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As per Falkow's original descriptions, the three postulates are: [1] "The phenotype or property under investigation should be associated with pathogenic members of a genus or pathogenic strains of a species. Specific inactivation of the gene(s) associated with the suspected virulence trait should lead to a measurable loss in pathogenicity or ...
Falkow is known as the father of the field of molecular microbial pathogenesis. [1] He formulated molecular Koch's postulates, which have guided the study of the microbial determinants of infectious diseases since the late 1980s. [2] Falkow spent over 50 years uncovering molecular mechanisms of how bacteria cause disease and how to disarm them. [1]
In 1988, microbiologist Stanley Falkow developed a set of three Molecular Koch's postulates for identifying the microbial genes encoding virulence factors. First, the phenotype of a disease symptom must be associated with a specific genotype only found in pathogenic strains. Second, that symptom should not be present when the associated gene is ...
Microbial pathogenesis is a field of microbiology that started at least as early as 1988, with the identification of the triune Falkow's criteria, aka molecular Koch's postulates.
Stanley Falkow (1934–2018), US microbial geneticist, molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis; Harold Falls (1909–2006), US ophthalmologic geneticist, helped found first genetics clinic in US; William C. Farabee (1865–1925), US anthropologist, brachydactyly is evidence of Mendelism in humans
Their discoveries built a framework to understand the pathophysiology of pathogen-associated molecular patterns in HIV, [11] hepatitis C, [12] immune thrombocytopenia, [13] [14] and COVID-19. [15] [16] Peerschke studied both the collagen-like tail region of C1q, which binds calreticulin, and the receptor for the globular head of C1q, known as ...
K80, the Kimura 1980 model, [3] often referred to as Kimura's two parameter model (or the K2P model), distinguishes between transitions (, i.e. from purine to purine, or , i.e. from pyrimidine to pyrimidine) and transversions (from purine to pyrimidine or vice versa). In Kimura's original description of the model the α and β were used to ...
The occupancy model was the first model put forward by Clark to explain the activity of drugs at receptors and quantified the relationship between drug concentration and observed effect. It is based on mass-action kinetics and attempts to link the action of a drug to the proportion of receptors occupied by that drug at equilibrium.