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The antifungal activity and cytotoxicity of silver containing denture base material
Kurt, Ayşegül; Erköse Genç, Gonca; Uzun, Meltem; Emrence, Zeliha; Üstek, Duran; Işık Özkol, Gülbahar (Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd., 2017)Objective: Denture base materials are susceptible to fungal adhesion, which is an important etiological issue in the pathogenesis of denture stomatitis. The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the antifungal ... -
Genomic analysis reveals the biotechnological and industrial potential of levan producing halophilic extremophile, Halomonas smyrnensis AAD6T
Diken, Elif; Özer, Tuğba; Arıkan, Muzaffer; Emrence, Zeliha; Toksoy Öner, Ebru; Üstek, Duran; Arğa, Kazım Yalçın (Springer International Publishing, 2015)Halomonas smyrnensis AAD6T is a gram negative, aerobic, and moderately halophilic bacterium, and is known to produce high levels of levan with many potential uses in foods, feeds, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and chemical ... -
A homozygous nonsense thyroid peroxidase mutation (R540X) consistently causes congenital hypothyroidism in two siblings born to a consanguineous family
Cangül, Hakan; Doğan, Murat; Üstek, Duran (Galenos Publishing, 2015)Objective: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is the most common neonatal endocrine disorder, and mutations in the thyroid peroxidase (TPO) gene have been reported to cause the disease. Our aim in this study was to determine ... -
The immunostimulatory effect of lactic acid bacteria in a rat model
Karameşe, Murat; Aydın, Hakan; Şengül, Emin; Gelen, Volkan; Sevim, Çiğdem; Üstek, Duran; Karakuş, Emre (Shiraz Inst Cancer Res, 2016)Background: Probiotics are "live", beneficial microbes that provide important health benefits in their hosts. There is significant interest in the modulation and regulation of the immune function by probiotics. Objective: ... -
Improving genome assemblies using multi-platform sequence data
Kavak, Pınar; Ergüner, Bekir; Üstek, Duran; Yüksel, Bayram; Sağıroglu, Mahmut Şamil; Güngör, Tunga; Alkan, Can (Springer Verlag, 2016)Accurate de novo assembly using short reads generated by next generation sequencing technologies is still an open problem. Although there are several assembly algorithms developed for data generated with different sequencing ... -
Lack of association between increased mitochondrial DNA(4977) deletion and ATP levels of sputum cells from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients versus healthy smokers
Karimova, Ayla; Müşteri Oltulu, Yasemin; Azaklı, Hülya; Kara, Murat; Üstek, Duran; Tutluoğlu, Bülent; Onaran, İlhan (Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2017)In this study we looked at smokers with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients in order to evaluate the incidence of 4977 base pair (bp) mtDNA (mtDNA(4977)) deletion and mtDNA copy number in ... -
Microfluidics and nanoparticles based amperometric biosensor for the detection of cyanobacteria (Planktothrix agardhii NIVA-CYA 116) DNA
Ölçer, Zehra; Esen, Elif; Ersoy, Aylin; Budak, Sinan; Sever Kaya, Dilek; Yağmur Gök, Mehmet; Barut, Serkan; Üstek, Duran; Uludaǧ, Yıldız (Elsevier, 2015)Some of the cyanobacteria produce protease inhibitor oligopeptides such as cyanopeptolins and cause drinking water contamination; hence, their detection has great importance to monitor the well-being of water sources that ... -
Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7
Sahakyan, Hovhannes; Kashani, Baharak Hooshiar; Tamang, Rakesh; Kushniarevich, Alena; Francis, Amirtharaj; Costa, Marta D.; Pathak, Ajai Kumar; Khachatryan, Zaruhi; Sharma, Indu; Van Oven, Mannis; Parik, Juri; Hovhannisyan, Hrant; Metspalu, Ene; Pennarun, Erwan; Karmin, Monika; Tamm, Erika; Tambets, Kristiina; Bahmanimehr, Ardeshir; Reisberg, Tuuli; Reidla, Maere; Achilli, Alessandro; Olivieri, Anna; Gandini, Francesca; Perego, Ugo A.; Al-Zahery, Nadia; Houshmand, Massoud; Sanati, Mohammad Hossein; Soares, Pedro; Rai, Ekta; Sarac, Jelena; Saric, Tena; Sharma, Varun; Pereira, Luisa; Fernandes, Veronica; Cerny, Viktor; Farjadian, Shirin; Singh, Deepankar Pratap; Azaklı, Hülya; Üstek, Duran; Ekomasova (Trofimova), Natalia; Kutuev, Ildus; Litvinov, Sergei; Bermisheva, Marina; Khusnutdinova, Elza K.; Singh, Niraj Rai Manvendra; Singh, Vijay Kumar; Reddy, Alla G.; Tolk, Helle-Viivi; Cvjetan, Svjetlana; Lauc, Lovorka Barac; Rudan, Pavao; Michalodimitrakis, Emmanuel N.; Anagnou, Nicholas P.; Pappa, Kalliopi I.; Golubenko, Maria V.; Orekhov, Vladimir; Borinskaya, Svetlana A.; Kaldma, Katrin; Schauer, Monica A.; Simionescu, Maya; Gusar, Vladislava; Grechanina, Elena; Govindaraj, Periyasamy; Voevoda, Mikhail; Damba, Larissa; Sharma, Swarkar; Singh, Lalji; Semino, Ornella; Behar, Doron M.; Yepiskoposyan, Levon; Richards, Martin B.; Metspalu, Mait; Kivisild, Toomas; Thangaraj, Kumarasamy; Endicott, Phillip; Chaubey, Gyaneshwer; Torroni, Antonio; Villems, Richard (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U is among the initial maternal founders in Southwest Asia and Europe and one that best indicates matrilineal genetic continuity between late Pleistocene huntergatherer groups and present-day ... -
Water as source of Francisella tularensis infection in humans, Turkey
Kılıç, Selçuk Sirri; Birdsell, Dawn; Karagöz, Alper; Çelebi, Bekir; Bakkaloǧlu, Zekiye; Arıkan, Muzaffer; Sahl, Jason; Mitchell, Cedar; Rivera, Andrew; Maltinsky, Sara; Keim, Paul; Üstek, Duran; Durmaz, Rıza; Wagner, David (Centers Disease Control, 2015)Francisella tularensis DNA extractions and isolates from the environment and humans were genetically characterized to elucidate environmental sources that cause human tularemia in Turkey. Extensive genetic diversity ...