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36890606 | PMC9996866 | pmc | 3,977 | {
"abstract": "Background Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are key soil organisms and their extensive hyphae create a unique hyphosphere associated with microbes actively involved in N cycling. However, the underlying mechanisms how AMF and hyphae-associated microbes may cooperate to influence N 2 O emissions from ... | 5,670 |
35520230 | PMC9062995 | pmc | 3,978 | {
"abstract": "Due to the characteristics of renewable and carbon-neutral, lignocellulose is considered to be one of the most potential, feasible, and ample resources for biofuel production on the Earth. However, the low energy conversion capacity of microorganisms is the primary bottleneck for utilizing lignocellulo... | 4,300 |
24724055 | PMC3971182 | pmc | 3,980 | {
"abstract": "Biofilms are characterized by a dense multicellular community of microorganisms that can be formed by the attachment of bacteria to an inert surface and to each other. The development of biofilm involves the initial attachment of planktonic bacteria to a surface, followed by replication, cell-to-cell a... | 1,416 |
28018309 | PMC5156726 | pmc | 3,981 | {
"abstract": "We used microsensors to study the regulation of anoxygenic and oxygenic photosynthesis (AP and OP, respectively) by light and sulfide in a cyanobacterium dominating microbial mats from cold sulfidic springs. Both photosynthetic modes were performed simultaneously over all H 2 S concentrations (1–2200 μ... | 4,956 |
34611201 | PMC8492804 | pmc | 3,983 | {
"abstract": "Many pheromone sensing bacteria produce and detect more than one chemically distinct signal, or autoinducer. The pathways that detect these signals are typically noisy and interlocked through crosstalk and feedback. As a result, the sensing response of individual cells is described by statistical distr... | 5,389 |
36692900 | PMC9999432 | pmc | 3,984 | {
"abstract": "Polymeric materials produced from fossil fuels have been\nintimately\nlinked to the development of industrial activities in the 20th century\nand, consequently, to the transformation of our way of living. While\nthis has brought many benefits, the fabrication and disposal of these\nmaterials is bringin... | 4,101 |
37938648 | PMC9723793 | pmc | 3,985 | {
"abstract": "The sea anemone, Exaiptasia diaphana , is a model of coral-dinoflagellate (Symbiodiniaceae) symbiosis. However, little is known of its potential to form symbiosis with Cladocopium —a key Indo-Pacific algal symbiont of scleractinian corals, nor the host nutritional consequences of such an association.... | 6,177 |
31020759 | PMC6852232 | pmc | 3,988 | {
"abstract": "Summary Iron is essential for most living organisms. In addition, its biogeochemical cycling influences important processes in the geosphere (e.g., the mobilization or immobilization of trace elements and contaminants). The reduction of Fe(III) to Fe(II) can be catalysed microbially, particularly by me... | 5,743 |
29403089 | null | s2 | 3,989 | {
"abstract": "Star-shaped poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) chain termini were functionalized with alendronate to create transient networks with reversible crosslinks upon addition of calcium ions. The gelation ability of alendronate-functionalized PEG was greatly dependent on the number of arms and arm molecular weight. ... | 281 |
29255037 | PMC5776829 | pmc | 3,990 | {
"abstract": "Significance We demonstrate a unique growth mode to form complex 3D shapes in hydrogels by invoking the bottom-up approach analogous to cell enlargement and proliferation found in living animal tissues and plants. For this purpose, we control the oxygen concentration to modulate polymerization of monom... | 655 |
30128245 | PMC6097140 | pmc | 3,992 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Living materials are an emergent material class, infused with the productive, adaptive, and regenerative properties of living organisms. Property regulation in living materials requires encoding responsive units in the living components to allow external manipulation of their function. Here, a... | 265 |
37095261 | PMC10125981 | pmc | 3,993 | {
"abstract": "Spider silk fibres have unique mechanical properties due to their hierarchical structure and the nanoscale organization of their proteins. Novel imaging techniques reveal new insights into the macro- and nanoscopic structure of Major (MAS) and Minor (MiS) Ampullate silk fibres from pristine samples of ... | 2,345 |
35214825 | PMC8880547 | pmc | 3,994 | {
"abstract": "Lignocellulosic biomass from the secondary cell walls of plants has a veritable potential to provide some of the most appropriate raw materials for producing second-generation biofuels. Therefore, we must first understand how plants synthesize these complex secondary cell walls that consist of cellulos... | 9,404 |
23176474 | null | s2 | 3,996 | {
"abstract": "The chemical and electrochemical gradients in biofilms play a critical role in electron-transfer processes between cells and a solid electron acceptor. Most of the time, electron-transfer processes have been investigated in the bulk phase, for a biofilm electrode or for an isolated component of a biofi... | 203 |
21643511 | null | s2 | 3,997 | {
"abstract": "The general topic of this review is protein-based underwater adhesives produced by aquatic organisms. The focus is on mechanisms of interfacial adhesion to native surfaces and controlled underwater solidification of natural water-borne adhesives. Four genera that exemplify the broad range of function, ... | 501 |
21643511 | null | s2 | 3,998 | {
"abstract": "The general topic of this review is protein-based underwater adhesives produced by aquatic organisms. The focus is on mechanisms of interfacial adhesion to native surfaces and controlled underwater solidification of natural water-borne adhesives. Four genera that exemplify the broad range of function, ... | 501 |
38572077 | PMC10986841 | pmc | 3,999 | {
"abstract": "Establishing microbial cell factories has become a sustainable and increasingly promising approach for the synthesis of valuable chemicals. However, introducing heterologous pathways into these cell factories can disrupt the endogenous cellular metabolism, leading to suboptimal production performance. ... | 2,171 |
34646398 | PMC8491711 | pmc | 4,000 | {
"abstract": "The self-healing behavior of two supramolecular polymers based on π–π-interactions featuring different polymer backbones is presented. For this purpose, these polymers were synthesized utilizing a polycondensation of a perylene tetracarboxylic dianhydride with polyether-based diamines and the resulting... | 4,683 |
33146374 | PMC7875005 | pmc | 4,001 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Photosynthetic dinoflagellates of the Family Symbiodiniaceae live symbiotically with many organisms that inhabit coral reefs and are currently classified into fifteen groups, including seven genera. Draft genomes from four genera, Symbiodinium , Breviolum , Fugacium , and Cladocopium , whi... | 3,378 |
30855227 | PMC6411370 | pmc | 4,002 | {
"abstract": "The physical interactions of growing bacterial cells with each other and with their surroundings significantly affect the structure and dynamics of biofilms. Here a 3D agent-based model is formulated to describe the establishment of simple bacterial colonies expanding by the physical force of their gro... | 5,117 |
31579631 | PMC6768060 | pmc | 4,003 | {
"abstract": "Background Heliopora coerulea , the blue coral, is a reef building octocoral that is reported to have a higher optimum temperature for growth compared to most scleractinian corals. This octocoral has been observed to grow over both live and dead scleractinians and to dominate certain reefs in the Indo-... | 6,109 |
33290393 | PMC7723297 | pmc | 4,005 | {
"abstract": "Gram-negative bacteria, as well as some Gram-positive bacteria, possess hair-like appendages known as fimbriae, which play an important role in adhesion of the bacteria to surfaces or to other bacteria. Unlike the sex pili or flagellum, the fimbriae are quite numerous, with of order 1000 fimbriae appen... | 8,248 |
40259044 | PMC12011931 | pmc | 4,007 | {
"abstract": "This review aims to examine microbial mechanisms for phosphorus (P) solubilization, assess the impacts of P mining and scarcity, and advocate for sustainable recycling strategies to enhance agricultural and environmental resilience. Phosphorus is an indispensable macronutrient for plant growth and agri... | 2,945 |
36093733 | PMC9827988 | pmc | 4,008 | {
"abstract": "Summary \n While pathogenic and mutualistic microbes are ubiquitous across ecosystems and often co‐occur within hosts, how they interact to determine patterns of disease in genetically diverse wild populations is unknown. To test whether microbial mutualists provide protection against pathogens, and wh... | 5,847 |
23861757 | PMC3702539 | pmc | 4,009 | {
"abstract": "Xylonate is a valuable chemical for versatile applications. Although the chemical synthesis route and microbial conversion pathway were established decades ago, no commercial production of xylonate has been obtained so far. In this study, the industrially important microorganism Escherichia coli was ... | 4,383 |
17625513 | PMC1948103 | pmc | 4,010 | {
"abstract": "Biological systems display a functional diversity, density and efficiency that make them a paradigm for synthetic systems. In natural systems, the cell is the elemental unit and efforts to emulate cells, their components, and organization have relied primarily on the use of bioorganic materials. Impres... | 2,459 |
30050510 | PMC6050453 | pmc | 4,011 | {
"abstract": "Plant rhizospheres encompass a dynamic zone of interactions between microorganisms and their respective plant hosts. For decades, researchers have worked to understand how these complex interactions influence different aspects of plant growth, development, and evolution. Studies of plant-microbial inte... | 2,091 |
34552159 | PMC8458526 | pmc | 4,012 | {
"abstract": "Thermal-stress events have changed the structure, biodiversity, and functioning of coral reefs. But how these disturbances affect the dynamics of individual coral colonies remains unclear. By tracking the fate of 1069 individual Acropora and massive Porites coral colonies for up to 5 years, spannin... | 3,533 |
33979170 | null | s2 | 4,013 | {
"abstract": "Microbial life on Earth exists within wide ranges of temperature, pressure, pH, salinity, radiation, and water activity. Extreme thermoacidophiles, in particular, are microbes found in hot, acidic biotopes laden with heavy metals and reduced inorganic sulfur species. As chemolithoautotrophs, they thriv... | 109 |
36574450 | PMC9829172 | pmc | 4,014 | {
"abstract": "Recent observations have revealed that closely related strains of the same microbial species can stably coexist in natural and laboratory settings subject to boom and bust dynamics and serial dilutions, respectively. However, the possible mechanisms enabling the coexistence of only a handful of strains... | 2,809 |
39506351 | PMC11540873 | pmc | 4,016 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Microorganisms in large‐scale bioreactors are exposed to heterogeneous environmental conditions due to physical mixing constraints. Nutritional gradients can lead to transient expression of energetically wasteful stress responses and as a result, can reduce the titres, rates and yields of a bi... | 6,434 |
29234312 | PMC5712364 | pmc | 4,017 | {
"abstract": "Microbial communities that inhabit environments such as soil can contain thousands of distinct taxa, yet little is known about how this diversity is maintained in response to environmental perturbations such as changes in the availability of carbon. By utilizing aerobic substrate arrays to examine the ... | 5,704 |
31890017 | PMC6913021 | pmc | 4,018 | {
"abstract": "Background Anaerobic digestion of easily degradable biowaste can lead to the accumulation of volatile fatty acids, which will cause environmental stress to the sensitive methanogens consequently. The metabolic characteristics of methanogens under acetate stress can affect the overall performance of mix... | 6,151 |
30203189 | PMC6131686 | pmc | 4,019 | {
"abstract": "A facial electrospinning method of in situ precise fabricating magnetic fibrous membrane composed of polyurethane (PU) nanofibers decorated with superparamagnetic γ-Fe 2 O 3 nanoparticles with simultaneous heat generation in response to alternating magnetic field (AMF) is reported. In this method, a c... | 5,747 |
33328348 | PMC7771232 | pmc | 4,020 | {
"abstract": "This first molecular biological study of archaeal immersed liquid biofilms advances our basic biological understanding of the model archaeon Haloferax volcanii . Data gleaned from this study also provide an invaluable foundation for future studies to uncover components required for immersed liquid bio... | 4,831 |
39639996 | PMC7616896 | pmc | 4,022 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial communication via quorum sensing (QS) molecules, as well as toxin-antitoxin (TA) gene modules located on bacterial chromosomes are well-studied mechanisms. Escherichia coli mazEF is a stress-induced TA system mediating cell death requiring a QS extracellular death factor (EDF), the pentapep... | 333 |
39639996 | PMC7616896 | pmc | 4,022 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial communication via quorum sensing (QS) molecules, as well as toxin-antitoxin (TA) gene modules located on bacterial chromosomes are well-studied mechanisms. Escherichia coli mazEF is a stress-induced TA system mediating cell death requiring a QS extracellular death factor (EDF), the pentapep... | 333 |
39639996 | PMC7616896 | pmc | 4,023 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial communication via quorum sensing (QS) molecules, as well as toxin-antitoxin (TA) gene modules located on bacterial chromosomes are well-studied mechanisms. Escherichia coli mazEF is a stress-induced TA system mediating cell death requiring a QS extracellular death factor (EDF), the pentapep... | 333 |
39639996 | PMC7616896 | pmc | 4,023 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial communication via quorum sensing (QS) molecules, as well as toxin-antitoxin (TA) gene modules located on bacterial chromosomes are well-studied mechanisms. Escherichia coli mazEF is a stress-induced TA system mediating cell death requiring a QS extracellular death factor (EDF), the pentapep... | 333 |
35174616 | PMC9544924 | pmc | 4,024 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Network theory offers innovative tools to explore the complex ecological mechanisms regulating species associations and interactions. Although interest in ecological networks has grown steadily during the last two decades, the application of network approaches has been unequally distributed ac... | 1,861 |
37973866 | PMC10686836 | pmc | 4,025 | {
"abstract": "Development of microbial communities is a complex multiscale phenomenon with wide-ranging biomedical and ecological implications. How biological and physical processes determine emergent spatial structures in microbial communities remains poorly understood due to a lack of simultaneous measurements of ... | 1,382 |
24622509 | null | s2 | 4,026 | {
"abstract": "Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a monoflagellated bacterium that can use its single polar flagellum to swim through liquids and move collectively over semisolid surfaces, a behavior called swarming. Previous studies have shown that experimental evolution in swarming colonies leads to the selection of hypersw... | 423 |
33510173 | PMC7844223 | pmc | 4,027 | {
"abstract": "Biological organic-inorganic materials remain a popular source of inspiration for bioinspired materials design and engineering. Inspired by the self-assembling metal-reinforced mussel holdfast threads, we tested if metal-coordinate polymer networks can be utilized as simple composite scaffolds for dire... | 1,366 |
40221492 | PMC11993693 | pmc | 4,028 | {
"abstract": "In this study, a novel tunable dopingless band-to-band tunneling mechanism based Leaky Integrate and Fire (LIF) neuron is proposed with a notable improvement in integration density and energy consumption. The forward transfer characteristics of Tunnel FET with sharp sub-threshold swing have been utilis... | 3,150 |
30014573 | PMC6116752 | pmc | 4,029 | {
"abstract": "Summary Microbial consortia are capable of surviving diverse conditions through the formation of synergistic population‐level structures, such as stromatolites, microbial mats and biofilms. Biotechnological applications are poised to capitalize on these unique interactions. However, current artificial ... | 794 |
31105372 | null | s2 | 4,030 | {
"abstract": "To help mitigate future problems in the supply of platinum group metals (PGM) due to their scarcity and high demand, new recovery processes must be developed. Microbial processes are a great alternative for the recovery of PGM from waste since they are clean and environmentally friendly techniques. Thi... | 223 |
21234345 | PMC3017947 | pmc | 4,033 | {
"abstract": "Methanohalophilus mahii is the type species of the genus\n Methanohalophilus , which currently comprises three distinct species with validly published names.\n Mhp. mahii represents moderately halophilic methanogenic archaea with a strictly methylotrophic metabolism.\nThe type strain SLP T was isola... | 11,504 |
29062947 | PMC5625725 | pmc | 4,036 | {
"abstract": "Natural products (NPs) continue to play a pivotal role in drug discovery programs. The rapid development of synthetic biology has conferred the strategies of NPs production. Synthetic biology is a new engineering discipline that aims to produce desirable products by rationally programming the biologica... | 736 |
36311477 | PMC9597109 | pmc | 4,041 | {
"abstract": "Hemicellulose is the second most abundant carbohydrate in lignocellulosic biomass and has extensive applications. In conventional biomass refinery, hemicellulose is easily converted to unwanted by-products in pretreatment and therefore can't be fully utilized. The present study aims to summarize the mo... | 1,360 |
34638728 | PMC8508622 | pmc | 4,042 | {
"abstract": "Soil health and fertility issues are constantly addressed in the agricultural industry. Through the continuous and prolonged use of chemical heavy agricultural systems, most agricultural lands have been impacted, resulting in plateaued or reduced productivity. As such, to invigorate the agricultural in... | 1,724 |
40143247 | PMC11945551 | pmc | 4,043 | {
"abstract": "Phages, the most abundant and diverse lifeforms on Earth, require strict parasitism for survival. During infection, temperate phages integrate both intracellular and extracellular host information to decide between lysis and lysogeny for replication. While various environmental and physiological factor... | 6,456 |
28899031 | PMC5812533 | pmc | 4,044 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The recent start-up of several full-scale ‘second generation’ ethanol plants marks a\nmajor milestone in the development of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains\nfor fermentation of lignocellulosic hydrolysates of agricultural residues and energy\ncrops. After a discussion of the challenges that... | 1,966 |
26769929 | PMC4714111 | pmc | 4,046 | {
"abstract": "We report here the complete sequence and fully manually curated annotation of the genome of strain Ch5, a new member of the piezophilic hyperthermophilic species Thermococcus barophilus ."
} | 47 |
38633354 | PMC11021937 | pmc | 4,049 | {
"abstract": "Cable bacteria are long, filamentous bacteria with a unique metabolism involving centimetre-scale electron transport. They are widespread in the sediment of seasonally hypoxic systems and their metabolic activity stimulates the dissolution of iron sulfides (FeS), releasing large quantities of ferrous i... | 5,618 |
29028004 | PMC5739016 | pmc | 4,050 | {
"abstract": "Oxygen-dependent microbial oxidation of sulfur compounds leads to the acidification of natural waters. How acidophiles and their acidic habitats evolved, however, is largely unknown. Using 16S rRNA gene abundance and composition data from 72 hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, we show th... | 8,502 |
35650244 | PMC9159989 | pmc | 4,053 | {
"abstract": "Understanding the stability of ecosystem multifunctionality is imperative for maintaining ecosystem health and sustainability under augmented global change. However it remains unknown whether and how biological communities mediate multifunctional stability in response to biodiversity loss and disturban... | 6,356 |
29180366 | PMC5772236 | pmc | 4,055 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT New environmentally sound technologies are needed to derive valuable compounds from renewable resources. Lignin, an abundant polymer in terrestrial plants comprised predominantly of guaiacyl and syringyl monoaromatic phenylpropanoid units, is a potential natural source of aromatic compounds. I... | 5,991 |
37016494 | PMC10116646 | pmc | 4,056 | {
"abstract": "Galvanized steel surfaces are widely used in industry\nas a solution\nto prevent corrosion of steel tools that operate in outdoor or corrosive\nand oxidative environments. These objects are coated with a zinc protective\nlayer deposited by hot dip galvanization. Turning the surface of galvanized\nsteel... | 5,542 |
22134863 | null | s2 | 4,057 | {
"abstract": "Episodic resource inputs (i.e., pulses) can affect food web properties and community dynamics, but detailed mechanistic understanding of such effects remain elusive. Natural aquatic microsystems (e.g., tree holes, human-made containers) are colonized by invertebrates that form complex food webs depende... | 430 |
38485722 | PMC10940724 | pmc | 4,058 | {
"abstract": "The ability to scale two-dimensional (2D) material thickness down to a single monolayer presents a promising opportunity to realize high-speed energy-efficient memristors. Here, we report an ultra-fast memristor fabricated using atomically thin sheets of 2D hexagonal Boron Nitride, exhibiting the short... | 1,513 |
35138660 | PMC9307002 | pmc | 4,060 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Carboxyl methyltransferase (CMT) enzymes catalyse the biomethylation of carboxylic acids under aqueous conditions and have potential for use in synthetic enzyme cascades. Herein we report that the enzyme FtpM from Aspergillus fumigatus can methylate a broad range of aromatic mono‐ and dicarb... | 7,277 |
36079585 | PMC9459794 | pmc | 4,061 | {
"abstract": "Plants interact with diverse microbial communities and share complex relationships with each other. The intimate association between microbes and their host mutually benefit each other and provide stability against various biotic and abiotic stresses to plants. Endophytes are heterogeneous groups of mi... | 1,550 |
35118426 | PMC8792420 | pmc | 4,063 | {
"abstract": "Summary Electroactive microorganisms (EAMs) are a group of microbes that can access solid extracellular electron donors or acceptors via extracellular electron transfer processes. EAMs are useful in developing various microbial electrochemical technologies. This protocol describes the use of bioelectro... | 179 |
40109114 | PMC11923619 | pmc | 4,064 | {
"abstract": "An important advantage to sociality is division of labour, which is often associated with specialization of group members, such as the polymorphic subcastes of ant workers. Given this advantage, it is puzzling that many social groups do not show clear specialization. Among ants, workers of closely rela... | 3,873 |
24267588 | PMC4053972 | pmc | 4,065 | {
"abstract": "Background ‘ Chlorochromatium aggregatum ’ is a phototrophic consortium, a symbiosis that may represent the highest degree of mutual interdependence between two unrelated bacteria not associated with a eukaryotic host. ‘ Chlorochromatium aggregatum ’ is a motile, barrel-shaped aggregate formed from a s... | 11,560 |
30275914 | PMC6161606 | pmc | 4,068 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT This paper proposes a bimorph piezoelectric vibration energy harvester (PVEH) with a flexible 3D meshed-core elastic layer for improving the output power while lowering the resonance frequency. Owing to the high void ratio of the 3D meshed-core structure, the bending stiffness of the cantileve... | 3,253 |
33432323 | PMC8023429 | pmc | 4,070 | {
"abstract": "Abstract \n Schlegelella thermodepolymerans is a moderately thermophilic bacterium capable of producing polyhydroxyalkanoates—biodegradable polymers representing an alternative to conventional plastics. Here, we present the first complete genome of the type strain S. thermodepolymerans DSM 15344 tha... | 2,178 |
32494605 | PMC7250678 | pmc | 4,071 | {
"abstract": "Capillary networks controlled by simple low-voltage gates open up new possibilities for fluid delivery in point-of-care assays.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION The use of microfluidics in lab-on-a-chip devices has already proven its benefits for a broad range of applications, including diagnostics, b... | 3,434 |
31095388 | null | s2 | 4,073 | {
"abstract": "The electrically conductive pili of Geobacter sulfurreducens are of both fundamental and practical interest. They facilitate extracellular and interspecies electron transfer (ET) and also provide an electrical interface between living and nonliving systems. We examine the possible mechanisms of G. sulf... | 250 |
27769259 | PMC5073922 | pmc | 4,074 | {
"abstract": "Background Engineering of single-species biofilms for enzymatic generation of fine chemicals is attractive. We have recently demonstrated the utility of an engineered Escherichia coli biofilm as a platform for synthesis of 5-halotryptophan. E. coli PHL644, expressing a recombinant tryptophan syntha... | 5,035 |
39443479 | PMC11499872 | pmc | 4,075 | {
"abstract": "Understanding how biotic interactions shape ecosystems and impact their functioning, resilience and biodiversity has been a sustained research priority in ecology. Yet, traditional assessments of ecological complexity typically focus on species-species interactions that mediate a particular function (e... | 9,912 |
39924797 | PMC11923527 | pmc | 4,078 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Soft materials with reversible electrical and mechanical properties are critical for the development of advanced bioelectronics that can distinguish between different rates of applied strain and eliminate performance degradation over many cycles. However, the current paradigm in mechano‐electr... | 7,835 |
29308237 | PMC5750004 | pmc | 4,079 | {
"abstract": "In comparison to the transportation and storage of hydrogen, methane has advantages in the practical application, while the emerging product termed as ‘biohythane’ could be an alternative to pure hydrogen or methane in a new form of energy recovery from microbial electrolysis cell (MEC). However, the c... | 4,344 |
25732131 | PMC4346804 | pmc | 4,082 | {
"abstract": "This study investigates interactions between recently identified denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation (DAMO) and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) processes in controlled anoxic laboratory reactors. Two reactors were seeded with the same inocula containing DAMO organisms Candidatus Methanope... | 1,768 |
26551153 | PMC4678148 | pmc | 4,083 | {
"abstract": "Anaerobic digestion enables the water industry to treat wastewater as a resource for generating energy and recovering valuable by-products. The complexity of the anaerobic digestion process has motivated the development of complex models. However, this complexity makes it intractable to pin-point stabi... | 2,931 |
37877089 | PMC10591227 | pmc | 4,085 | {
"abstract": "Rhizobia are soil bacteria that can establish a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with legume plants. As horizontally transmitted symbionts, the life cycle of rhizobia includes a free-living phase in the soil and a plant-associated symbiotic phase. Throughout this life cycle, rhizobia are exposed to a myriad o... | 2,234 |
24037739 | PMC4033532 | pmc | 4,086 | {
"abstract": "The significance of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in eukaryotic evolution remains controversial. Although many eukaryotic genes are of bacterial origin, they are often interpreted as being derived from mitochondria or plastids. Because of their fixed gene pool and gene loss, however, mitochondria and ... | 1,003 |
23415234 | null | s2 | 4,087 | {
"abstract": "The bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a dynamic organelle that bacteria use to target prey cells for inhibition via translocation of effector proteins. Time-lapse fluorescence microscopy has documented striking dynamics of opposed T6SS organelles in adjacent sister cells of Pseudomonas aerug... | 256 |
22074982 | PMC3256112 | pmc | 4,088 | {
"abstract": "Background Softwoods are the dominant source of lignocellulosic biomass in the northern hemisphere, and have been investigated worldwide as a renewable substrate for cellulosic ethanol production. One challenge to using softwoods, which is particularly acute with pine, is that the pretreatment process ... | 7,760 |
21648431 | null | s2 | 4,089 | {
"abstract": "The goal of this research was to quantify the variations in redox potential and pH in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 biofilms respiring on electrodes. We grew S. oneidensis MR-1 on a graphite electrode, which was used to accept electrons for microbial respiration. We modified well-known redox and pH microe... | 335 |
26925036 | PMC4757742 | pmc | 4,092 | {
"abstract": "In recent years, there has been an increase in the rate and severity of diseases affecting habitat-forming marine organisms, such as corals, sponges, and macroalgae. Delisea pulchra is a temperate red macroalga that suffers from a bleaching disease that is more frequent during summer, when seawater t... | 3,990 |
34056152 | PMC8153368 | pmc | 4,093 | {
"abstract": "The search for suitable\nstrategies to manufacture self-healable\nnitrile rubber (NBR) composites is the most promising part in the\nindustrial field of polar rubber research. In recent years, some important\nstrategies, specifically, metal–ligand coordination bond formation,\nionic bond formation, and... | 1,581 |
37274162 | PMC10232882 | pmc | 4,094 | {
"abstract": "The effective and cheap production of platform chemicals is a crucial step towards the transition to a bio-based economy. In this work, biotechnological methods using sustainable, cheap, and readily available raw materials bring bio-economy and industrial microbiology together: Microbial production of ... | 3,529 |
29666242 | PMC5948967 | pmc | 4,095 | {
"abstract": "Significance Synthetic polymers are ubiquitous in the modern world but pose a global environmental problem. While plastics such as poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) are highly versatile, their resistance to natural degradation presents a serious, growing risk to fauna and flora, particularly in marine... | 1,922 |
32085468 | PMC7074800 | pmc | 4,096 | {
"abstract": "Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been used for wastewater treatment and production of renewable energy or biogas. Propionate accumulation is one of the important problems leading to an unstable system and low methane production. Revealing propionate-degrading microbiome is necessary to gain a better knowle... | 4,152 |
21513516 | PMC3107774 | pmc | 4,098 | {
"abstract": "Background The substitution of plastics based on fossil raw material by biodegradable plastics produced from renewable resources is of crucial importance in a context of oil scarcity and overflowing plastic landfills. One of the most promising organisms for the manufacturing of medium-chain-length poly... | 3,523 |
27386575 | PMC4928966 | pmc | 4,099 | {
"abstract": "Coherent X-rays reveal defects in photonic crystals of butterfly wings.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION Light interference, as was realized as early as the beginning of the 19th century ( 1 ), is a common cause of the bright coloring of various animals such as the spine of the sea mouse ( 2 ), butter... | 2,971 |
38459042 | PMC10923942 | pmc | 4,101 | {
"abstract": "The development of advanced materials capable of autonomous self-healing and mechanical stimulus sensing in aquatic environments holds great promise for applications in underwater soft electronics, underwater robotics, and water-resistant human-machine interfaces. However, achieving superior autonomous... | 2,100 |
24136711 | null | s2 | 4,102 | {
"abstract": "Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are genetically encoded protein polymers that reversibly phase separate in response to stimuli. They respond sharply to small shifts in temperature and form dense microdomains in the living eukaryotic cytosol. For the first time, this communication illustrates how to tu... | 108 |
39747054 | PMC11695776 | pmc | 4,105 | {
"abstract": "Photosynthesis harvests solar energy to convert CO 2 into chemicals, offering a potential solution to reduce atmospheric CO 2 . However, integrating photosynthesis into non-photosynthetic microbes to utilize one-carbon substrates is challenging. Here, a photosynthesis system is reconstructed in E. co... | 3,886 |
23965677 | null | s2 | 4,106 | {
"abstract": "High shear stresses are known to trigger destructive bond-scission reactions in polymers. Recent work has shown that the same shear forces can be used to accelerate non-destructive reactions in mechanophores along polymer backbones, and it is demonstrated here that such mechanochemical reactions can be... | 264 |
38390295 | PMC10883063 | pmc | 4,107 | {
"abstract": "Lowland meadows represent aboveground and belowground biodiversity reservoirs in intensive agricultural areas, improving water retention and filtration, ensuring forage production, contrasting erosion and contributing to soil fertility and carbon sequestration. Besides such major ecosystem services, th... | 5,342 |
37854302 | PMC10580283 | pmc | 4,108 | {
"abstract": "The undesired spontaneous deposition and accumulation\nof matter\non surfaces, better known as fouling, is a problematic and often inevitable\nprocess plaguing a variety of industries. This detrimental process\ncan be reduced or even prevented by coating surfaces with a dense\nlayer of end-grafted poly... | 10,337 |
35604933 | PMC9166356 | pmc | 4,109 | {
"abstract": "Exploiting biological processes to recycle renewable carbon into high value platform chemicals provides a sustainable and greener alternative to current reliance on petrochemicals. In this regard Cupriavidus necator H16 represents a particularly promising microbial chassis due to its ability to grow ... | 4,581 |
19788541 | null | s2 | 4,111 | {
"abstract": "Matrix production during biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis is governed by a gene control circuit at the heart of which are three dedicated regulatory proteins, the antirepressor SinI, the repressor SinR and the downstream regulator SlrR. Matrix production is triggered by the synthesis of SinI, whi... | 331 |
24044876 | PMC3848690 | pmc | 4,112 | {
"abstract": "Background Succinic acid (SA) has become a prominent biobased platform chemical with global production quantities increasing annually. Numerous genetically modified E. coli strains have been developed with the main aim of increasing the SA yield of the organic carbon source. In this study, a promisin... | 2,943 |
40244660 | PMC12037064 | pmc | 4,115 | {
"abstract": "Significance Microbial ecosystems in nature exhibit dynamic lifecycles, cycling through distinct physiological states for the microbes as they switch between active growth, stressed states, and dormancy. Constructing mechanistic bottom–up models that incorporate these changes is challenging because exp... | 2,691 |
30674830 | PMC6209286 | pmc | 4,116 | {
"abstract": "One strategy that has gained much attention in the last decades is the understanding and further mimicking of structures and behaviours found in nature, as inspiration to develop materials with additional functionalities. This review presents recent advances in stimuli-responsive gels with emphasis on ... | 2,035 |
22018401 | PMC3333776 | pmc | 4,117 | {
"abstract": "Background The rhizosphere is the microbe-rich zone around plant roots and is a key determinant of the biosphere's productivity. Comparative transcriptomics was used to investigate general and plant-specific adaptations during rhizosphere colonization. Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae was grow... | 9,658 |
38013927 | PMC10566253 | pmc | 4,120 | {
"abstract": "Biohybrid photosynthesis systems, which combine biological and non-biological materials, have attracted recent interest in solar-to-chemical energy conversion. However, the solar efficiencies of such systems remain low, despite advances in both artificial photosynthesis and synthetic biology. Here we d... | 1,744 |
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