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Alvin WT Ng

Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
Verified email at ntu.edu.sg
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Aristolochic acids and their derivatives are widely implicated in liver cancers in Taiwan and throughout Asia

AWT Ng, SL Poon, MN Huang, JQ Lim, A Boot… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Many traditional pharmacopeias include Aristolochia and related plants, which contain
nephrotoxins and mutagens in the form of aristolochic acids and similar compounds (collectively, …

The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer

…, J Kim, NJ Haradhvala, MN Huang, AWT Ng… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Somatic mutations in cancer genomes are caused by multiple mutational processes each of
which generates a characteristic mutational signature. Using 84,729,690 somatic mutations …

In-depth characterization of the cisplatin mutational signature in human cell lines and in esophageal and liver tumors

A Boot, MN Huang, AWT Ng, SC Ho, JQ Lim… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Cisplatin reacts with DNA and thereby likely generates a characteristic pattern of somatic
mutations, called a mutational signature. Despite widespread use of cisplatin in cancer …

Experimental and pan-cancer genome analyses reveal widespread contribution of acrylamide exposure to carcinogenesis in humans

M Zhivagui, AWT Ng, M Ardin, MI Churchwell… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
Humans are frequently exposed to acrylamide, a probable human carcinogen found in
commonplace sources such as most heated starchy foods or tobacco smoke. Prior evidence has …

Characterization of colibactin-associated mutational signature in an Asian oral squamous cell carcinoma and in other mucosal tumor types

…, FT Chong, SC Ho, W Yu, DSW Tan, NG Iyer… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
Mutational signatures can reveal the history of mutagenic processes that cells were exposed
to before and during tumorigenesis. We expect that as-yet-undiscovered mutational …

[HTML][HTML] Mutational processes in cancer preferentially affect binding of particular transcription factors

M Liu, A Boot, AWT Ng, R Gordân, SG Rozen - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Protein binding microarrays provide comprehensive information about the DNA binding
specificities of transcription factors (TFs), and can be used to quantitatively predict the effects of …

Mutational signature analysis of Asian OSCCs reveals novel mutational signature with exceptional sequence context specificity

A Boot, AWT Ng, FT Chong, DSW Tan… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Study of mutational signatures in cancers can reveal the history of mutagenic processes that
cells were exposed to prior and during tumourigenesis. Although recent work has identified …

Effects of polyether–polyamide block copolymer coating on performance and fouling of reverse osmosis membranes

JS Louie, I Pinnau, I Ciobanu, KP Ishida, A Ng… - Journal of Membrane …, 2006 - Elsevier
… Although quantitative measurement of surface coverage percentages of the PEBAX layer
were unavailable for this study, it is apparent from the IR and AFM data that the 1 wt.% PEBAX …

Experimental analysis of exome-scale mutational signature of glycidamide, the reactive metabolite of acrylamide

M Zhivagui, M Ardin, AWT Ng, MI Churchwell… - bioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Acrylamide, a probable human carcinogen, is ubiquitously present in the human environment,
with sources including heated starchy foods, coffee and cigarette smoke. Humans are …

Xanthomonas campestris cell–cell communication involves a putative nucleotide receptor protein Clp and a hierarchical signalling network

YW He, AYJ Ng, M Xu, K Lin, LH Wang… - Molecular …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris co‐ordinates virulence
factor production and biofilm dispersal through a diffusible signal factor (DSF)‐mediated cell–…