STRUCTURAL INSIGHTS INTO DRUG TRANSPORT BY AN AQUAGLYCEROPORIN

Structural insights into drug transport by an aquaglyceroporin

Abstract Pentamidine and melarsoprol are primary drugs used to treat the lethal human sleeping sickness caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei.Cross-resistance to these two drugs has recently been linked to aquaglyceroporin 2 of the Pill Boxes trypanosome (TbAQP2).TbAQP2 is the first member of the aquaporin family described as capable of drug tr

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The era of cybertaxonomy: X-ray microtomography reveals cryptic diversity and concealed cuticular sculpture in Aphanerostethus Voss, 1957 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

Weevils represent one of the most speciose and economically important animal clades, but remain poorly studied across much of the Oriental Region.Here, an integrative revision of the Oriental, flightless genus Aphanerostethus Voss, 1957 (Curculionidae: Molytinae) based on X-ray microtomography, multi-gene DNA barcoding (CO1, Cytb, 16S), and traditi

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Dimitrios Gobdelas (1780-1831): unknown pages of the biography (according to documents from the archive of the Nizhyn Greek Magistrate)

Goal of research.Research of new documents from the archives of the Nizhyn Greek Bro therhood, related to the stay of the Greek educator, professor of the Greek Academy in Jassy, Dimitrios Gobdelas in Moscow in 1812.To publish the texts of the documents with a translation into modern Ukrainian, to find out the specifics of the activity of Dimitrios

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THE AUTOIMMUNE ECOLOGY.

Autoimmune diseases (ADs) represent a heterogeneous group of disorders that affect specific target organs or multiple organ systems.These conditions share common immunopathogenic mechanisms (i.e., the autoimmune tautology), which explain the clinical similarities they have among them as well as their familial clustering (i.e., coaggregation).As par

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