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22529839 | PMC3328120 | pmc | 5,082 | {
"abstract": "The bioavailability of iron to microorganisms and its underlying mechanisms have far reaching repercussions to many natural systems and diverse fields of research, including ocean biogeochemistry, carbon cycling and climate, harmful algal blooms, soil and plant research, bioremediation, pathogenesis, a... | 2,762 |
23209744 | PMC3510198 | pmc | 5,083 | {
"abstract": "Home is a special location for many animals, offering shelter from the elements, protection from predation, and a common place for gathering of the same species. Not surprisingly, many species have evolved efficient, robust homing strategies, which are used as part of each and every foraging journey. A... | 3,819 |
36298205 | PMC9610894 | pmc | 5,085 | {
"abstract": "Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) play a key role in deep learning applications. However, the high computational complexity and high-energy consumption of CNNs trammel their application in hardware accelerators. Computing-in-memory (CIM) is the technique of running calculations entirely in memory (i... | 1,938 |
30953787 | PMC6557310 | pmc | 5,086 | {
"abstract": "Understanding how plants respond to nitrogen in their environment is crucial for determining how they use it and how the nitrogen use affects other processes related to plant growth and development. Under nitrogen limitation the activity and affinity of uptake systems is increased in roots, and lateral... | 9,159 |
39976164 | PMC11883240 | pmc | 5,087 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The desert ant Cataglyphis fortis inhabits the harsh and featureless North African saltpans. Individuals forage long distances and return to their inconspicuous nest entrance using path integration, but also rely on visual and olfactory landmarks. Here, we investigated the navigational decis... | 3,734 |
38972887 | PMC11228038 | pmc | 5,088 | {
"abstract": "This study addresses the challenges in large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) clusters, specifically the scalability issues and limitations of using reactive routing protocols for inter-cluster routing. These traditional methods place an excessive burden on cluster heads and struggle to adapt to fre... | 3,040 |
25462851 | null | s2 | 5,089 | {
"abstract": "In the present study, an artificial spider silk gene, 6mer, derived from the consensus sequence of Nephila clavipes dragline silk gene, was fused with different silica-binding peptides (SiBPs), A1, A3 and R5, to study the impact of the fusion protein sequence chemistry on silica formation and the abili... | 470 |
26379660 | PMC4552172 | pmc | 5,090 | {
"abstract": "In Pseudomonas aeruginosa the Gac signaling system and the second messenger cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) participate in the control of the switch between planktonic and biofilm lifestyles, by regulating the production of the two exopolysaccharides Pel and Psl. The Gac and c-di-GMP regulatory network... | 3,904 |
33240241 | PMC7680738 | pmc | 5,092 | {
"abstract": "Artificially stimulated, high-yield microbial production of methane from coal is a challenging problem that continues to generate research interest. Decomposition of organic matter and production of methane from coal are the results of multiple redox reactions carried out by different communities of ba... | 4,246 |
33597941 | PMC7882529 | pmc | 5,094 | {
"abstract": "The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) is a central issue in soil and microbial ecology. To date, most belowground BEF studies focus on the diversity of microbes analyzed by barcoding on total DNA, which targets both active and inactive microbes. This approach creates a b... | 5,523 |
37303745 | PMC10251114 | pmc | 5,095 | {
"abstract": "Combining engineering and biology surely must be a route to delivering solutions to the world's most pressing problems in depleting resources, energy and the environment. Engineers and biologists have long recognized the power in coupling their disciplines and have evolved a healthy variety of approach... | 4,328 |
35678574 | PMC9241951 | pmc | 5,097 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Methanotrophs, which help regulate atmospheric levels of methane, are active in diverse natural and man-made environments. This range of habitats and the feast-famine cycles seen by many environmental methanotrophs suggest that methanotrophs dynamically mediate rates of methane oxidation. Glob... | 9,112 |
38076074 | PMC10709053 | pmc | 5,098 | {
"abstract": "The rapid development of society and industry as well as the frequent occurrence of oil spills cause the shortage of fresh water resources, which not only affects human safety and life, but also impedes the world-wide sustainable development. To address these challenges, novel membrane materials with u... | 7,816 |
22817690 | PMC3521176 | pmc | 5,099 | {
"abstract": "Background The positive relationship between habitat area and species number is considered a fundamental rule in ecology. This relationship predicts that the link number of species interactions increases with habitat area, and structure is related to habitat area. Biological invasions can affect specie... | 2,635 |
26779881 | null | s2 | 5,101 | {
"abstract": "Polyelectrolyte complexation is critical to the formation and properties of many biological and polymeric materials, and is typically initiated by aqueous mixing followed by fluid-fluid phase separation, such as coacervation. Yet little to nothing is known about how coacervates evolve into intricate so... | 282 |
29390143 | PMC5808792 | pmc | 5,102 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The genus Methylocystis belongs to the class Alphaproteobacteria , the family Methylocystaceae , and encompasses aerobic methanotrophic bacteria with the serine pathway of carbon assimilation. All Methylocystis species are able to fix dinitrogen and several members of this genus are also... | 4,791 |
25108218 | null | s2 | 5,104 | {
"abstract": "Advances in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering have enabled the construction of novel biological routes to valuable chemicals using suitable microbial hosts. Aldehydes serve as chemical feedstocks in the synthesis of rubbers, plastics, and other larger molecules. Microbial production of alkane... | 395 |
31361464 | null | s2 | 5,105 | {
"abstract": "Synthetic microbial consortia consist of two or more engineered strains that grow together and share the same resources. When intercellular signaling pathways are included in the engineered strains, close proximity of the microbes can generate complex dynamic behaviors that are difficult to obtain usin... | 166 |
26101545 | PMC4476231 | pmc | 5,108 | {
"abstract": "Background Large-scale algal biofuel production has been limited, among other factors, by the availability of inorganic carbon in the culture medium at concentrations higher than achievable with atmospheric CO 2 . Life cycle analyses have concluded that costs associated with supplying CO 2 to algal cu... | 8,160 |
36615996 | PMC9824178 | pmc | 5,109 | {
"abstract": "The antifogging coating based on super-hydrophilic polymer is regarded as the most promising strategy to avoid fogging but suffers from short-term effectiveness due to antifogging failure induced by water invasion. In this study, a black phosphorus nanosheets (BPs) hybrid polymer hetero-network coating... | 4,698 |
24860649 | PMC4018179 | pmc | 5,110 | {
"abstract": "Microorganisms are rarely found in isolation. Frequently, they live as complex consortia or communities known as biofilms. The microbes within these complex structures are typically enmeshed in a matrix of macromolecules collectively known as the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). The last decad... | 943 |
34522307 | PMC8386638 | pmc | 5,111 | {
"abstract": "The molecular level transfer of stress from a stiff percolating filler to a stretchable matrix is a crucial and generic mechanism of toughening in soft materials. Yet the molecular details of how this transfer occurs have so far been experimentally unreachable. Model multiple network elastomers contain... | 3,537 |
31187921 | null | s2 | 5,112 | {
"abstract": "Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are ubiquitous aquatic microorganisms that mineralize dissolved iron into intracellular magnetic crystals. After cell death, these crystals are trapped into sediments that remove iron from the soluble pool. MTB may significantly impact the iron biogeochemical cycle, especia... | 209 |
30930534 | null | s2 | 5,114 | {
"abstract": "Despite the common association of π-conjugated polymers with flexible and stretchable electronics, these materials can be rigid and brittle unless they are designed otherwise. For example, low modulus, high extensibility, and high toughness are treated as prerequisites for integration with soft and bio... | 292 |
31699148 | PMC6839119 | pmc | 5,116 | {
"abstract": "Background Rhizosphere microbial communities are key regulators of plant performance, yet few studies have assessed the impact of different management approaches on the rhizosphere microbiomes of major crops. Rhizosphere microbial communities are shaped by interactions between agricultural management a... | 6,057 |
36882570 | PMC9992702 | pmc | 5,118 | {
"abstract": "The oscillating redox conditions that characterize coastal sandy sediments foster microbial communities capable of respiring oxygen and nitrate simultaneously, thereby increasing the potential for organic matter remineralization, nitrogen (N)-loss and emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. It i... | 8,034 |
30746438 | PMC6357865 | pmc | 5,121 | {
"abstract": "A microfluidic approach enables quick quantification of electrochemical activity in living bacteria.",
"introduction": "INTRODUCTION Extracellular electron transfer (EET) ( 1 , 2 ) is the capacity for microbes to transfer electrons between their interior and external electron donors or acceptors dur... | 3,482 |
33646814 | null | s2 | 5,122 | {
"abstract": "Directed evolution is a form of artificial selection that has been used for decades to find biomolecules and organisms with new or enhanced functional traits. Directed evolution can be conceptualized as a guided exploration of the genotype-phenotype map, where genetic variants with desirable phenotypes... | 242 |
31337658 | PMC6650546 | pmc | 5,125 | {
"abstract": "Microbial methane oxidation plays a fundamental role in the biogeochemical cycle of Earth’s system. Recent reports have provided evidence for the acquisition of methane monooxygenases by horizontal gene transfer in methane-oxidizing bacteria from different environments, but how evolution has shaped the... | 2,955 |
34833251 | PMC8625594 | pmc | 5,126 | {
"abstract": "In this study, a novel idea was proposed to convert the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) waste drinking-water bottles into activated carbon (AC) to use for waste cooking oil (WCO) and palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD) feasibility to convert into esters. The acidic and basic char were prepared by using ... | 4,248 |
37538294 | PMC10394688 | pmc | 5,127 | {
"abstract": "Atmospheric water harvesting is a sustainable solution\nto global\nwater shortage, which requires high efficiency, high durability, low\ncost, and environmentally friendly water collectors. In this paper,\nwe report a novel water collector design based on a nature-inspired\nhybrid superhydrophilic/supe... | 11,237 |
38820146 | PMC11141615 | pmc | 5,129 | {
"abstract": "In recent years, there has been a growing interest in engineering dynamic and autonomous systems with robotic functionalities using biomolecules. Specifically, the ability of molecular motors to convert chemical energy to mechanical forces and the programmability of DNA are regarded as promising compon... | 2,164 |
24675756 | PMC3968457 | pmc | 5,130 | {
"abstract": "Cyanobacteria are oxygenic photosynthetic prokaryotes that play important roles in the global carbon cycle. Recently, engineered cyanobacteria capable of producing various small molecules from CO 2 have been developed. However, cyanobacteria are seldom considered as factories for producing proteins, m... | 1,323 |
33746921 | PMC7973049 | pmc | 5,132 | {
"abstract": "The continuous cropping of plants can result in the disruption of the soil microbial community and caused significant declines in yields. However, there are few reports on the effects of continuous cropping of sugarcane on the microbial community structure and functional pathway. In the current study, ... | 8,751 |
22381679 | null | s2 | 5,134 | {
"abstract": "Predicting whether and how organisms will successfully cope with climate change presents critical questions for biologists and environmental scientists. Models require knowing how organisms interact with their abiotic environment, as well understanding biotic interactions that include a network of symb... | 263 |
20795657 | null | s2 | 5,135 | {
"abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have been known to increase metal uptake in plants. In this study, mesquite (Prosopis juliflora-velutina) inoculated with Glomus deserticola or amended with EDTA were grown for 30 days in soil containing Cr(III) or Cr(VI) at 0, 40, 80, and 160 mg kg(-1). Total amylase activ... | 244 |
27590816 | PMC5086560 | pmc | 5,136 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT The interior of plants contains microorganisms (referred to as endophytes) that are distinct from those present at the root surface or in the surrounding soil. Herbaspirillum seropedicae strain SmR1, belonging to the betaproteobacteria, is an endophyte that colonizes crops, including rice, m... | 6,570 |
28690595 | PMC5481317 | pmc | 5,137 | {
"abstract": "Anaerobic digestion for biogas production is reliant on the tightly coupled synergistic activities of complex microbial consortia. Members of the uncultured A6 phylotype, within the phylum Chloroflexi, are among the most abundant genus-level-taxa of mesophilic anaerobic digester systems treating primar... | 5,249 |
38289136 | PMC10880630 | pmc | 5,139 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Engineering the plant microbiome with beneficial endophytic bacteria can improve the growth, health, and productivity of the holobiont. Here, we administered two beneficial bacterial strains, Kosakonia VR04 sp. and Rhizobium GR12 sp., to micropropagated grapevine cuttings obtained via soma... | 3,569 |
39452789 | PMC11510107 | pmc | 5,140 | {
"abstract": "Mechanical signals from the extracellular matrix are crucial in guiding cellular behavior. Two-dimensional hydrogel substrates for cell cultures serve as exceptional tools for mechanobiology studies because they mimic the biomechanical and adhesive characteristics of natural environments. However, the ... | 1,695 |
36507711 | PMC9871532 | pmc | 5,142 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Cattle manure has a low energy content and high fibre and water content, limiting its value for biogas production. Co‐digestion with a more energy‐dense material can improve the output, but the co‐substrate composition that gives the best results in terms of degree of degradation, gas producti... | 8,746 |
37245065 | PMC10549214 | pmc | 5,143 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The successful design of economically viable bioprocesses can help to abate global dependence on petroleum, increase supply chain resilience, and add value to agriculture. Specifically, bioprocessing provides the opportunity to replace petrochemical production methods with biological methods... | 2,478 |
20811456 | PMC2936489 | pmc | 5,144 | {
"abstract": "Bacteria show remarkable adaptability in the face of antibiotic therapeutics. Resistance alleles in drug target-specific sites and general stress responses have been identified in individual endpoint isolates 1 – 7 . Less is known, however, about the population dynamics during the development of antibi... | 351 |
29026096 | PMC5638848 | pmc | 5,145 | {
"abstract": "Methane generated during enteric fermentation in ruminant livestock species is a major contributor to global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. A period of moderate feed restriction followed by ad libitum access to feed is widely applied in cattle management to exploit the animal’s compensatory ... | 4,745 |
21596990 | null | s2 | 5,146 | {
"abstract": "Coevolution of mammals and their gut microbiota has profoundly affected their radiation into myriad habitats. We used shotgun sequencing of microbial community DNA and targeted sequencing of bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA genes to gain an understanding of how microbial communities adapt to extremes of die... | 204 |
33418935 | PMC7825067 | pmc | 5,147 | {
"abstract": "Thermal management has become one of the crucial factors in designing electronic equipment and therefore creating composites with high thermal conductivity is necessary. In this work, a new insight on hybrid filler strategy is proposed to enhance the thermal conductivity in Thermoplastic polyurethanes ... | 8,083 |
40050947 | PMC11887087 | pmc | 5,149 | {
"abstract": "This study is the first to apply dilute acid pretreatment (DAP) under different severity conditions to poplar wood genetically modified for the cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase ( CAD1 ) gene, which is involved in the lignin biosynthesis pathway. The carefully selected pretreatment conditions resulted i... | 3,814 |
33533590 | PMC7899176 | pmc | 5,150 | {
"abstract": "In this study, the possibilities of noise tailoring in filamentary resistive switching\nmemory devices are investigated. To this end, the resistance and frequency scaling of\nthe low-frequency 1/ f -type noise properties are studied in\nrepresentative mainstream material systems. It is shown that the o... | 8,627 |
30951668 | null | s2 | 5,151 | {
"abstract": "Long-range (>10 μm) transport of electrons along networks of Geobacter sulfurreducens protein filaments, known as microbial nanowires, has been invoked to explain a wide range of globally important redox phenomena. These nanowires were previously thought to be type IV pili composed of PilA protein. Her... | 270 |
37577445 | PMC10416242 | pmc | 5,152 | {
"abstract": "Microbes continually shape Earth’s biochemical and physical landscapes by inhabiting diverse metabolic niches. Despite the important role microbes play in ecosystem functioning, most microbial species remain unknown highlighting a gap in our understanding of structured complex ecosystems. To elucidate ... | 3,833 |
35197806 | PMC8857939 | pmc | 5,153 | {
"abstract": "Abstract Studies of self-organizing groups like schools of fish or flocks of birds have sought to uncover the behavioral rules individuals use (local-level interactions) to coordinate their motion (global-level patterns). However, empirical studies tend to focus on short-term or one-off observations wh... | 3,868 |
37661811 | PMC10478748 | pmc | 5,154 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Algae-based biofuel developed over the past decade has become a viable substitute for petroleum-based energy sources. Due to their high lipid accumulation rates and low carbon dioxide emissions, microalgal species are considered highly valuable feedstock for biofuel generation. This review art... | 3,118 |
35520454 | PMC9054217 | pmc | 5,157 | {
"abstract": "A synthetic route to amphiphilic conetwork (APCN) gels was developed and involved (1) a ring-opening polymerization (ROP) synthesis of the macromonomer HEMA-PLLA/PDLA, and (2) a radical polymerization of a stereocomplex of the synthesized macromonomers with P(MEO 2 MA- co -OEGMA) to form the APCN gels.... | 5,886 |
35798840 | PMC7613230 | pmc | 5,158 | {
"abstract": "Phosphorus (P) acquisition is key for plant growth. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) help plants acquire P from soil. Understanding which factors drive AMF-supported nutrient uptake is essential to develop more sustainable agroecosystems. Here, we collected soils from 150 cereal fields and 60 non-cro... | 4,349 |
37210404 | PMC10199937 | pmc | 5,159 | {
"abstract": "Bathymodioline mussels rely on thiotrophic and/or methanotrophic chemosynthetic symbionts for nutrition, yet, secondary heterotrophic symbionts are often present and play an unknown role in the fitness of the organism. The bathymodioline Idas mussels that thrive in gas seeps and on sunken wood in the... | 10,958 |
20217779 | null | s2 | 5,160 | {
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40075558 | PMC11903912 | pmc | 5,162 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Warming seawater temperatures and low dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) levels are environmental stressors that affect the health and abundance of marine macroalgae and their microbiomes. Nereocystis luetkeana , a canopy‐forming species of brown algae that forms critical habitat along the Pa... | 6,288 |
30616349 | null | s2 | 5,164 | {
"abstract": "Biomacromolecules often possess information to self-assemble through low energy competing interactions which can make self-assembly responsive to environmental cues and can also confer dynamic properties. Here, we coupled self-assembling systems to create biofunctional multilayer films that can be cued... | 300 |
32649019 | PMC7769238 | pmc | 5,165 | {
"abstract": "Summary High‐temperature bioconversion of lignocellulose into fermentable sugars has drawn attention for efficient production of renewable chemicals and biofuels, because competing microbial activities are inhibited at elevated temperatures and thermostable cell wall degrading enzymes are superior to m... | 4,743 |
25319678 | null | s2 | 5,166 | {
"abstract": "Industrial biotechnology and microbial metabolic engineering are poised to help meet the growing demand for sustainable, low-cost commodity chemicals and natural products, yet the fraction of biochemicals amenable to commercial production remains limited. Common problems afflicting the current state-of... | 376 |
34576705 | PMC8466333 | pmc | 5,167 | {
"abstract": "A new biorefinery concept is proposed that integrates the novel LX-Pretreatment with the fermentative production of L-(+)-lactic acid. Lignocellulose was chosen as a substrate that does not compete with the provision of food or feed. Furthermore, it contains lignin, a promising new chemical building ma... | 3,856 |
37753963 | PMC10538451 | pmc | 5,168 | {
"abstract": "ABSTRACT Methanogens, reductive acetogens and sulfate-reducing bacteria play an important role in disposing of hydrogen in gut ecosystems. However, how they interact with each other remains largely unknown. This in vitro study cocultured Blautia hydrogenotrophica (reductive acetogen), Desulfovibri... | 3,285 |
31857604 | PMC6923392 | pmc | 5,169 | {
"abstract": "The emergence of memristor technologies brings new prospects for modern electronics via enabling novel in-memory computing solutions and energy-efficient and scalable reconfigurable hardware implementations. Several competing memristor technologies have been presented with each bearing distinct perform... | 1,880 |
37786262 | PMC10724387 | pmc | 5,170 | {
"abstract": "Abstract The performance limitations of traditional computer architectures have led to the rise of brain‐inspired hardware, with optical solutions gaining popularity due to the energy efficiency, high speed, and scalability of linear operations. However, the use of optics to emulate the synaptic activi... | 2,917 |
37083527 | PMC10121165 | pmc | 5,174 | {
"abstract": "Nanowire networks (NWNs) mimic the brain’s neurosynaptic connectivity and emergent dynamics. Consequently, NWNs may also emulate the synaptic processes that enable higher-order cognitive functions such as learning and memory. A quintessential cognitive task used to measure human working memory is the ... | 4,138 |
37602224 | PMC10435966 | pmc | 5,175 | {
"abstract": "Summary Spiking neural networks (SNNs) serve as a promising computational framework for integrating insights from the brain into artificial intelligence (AI). Existing software infrastructures based on SNNs exclusively support brain simulation or brain-inspired AI, but not both simultaneously. To decod... | 4,139 |
31428070 | PMC6688125 | pmc | 5,176 | {
"abstract": "Biofilms provide cells favorable growth conditions, which have been exploited in industrial biotechnological processes. However, industrial application of the biofilm has not yet been reported in Escherichia coli , one of the most important platform strains, though the biofilm has been extensively stu... | 5,972 |
38127977 | PMC10756307 | pmc | 5,177 | {
"abstract": "Significance Life on earth relies on sunlight for energy, but this energy can only be exploited through the collective recycling of matter by communities of microbes, plants, and animals. Yet we lack a framework for understanding how ecosystems can organize themselves to collectively capture the sun’s ... | 1,937 |
35540083 | PMC9076254 | pmc | 5,179 | {
"abstract": "The influence of elastic deformation and elastic modulus on the release of adhered bacteria was investigated in this paper. Four silicone elastomers (SE) with different elastic moduli and one rigid polystyrene sheet were prepared to verify the antifouling effect of elastic deformation. The SE film has ... | 6,288 |
33924411 | PMC8069042 | pmc | 5,182 | {
"abstract": "Microbiological tools, biofertilizers, and biocontrol agents, which are bacteria and fungi capable of providing beneficial outcomes in crop plant growth and health, have been developed for several decades. Currently we have a selection of strains available as products for agriculture, predominantly bas... | 2,726 |
39397304 | PMC11471926 | pmc | 5,184 | {
"abstract": "Bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is a destructive disease that affects potato production, leading to severe yield losses. Currently, little is known about the changes in the assembly and functional adaptation of potato rhizosphere microbial communities during different stages of R. so... | 3,264 |
28924453 | PMC5598073 | pmc | 5,186 | {
"abstract": "Background The selective lignin-degrading white-rot fungi are regarded to be the best lignin degraders and have been widely used for reducing the saccharification recalcitrance of lignocellulose. However, the biological delignification and conversion of lignocellulose in biorefinery is still limited. I... | 8,051 |
36850143 | PMC9961285 | pmc | 5,187 | {
"abstract": "Plastics are engineering marvels that have found widespread use in all aspects of modern life. However, poor waste management practices and inefficient recycling technologies, along with their extremely high durability, have caused one of the major environmental problems facing humankind: waste plastic... | 5,257 |
26872039 | PMC5029171 | pmc | 5,189 | {
"abstract": "The chemolithoautotrophic microbial community of the rocky subseafloor potentially provides a large amount of organic carbon to the deep ocean, yet our understanding of the activity and metabolic complexity of subseafloor organisms remains poorly described. A combination of metagenomic, metatranscripto... | 6,304 |
37180017 | PMC10168023 | pmc | 5,190 | {
"abstract": "The upcycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) waste can simultaneously produce value-added chemicals and reduce the growing environmental impact of plastic waste. In this study, we designed a chemobiological system to convert terephthalic acid (TPA), an aromatic monomer of PET, to β-ketoadipic ac... | 5,472 |
34440597 | PMC8401924 | pmc | 5,191 | {
"abstract": "The large production of non-degradable petrol-based plastics has become a major global issue due to its environmental pollution. Biopolymers produced by microorganisms such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are gaining potential as a sustainable alternative, but the high cost associated with their indust... | 4,535 |
28211468 | PMC5314357 | pmc | 5,192 | {
"abstract": "The use of lubricants (solid or liquid) is a well-known and suitable approach to reduce friction and wear of moving machine components. Another possibility to influence the tribological behaviour is the formation of well-defined surface topographies such as dimples, bumps or lattice-like pattern geomet... | 7,479 |
35434604 | PMC9006728 | pmc | 5,196 | {
"abstract": "Cyanobacteria are potent microorganisms for sustainable photo-biotechnological production processes, as they are depending mainly on water, light, and carbon dioxide. Persisting challenges preventing their application include low biomass, as well as insufficient process stability and productivity. Here... | 3,388 |
31420965 | PMC7384014 | pmc | 5,197 | {
"abstract": "Summary \n Pectobacterium atrosepticum SCRI1043 is a phytopathogenic Gram‐negative enterobacterium. Genomic analysis has identified that genes required for both respiration and fermentation are expressed under anaerobic conditions. One set of anaerobically expressed genes is predicted to encode an imp... | 5,897 |
25868062 | null | s2 | 5,198 | {
"abstract": "Metabolic engineering strategies have enabled improvements in yield and titer for a variety of valuable small molecules produced naturally in microorganisms, as well as those produced via heterologous pathways. Typically, the approaches have been focused on up- and downregulation of genes to redistribu... | 272 |
39741173 | PMC11688422 | pmc | 5,202 | {
"abstract": "Despite a lot of efforts devoted to construct efficient microbiomes, there are still major obstacles to moving from the lab to industrial applications due to the inapplicability of existing technologies or limited understanding of microbiome variation regularity. Here we show a domestication strategy t... | 7,809 |
32991583 | PMC7546477 | pmc | 5,203 | {
"abstract": "Dynamic flux balance analysis uses a quasi-steady state assumption to calculate an organism’s metabolic activity at each time-step of a dynamic simulation, using the well-known technique of flux balance analysis. For microbial communities, this calculation is especially costly and involves solving a li... | 2,066 |
35492552 | PMC9047333 | pmc | 5,204 | {
"abstract": "This paper presents a green method for fabricating dual temperature- and pH-responsive electrospun fibrous mats from an aqueous-based blend poly( N -isopropylacrylamide- co -acrylic acid) (P(NIPAAm- co -AAc)) and regenerated silk fibroin (RSF) by employing electrospinning technique. P(NIPAAm- co -AAc) ... | 6,526 |
22099187 | null | s2 | 5,205 | {
"abstract": "N-Acyl-L-homoserine lactones (AHLs) are a major class of quorum-sensing signals used by Gram-negative bacteria to regulate gene expression in a population-dependent manner, thereby enabling group behavior. Enzymes capable of generating and catabolizing AHL signals are of significant interest for the st... | 168 |
32839450 | PMC7445162 | pmc | 5,206 | {
"abstract": "Intercellular signaling is indispensable for single cells to form complex biological structures, such as biofilms, tissues and organs. The genetic tools available for engineering intercellular signaling, however, are quite limited. Here we exploit the chemical diversity of biological small molecules to... | 2,887 |
40343886 | PMC12063886 | pmc | 5,208 | {
"abstract": "The structure and function of plant-associated fungal communities (i.e. mycobiome) is shaped by biotic and abiotic factors, and can impact plant community dynamics. We evaluated the effects of different environmental factors in structuring the communities of seedling-associated fungi in temperate tree ... | 4,039 |
24862580 | PMC4033924 | pmc | 5,209 | {
"abstract": "Living organisms have to adjust to their surrounding in order to survive in stressful conditions. We study this mechanism in one of most primitive creatures – photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria. These bacteria absorb photons very efficiently using the chlorosome antenna complexes and perform photosyn... | 1,839 |
36639807 | PMC9840269 | pmc | 5,212 | {
"abstract": "Background The microbiome of the Sinai Desert farming system plays an important role in the adaptive strategy of growing crops in a harsh, poly-extreme, desert environment. However, the diversity and function of microbial communities under this unfavorable moisture and nutritional conditions have not y... | 2,298 |
23637740 | PMC3634786 | pmc | 5,213 | {
"abstract": "It is thought that the science of ecology has experienced conceptual shifts in recent decades, chiefly from viewing nature as static and balanced to a conception of constantly changing, unpredictable, complex ecosystems. Here, we ask if these changes are reflected in actual ecological research over the... | 3,802 |
28317065 | PMC5486607 | pmc | 5,215 | {
"abstract": "The impact of fungal endophytes and the modulating role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on the vitality of Verbascum lychnitis , grown in the laboratory in a substratum from a post-mining waste dump was investigated. We report that inoculation with a single endophyte negatively affected the surv... | 6,161 |
27102357 | PMC4840358 | pmc | 5,216 | {
"abstract": "Understanding the diversity and community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is important for potentially optimizing their role in mining phosphorus (P) in agricultural ecosystems. Here, we conduct a comprehensive study to investigate the vertical distribution of AMF in a calcareous field ... | 3,659 |
35562544 | PMC9106740 | pmc | 5,219 | {
"abstract": "Microbial lifestyles may reveal niche-specific signatures and can contribute to detecting the effects of abiotic fluctuations on biogeochemical cycles. Microorganisms make a tradeoff between optimizing nutrient uptake, improving biomass yield, and overcoming environmental changes according to environme... | 3,105 |
35981004 | PMC9426924 | pmc | 5,220 | {
"abstract": "A general method to infer both positive and purifying selection during the real-time evolution of hypermutator pathogens would be broadly useful. To this end, we introduce a Simple Test to Infer Mode of Selection (STIMS) from metagenomic time series of evolving microbial populations. We test STIMS on m... | 4,585 |
27025898 | PMC4820995 | pmc | 5,221 | {
"abstract": "Being the only sustainable source of organic carbon, biomass is playing an ever-increasingly important role in our energy landscape. The conversion of renewable lignocellulosic biomass into liquid fuels is particularly attractive but extremely challenging due to the inertness and complexity of lignocel... | 562 |
37389550 | PMC10485807 | pmc | 5,222 | {
"abstract": "Contact electrification\nis an interfacial process in which two\nsurfaces exchange electrical charges when they are in contact with\none another. Consequently, the surfaces may gain opposite polarity,\ninducing an electrostatic attraction. Therefore, this principle can\nbe exploited to generate electri... | 2,198 |
36547355 | PMC9778368 | pmc | 5,225 | {
"abstract": "Generated by a hierarchical and multiscale self-assembling phenomenon, peptide-based hydrogels (HGs) are soft materials useful for a variety of applications. Short and ultra-short peptides are intriguing building blocks for hydrogel fabrication. These matrices can also be obtained by mixing low-molecul... | 8,976 |
28961252 | PMC5621664 | pmc | 5,226 | {
"abstract": "This paper investigates a well-known complex combinatorial problem known as the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW). Unlike the standard vehicle routing problem, each customer in the VRPTW is served within a given time constraint. This paper solves the VRPTW using an improved artificial b... | 2,229 |
37210399 | PMC10199942 | pmc | 5,227 | {
"abstract": "The motional consensus of self-propelled particles is studied in both noise-free cases and cases with noise by the standard Vicsek model. In the absence of noise, we propose a simple method, using grid-based technique and defining the normalized variance of the ratio of the number of particles locally ... | 16,289 |
27606598 | PMC5015988 | pmc | 5,228 | {
"abstract": "Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by global and local anthropogenic stressors such as rising seawater temperature, nutrient enrichment, sedimentation, and overfishing. Although many studies have investigated the impacts of local and global stressors on coral reefs, we still do not fully understan... | 6,199 |
35530790 | PMC9072994 | pmc | 5,229 | {
"abstract": "A tannin-based hybrid coating was coated on the PVDF membrane surface through a simple one-step co-deposition of tannin and KH550. A micro/nano hierarchical structure was formed on the PVDF membrane surface through hydrolysis/condensation of KH550 and Michael addition reaction between oxidized tannin a... | 208 |
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