Robert A. Davey

Effective suppression of Dengue fever virus in mosquito cell cultures using retroviral transduction of hammerhead ribozymes targeting the viral genome (2009)

Nawtaisong, Pruksa, Keith, James, Fraser, Tresa, Balaraman, Velmurugan, Kolokoltsov, Andrey, Davey, Robert A, ...

Abstract Outbreaks of Dengue impose a heavy economic burden on developing countries in terms of vector control and human morbidity. Effective vaccines against all four serotypes of Dengue are in...

Unstructured Mesh Applications at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre: Libraries, Applications and Interactive Learning (preprint) (2007)

Robert Baxter, Robert A. Davey, David Henty

We examine work carried out at Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre relevant to parallel unstructured mesh applications of the type commonly encountered in Finite Element and Finite Volume...

Use of recombinant lentivirus pseudotyped with vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein G for efficient generation of human anti-cancer chimeric T cells by transduction of human peripheral blood lymphocytes in vitro (2006)

Simmons, Anthony, Whitehead, Robert P, Kolokoltsov, Andrey A, Davey, Robert A

Abstract Background Genetic redirection of lymphocytes that have been genetically engineered to recognize antigens other than those originally programmed in their germlines is a potentially powerful...

Unstructured Mesh Libraries for the AP1000 (1996)

Dr Robert, M. Baxter, Robert A. Davey

We present the results from the final year of a three-year collaborative project between Fujitsu Laboratories and Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. We have developed and extended a suite of...

Modular organization of the Friend murine leukemia virus envelope protein underlies the mechanism of infection

Barnett, Anna L., Davey, Robert A., Cunningham, James M.

Retrovirus infection is initiated by receptor-dependent fusion of the envelope to the cell membrane. The modular organization of the envelope protein of C type retroviruses has been exploited to...

Identification of a Receptor-Binding Pocket on the Envelope Protein of Friend Murine Leukemia Virus

Davey, Robert A., Zuo, Yi, Cunningham, James M.

Based on previous structural and functional studies, a potential receptor-binding site composed of residues that form a pocket at one end of the two long antiparallel helices in the receptor-binding...

Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Retrovirus Entry by Using a Novel Luciferase-Based Content-Mixing Assay

Kolokoltsov, Andrey A., Davey, Robert A.

We describe a novel assay that permits measurement of entry of murine leukemia virus and pseudotypes with greater sensitivity and more rapidly than previously possible. To achieve this, we...

Efficient Functional Pseudotyping of Oncoretroviral and Lentiviral Vectors by Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Envelope Proteins

Kolokoltsov, Andrey A., Weaver, Scott C., Davey, Robert A.

Murine oncoretroviruses and lentiviruses pseudotyped with envelope proteins of alphaviruses have shown great potential in providing broad-host-range, stable vectors for gene therapy. Unlike vesicular...

Modular organization of the Friend murine leukemia virus envelope protein underlies the mechanism of infection

Barnett, Anna L., Davey, Robert A., Cunningham, James M.

Retrovirus infection is initiated by receptor-dependent fusion of the envelope to the cell membrane. The modular organization of the envelope protein of C type retroviruses has been exploited to...

Identification of a Receptor-Binding Pocket on the Envelope Protein of Friend Murine Leukemia Virus

Davey, Robert A., Zuo, Yi, Cunningham, James M.

Based on previous structural and functional studies, a potential receptor-binding site composed of residues that form a pocket at one end of the two long antiparallel helices in the receptor-binding...

Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Retrovirus Entry by Using a Novel Luciferase-Based Content-Mixing Assay

Kolokoltsov, Andrey A., Davey, Robert A.

We describe a novel assay that permits measurement of entry of murine leukemia virus and pseudotypes with greater sensitivity and more rapidly than previously possible. To achieve this, we...

Efficient Functional Pseudotyping of Oncoretroviral and Lentiviral Vectors by Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Envelope Proteins

Kolokoltsov, Andrey A., Weaver, Scott C., Davey, Robert A.

Murine oncoretroviruses and lentiviruses pseudotyped with envelope proteins of alphaviruses have shown great potential in providing broad-host-range, stable vectors for gene therapy. Unlike vesicular...

Respiratory Syncytial Virus F Envelope Protein Associates with Lipid Rafts without a Requirement for Other Virus Proteins▿

Fleming, Elisa H., Kolokoltsov, Andrey A., Davey, Robert A., Nichols, Joan E., Roberts, Norbert J.

Like many enveloped viruses, human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) assembles at and buds from lipid rafts. Translocation of the envelope proteins to these membrane subdomains is essential for...

Small Interfering RNA Profiling Reveals Key Role of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis and Early Endosome Formation for Infection by Respiratory Syncytial Virus▿

Kolokoltsov, Andrey A., Deniger, Drew, Fleming, Elisa H., Roberts, Norbert J., Karpilow, Jon M., Davey, Robert A.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of respiratory tract infections in infants and the elderly. Like many other pH-independent enveloped viruses, RSV is thought to enter at the cell...

Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase-Akt Pathway Controls Cellular Entry of Ebola Virus

Saeed, Mohammad F., Kolokoltsov, Andrey A., Freiberg, Alexander N., Holbrook, Michael R., Davey, Robert A.

The phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K) pathway regulates diverse cellular activities related to cell growth, migration, survival, and vesicular trafficking. It is known that Ebola virus requires...

Effective suppression of Dengue fever virus in mosquito cell cultures using retroviral transduction of hammerhead ribozymes targeting the viral genome

Nawtaisong, Pruksa, Keith, James, Fraser, Tresa, Balaraman, Velmurugan, Kolokoltsov, Andrey, Davey, Robert A, ...

Outbreaks of Dengue impose a heavy economic burden on developing countries in terms of vector control and human morbidity. Effective vaccines against all four serotypes of Dengue are in development,...