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David Block

Professor, University of California, Davis
Verified email at ucdavis.edu
Cited by 5672

Oleaginous yeasts for biodiesel: current and future trends in biology and production

IR Sitepu, LA Garay, R Sestric, D Levin, DE Block… - Biotechnology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Production of biodiesel from edible plant oils is quickly expanding worldwide to fill a need for
renewable, environmentally-friendly liquid transportation fuels. Due to concerns over use of …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous consumption of pentose and hexose sugars: an optimal microbial phenotype for efficient fermentation of lignocellulosic biomass

JH Kim, DE Block, DA Mills - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2010 - Springer
Lignocellulosic biomass is an attractive carbon source for bio-based fuel and chemical
production; however, its compositional heterogeneity hinders its commercial use. Since most …

Consumption of human milk oligosaccharides by gut-related microbes

…, M Barboza, JW Froehlich, DE Block… - Journal of agricultural …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Human milk contains large amounts of complex oligosaccharides that putatively modulate
the intestinal microbiota of breast-fed infants by acting as decoy binding sites for pathogens …

[HTML][HTML] Downshifting yeast dominance: Cell physiology and phospholipid composition are altered with establishment of the [GAR+] prion in Saccharomyces …

…, CM Henderson, P Luong, DE Block… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Establishment of the [GAR + ] prion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reduces both transcriptional
expression of the HXT3 hexose transporter gene and fermentation capacity in high sugar …

Evaluation of farnesyl: protein transferase and geranylgeranyl: protein transferase inhibitor combinations in preclinical models

…, HG Bhimnathwala, MJ Brucker, CA Buser, JP Davide… - Cancer research, 2001 - AACR
… pancreatic tumor cells, which harbor oncogenic Ki-ras, and in other tumor lines having either
wild-type or oncogenic Ki-ras, treatment with an FTI/GGTI combination or with a DPI blocks

Aging-induced type I interferon response at the choroid plexus negatively affects brain function

K Baruch, A Deczkowska, E David, JM Castellano… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Aging-associated cognitive decline is affected by factors produced inside and outside the
brain. By using multiorgan genome-wide analysis of aged mice, we found that the choroid …

[HTML][HTML] Adolescent binge alcohol enhances early Alzheimer's disease pathology in adulthood through proinflammatory neuroimmune activation

A Barnett, E David, A Rohlman, VD Nikolova… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… Membranes were washed in TBS and blocked for 1 h at room temperature (Li-Cor Blocking
Solution; 92760001) then were incubated overnight at 4C with the primary antibodies listed …

Microglia development follows a stepwise program to regulate brain homeostasis

…, A Spinrad, S Sarrazin, H Ben-Yehuda, E David… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Microglia, as the resident myeloid cells of the central nervous system, play
an important role in life-long brain maintenance and in pathology. Microglia are derived from …

Inhibition of farnesyltransferase induces regression of mammary and salivary carcinomas in ras transgenic mice

…, CA Omer, MW Conner, NJ Anthony, JP Davide… - Nature medicine, 1995 - nature.com
… The success of L-744,832 at inducing tumour regressions in the MMTV-v-Ha-ras mice and
the ability of our previous FPTase inhibitors to block the growth of PSN-1 cells suggests that …

Blunt splenic injury in adults: multi-institutional study of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

…, R Townsend, G Tinkoff, EFJ Block… - Journal of Trauma …, 2000 - journals.lww.com
Background Nonoperative management of blunt injury to the spleen in adults has been
applied with increasing frequency. However, the criteria for nonoperative management are …