present study endogenous syntaxin 4 was found in intracellular vesicular structures in addition to regions of the plasma membrane.