Youming Zhang

Novel expression hosts for complex secondary metabolite megasynthetases: Production of myxochromide in the thermopilic isolate Corallococcus macrosporusGT-2 (2009)

Perlova, Olena, Gerth, Klaus, Kuhlmann, Silvia, Zhang, Youming, Müller, Rolf

Abstract Although many secondary metabolites with diverse biological activities have been isolated from myxobacteria, most strains of these biotechnologically important gliding prokaryotes remain...

BAC TransgeneOmics: a high-throughput method for exploration of protein function in mammals (2008)

Poser, Ina, Sarov, Mihail, Hutchins, James R A, Heriche, Jean-Karim, Toyoda, Yusuke, Pozniakovsky, Andrei, ...

The interpretation of genome sequences requires reliable and standardized methods to assess protein function at high throughput. Here we describe a fast and reliable pipeline to study protein...

Efficient transfer of two large secondary metabolite pathway gene clusters into heterologous hosts by transposition (2008)

Fu, Jun, Wenzel, Silke C., Perlova, Olena, Wang, Junping, Gross, Frank, Tang, Zhiru, ...

Horizontal gene transfer by transposition has been widely used for transgenesis in prokaryotes. However, conjugation has been preferred for transfer of large transgenes, despite greater restrictions...

A recombineering pipeline for functional genomics applied to Caenorhabditis elegans (2006)

Sarov, Mihail, Schneider, Susan, Pozniakovski, Andrei, Roguev, Assen, Ernst, Susanne, Zhang, Youming, ...

We present a new concept in DNA engineering based on a pipeline of serial recombineering steps in liquid culture. This approach is fast, straightforward and facilitates simultaneous processing of...

NOD1 variation, immunoglobulin E and asthma (2005)

Hysi, Pirro, Kabesch, Michael, Moffatt, Miriam F., Schedel, Michaela, Carr, David, Zhang, Youming, ...

Asthma is a familial inflammatory disease of the airways of the lung. Microbial exposures in childhood protect against asthma through unknown mechanisms. The innate immune system is able to identify...

NOD1 variation, Immunoglobulin E, and asthma (2005)

Hysi, Pirro, Kabesch, Michael, Moffatt, Miriam F., Schedel, Michaela, Carr, David, Zhang, Youming, ...

Asthma is a familial inflammatory disease of the airways of the lung. Microbial exposures in childhood protect against asthma through unknown mechanisms. The innate immune system is able to identify...

Phage annealing proteins promote oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis in Escherichia coliand mouse ES cells (2003)

Zhang, Youming, Muyrers, Joep PP, Rientjes, Jeanette, Stewart, A Francis

Abstract Background The phage protein pairs, RecE/RecT from Rac or Redα/Redβ from λ, initiate efficient double strand break repair (DSBR) in Escherichia coli that has proven very useful for DNA...

A genome-wide screen for asthma-associated quantitative trait loci in a mouse model of allergic asthma (1999)

Zhang, Youming, Lefort, Jean, Kearsey, Virginia, Lapa E Silva, José Roberto, Vargaftig, B. Boris

Asthma is the most common illness of childhood, affecting one child in seven in the UK. Asthma has a genetic basis, but genetic studies of asthma in humans are confounded by uncontrolled...

RecE/RecT and Redα/Redβ initiate double-stranded break repair by specifically interacting with their respective partners

Muyrers, Joep P.P., Zhang, Youming, Buchholz, Fraenk, Stewart, A. Francis

The initial steps of double-stranded break (DSB) repair by homologous recombination mediated by the 5′–3′ exonuclease/annealing protein pairs, RecE/RecT and Redα/Redβ, were analyzed....

Point mutation of bacterial artificial chromosomes by ET recombination

Muyrers, Joep P.P., Zhang, Youming, Benes, Vladimir, Testa, Giuseppe, Ansorge, Wilhelm, Stewart, A. Francis

Bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) offer many advantages for functional studies of large eukaryotic genes. To utilize the potential applications of BACs optimally, new approaches that allow...

Extent and Distribution of Linkage Disequilibrium in Three Genomic Regions

Abecasis, Gonçalo R., Noguchi, Emiko, Heinzmann, Andrea, Traherne, James A., Bhattacharyya, Sumit, Leaves, Nicholas I., ...

The positional cloning of genes underlying common complex diseases relies on the identification of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between genetic markers and disease. We have examined 127 polymorphisms...

RecE/RecT and Redα/Redβ initiate double-stranded break repair by specifically interacting with their respective partners

Muyrers, Joep P.P., Zhang, Youming, Buchholz, Fraenk, Stewart, A. Francis

The initial steps of double-stranded break (DSB) repair by homologous recombination mediated by the 5′–3′ exonuclease/annealing protein pairs, RecE/RecT and Redα/Redβ, were analyzed....

Point mutation of bacterial artificial chromosomes by ET recombination

Muyrers, Joep P.P., Zhang, Youming, Benes, Vladimir, Testa, Giuseppe, Ansorge, Wilhelm, Stewart, A. Francis

Bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) offer many advantages for functional studies of large eukaryotic genes. To utilize the potential applications of BACs optimally, new approaches that allow...

Extent and Distribution of Linkage Disequilibrium in Three Genomic Regions

Abecasis, Gonçalo R., Noguchi, Emiko, Heinzmann, Andrea, Traherne, James A., Bhattacharyya, Sumit, Leaves, Nicholas I., ...

The positional cloning of genes underlying common complex diseases relies on the identification of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between genetic markers and disease. We have examined 127 polymorphisms...

Reconstitution of the Myxothiazol Biosynthetic Gene Cluster by Red/ET Recombination and Heterologous Expression in Myxococcus xanthus▿

Perlova, Olena, Fu, Jun, Kuhlmann, Silvia, Krug, Daniel, Stewart, A. Francis, Zhang, Youming, ...

Although many secondary metabolites exhibiting important pharmaceutical and agrochemical activities have been isolated from myxobacteria, most of these microorganisms remain difficult to handle...

Efficient transfer of two large secondary metabolite pathway gene clusters into heterologous hosts by transposition

Fu, Jun, Wenzel, Silke C., Perlova, Olena, Wang, Junping, Gross, Frank, Tang, Zhiru, ...

Horizontal gene transfer by transposition has been widely used for transgenesis in prokaryotes. However, conjugation has been preferred for transfer of large transgenes, despite greater restrictions...

Novel expression hosts for complex secondary metabolite megasynthetases: Production of myxochromide in the thermopilic isolate Corallococcus macrosporus GT-2

Perlova, Olena, Gerth, Klaus, Kuhlmann, Silvia, Zhang, Youming, Müller, Rolf

Although many secondary metabolites with diverse biological activities have been isolated from myxobacteria, most strains of these biotechnologically important gliding prokaryotes remain difficult to...