Project description:This study presents the nationwide epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, using whole-genome sequencing of all culture-positive cases, which comprise roughly 40 % of all cases of gonorrhea reported in Norway from 2016 to 2017. Isolates were assigned to sequence types and Bayesian analysis clusters and variation in genes coding for antibiotic resistance was linked to phenotypic resistance data. The study also included isolates taken from the same patients from different anatomical sites at one or more time points. Comparing these isolates allows for observation of patterns of infections, i.e. multiple reinfections of genetically related clones vs. reinfections of genetically distant clones, and quantification of the genomic variation of closely related isolates from samples taken from a patient within the same day. Demographically, the patients in the study could be split into two groups; one group of patients from the capital with a high proportion of men who have sex with men (MSM), and another consisting of young adults with transmission primarily between males and females from outside the capital. Some clusters of N. gonorrhoeae were restricted to one of these two demographic groups. Pairwise comparison of multiple isolates from the same patients revealed that most were reinfected with different clones. Observations of frequent reinfections in patients is a concern and should be taken into account in the development of improved information and treatment guidelines.

| S-EPMC7276708 | biostudies-literature

Yersinia in Norway

Project description:Yersinia in Norway

| PRJEB27513 | ENA

Norway spruce

Project description:Norway spruce bacteria Raw sequence reads

| PRJNA430787 | ENA

Svf1-GFP pulldowns from Limar et al. 2023 JCB

Project description:Svf1-GFP pulldowns compared to untegged WT cells from SILAC labelled yeast cells. See Limar et al. 2023 JCB

2023-03-06 | PXD039395 | Pride

Unique organization of photosystem II supercomplexes and megacomplexes in Norway spruce.

Project description:Photosystem II (PSII) complexes are organized into large supercomplexes with variable amounts of light-harvesting proteins (Lhcb). A typical PSII supercomplex in plants is formed by four trimers of Lhcb proteins (LHCII trimers), which are bound to the PSII core dimer via monomeric antenna proteins. However, the architecture of PSII supercomplexes in Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) is different, most likely due to a lack of two Lhcb proteins, Lhcb6 and Lhcb3. Interestingly, the spruce PSII supercomplex shares similar structural features with its counterpart in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Kouřil et al.: New Phytol. 210, 808-814, 2016). Here we present a single-particle electron microscopy study of isolated PSII supercomplexes from Norway spruce that revealed binding of a variable amount of LHCII trimers to the PSII core dimer at positions that have never been observed in any other plant species so far. The largest spruce PSII supercomplex, which was found to bind 8 LHCII trimers, is even larger than the current largest known PSII supercomplex from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. We have also shown that the spruce PSII supercomplexes can form various types of PSII megacomplexes, which were also identified in intact grana membranes. Some of these large PSII supercomplexes and megacomplexes were identified also in Pinus sylvestris, another representative of Pinaceae family. The structural variability and complexity of LHCII organization in Pinaceae seems to be related to the absence of Lhcb6 and Lhcb3 in this family and may be beneficial for the optimization of light-harvesting under varying environmental conditions.

2021-09-09 | PXD020138 | Pride

PARE libraries for the identification of miRNA target genes in Norway spruce

Project description:We constructed four PARE libraries for the identification of miRNA target genes in Norway spruce.

2015-09-02 | GSE65248 | GEO