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{ "abstract": "Bacteria use chemical molecules called autoinducers as votes to poll their numerical strength in a colony. This polling mechanism, commonly referred to as quorum sensing, enables bacteria to build a social network and provide a collective response for fighting off common threats. In Gram-negative bacte...
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{ "abstract": "Sericin removal from the core fibroin protein of silkworm silk is a critical first step in the use of silk for biomaterial-related applications, but degumming can affect silk biomaterial properties, including molecular weight, viscosity, diffusivity and degradation behavior. Increasing the degumming ti...
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{ "abstract": "Biofilm bacteria have developed escape strategies to avoid stresses associated with biofilm growth, respond to changing environmental conditions, and disseminate to new locations. An ever-expanding body of research suggests that cellular release from biofilms is distinct from a simple reversal of attac...
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PMC11252921
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{ "abstract": "Significance Nanofluidics has recently revolutionized the traditional solid-state neuromorphic emulations, yet a realization of a robust nanofluidic spiking device remains a challenge. Here, we report a nanofluidic spiking synapse based on a poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate membr...
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PMC8347837
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{ "abstract": "In recent work, the thermoreversible Diels–Alder reaction between furan and maleimide functional groups has been studied extensively in the context of self-healing elastomers and thermosets. To elaborate the influence of the stoichiometric ratio between the maleimide and furan reactive groups on the th...
2,925
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PMC9188022
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{ "abstract": "Electronic skin (e-skin), a new generation of flexible electronics, has drawn interest in soft robotics, artificial intelligence, and biomedical devices. However, most existing e-skins involve complex preparation procedures and are characterized by single-sensing capability and insufficient scalability...
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PMC4176505
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{ "abstract": "Background The rapid determination of the release of structural sugars from biomass feedstocks is an important enabling technology for the development of cellulosic biofuels. An assay that is used to determine sugar release for large numbers of samples must be robust, rapid, and easy to perform, and mu...
7,517
34335645
PMC8320662
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Most plants living in tropical acid soils depend on the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis for mobilizing low-accessible phosphorus (P), due to its strong bonding by iron (Fe) oxides. The roots release low-molecular-weight organic acids (LMWOAs) as a mechanism to increase soil P availability by liga...
5,711
38005773
PMC10674991
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In modern energy, various technologies for absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere are being considered, including photosynthetic microalgae. An important task is to obtain maximum productivity at high concentrations of CO 2 in gas–air mixtures. In this regard, the aim of the investigation is to ...
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35904348
PMC9413408
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Natural, high-performance fibers generally have hierarchically\norganized nanosized building blocks. Inspired by this, whey protein\nnanofibrils (PNFs) are assembled into microfibers, using flow-focusing.\nBy adding genipin as a nontoxic cross-linker to the PNF suspension\nbefore spinning, significantl...
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PMC11789028
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{ "abstract": "Significance Neocortical circuits are characterized by complex oscillatory dynamics. Whether these oscillations serve computations or are an epiphenomenon is still debated. To answer this question, we designed a computational model of a recurrent network that allows control of oscillatory dynamics (har...
5,066
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PMC5468245
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Lipid bodies (LBs) in the coral gastrodermal tissues are key organelles in the regulation of endosymbiosis and exhibit a diel rhythmicity. Using the scleractinian Euphyllia glabrescens collected across the diel cycle, we observed temporally dynamic lipid profiles in three cellular compartments: host ...
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PMC11930379
pmc
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Soil ecosystems host diverse microbial communities, which are influenced by various environmental factors, soil properties, vegetation characteristics, and anthropogenic activities, such as livestock grazing. Grazing serves as a critical management practice in the alpine grasslands of the Qing...
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{ "abstract": "Bacteria frequently cooperate by sharing secreted metabolites such as enzymes and siderophores. The expression of such 'public good' traits can be interdependent, and studies on laboratory systems have shown that trait linkage affects eco-evolutionary dynamics within bacterial communities. Here, we exa...
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{ "abstract": "Production of propionic acid by fermentation of propionibacteria has gained increasing attention in the past few years. However, biomanufacturing of propionic acid cannot compete with the current oxo-petrochemical synthesis process due to its well-established infrastructure, low oil prices and the high...
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PMC8872734
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{ "abstract": "Significance The enormous complexity of metabolic pathways, in both their regulation and propensity for metabolite cross-talk, represents a major obstacle for metabolic engineering. Self-assembling, catalytically programmable and genetically transferable bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) offer solutio...
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PMC5779721
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The growth characteristics and underlying metabolism of microbial production hosts are critical to the productivity of metabolically engineered pathways. Production in parallel with growth often leads to biomass/bio-product competition for carbon. The growth arrest phenotype associated with the Saccha...
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PMC8010324
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Advances in sequencing technology have led to the increased availability of genomes and metagenomes, which has greatly facilitated microbial pan-genome and metagenome analysis in the community. In line with this trend, studies on microbial genomes and phenotypes have gradually shifted from individuals ...
3,773
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PMC4381525
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Accurate evaluation of microbial communities is essential for understanding global biogeochemical processes and can guide bioremediation and medical treatments. Metagenomics is most commonly used to analyze microbial diversity and metabolic potential, but assemblies of the short reads generated by curr...
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PMC5381106
pmc
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{ "abstract": "To understand the post-transcriptional molecular mechanisms attributing to oleaginousness in microalgae challenged with nitrogen starvation (N-starvation), the longitudinal proteome dynamics of Chlorella sp. FC2 IITG was investigated using multipronged quantitative proteomics and multiple reaction mo...
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PMC1915594
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{ "abstract": "This study provides data on the diversities of bacterial and archaeal communities in an active methane seep at the Kazan mud volcano in the deep Eastern Mediterranean sea. Layers of varying depths in the Kazan sediments were investigated in terms of (1) chemical parameters and (2) DNA-based microbial p...
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PMC7312437
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Wake‐up circuits in smart microsystems make huge contributions to energy conservation of electronic networks in unmanned areas, which still require higher pressure‐triggering sensitivity and lower power consumption. In this work, a bionic triboelectric nanogenerator (bTENG) is developed to ser...
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PMC4221787
pmc
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{ "abstract": "As an important method for building blocks synthesis, whole cell biocatalysis is hindered by some shortcomings such as unpredictability of reactions, utilization of opportunistic pathogen, and side reactions. Due to its biological and extensively studied genetic background, Pseudomonas putida KT2440 ...
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PMC9928405
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The lack of freshwater\nhas been threatening many people who are\nliving in Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania, while the discovery\nof freshwater harvesting technology is considered a promising solution.\nRecent advances in structured surface materials, metal–organic\nframeworks, hygroscopic inorgan...
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PMC8317133
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Previous work demonstrated that microbial Fe(III)-reduction contributes to void formation, and potentially cave formation within Fe(III)-rich rocks, such as banded iron formation (BIF), iron ore and canga (a surficial duricrust), based on field observations and static batch cultures. Microbiological Fe...
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PMC5940957
pmc
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The spore-forming, thermophilic, and obligate anaerobic bacterium Moorella stamsii was isolated from digester sludge. Apart from its ability to use carbon monoxide for growth, M. stamsii harbors several enzymes for the use of different sugars. The draft genome has a size of 3,329 Mb and co...
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PMC4901517
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{ "abstract": "Background The production and employment of cellulases still represents an economic bottleneck in the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels and other biocommodities. This process could be simplified by displaying the necessary enzymes on a microbial cell surface. Such an approach, however, ...
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PMC5767561
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Recent studies have revealed that caryophyllene and its stereoisomers not only exhibit multiple biological activities but also have desired properties as renewable candidates for ground transportation and jet fuel applications. This study presents the first significant production of caryophyllene and c...
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PMC5711802
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Web spiders synthesize silk fibres, nature’s toughest biomaterial, through the controlled assembly of fibroin proteins, so-called spidroins. The highly conserved spidroin N-terminal domain (NTD) is a pH-driven self-assembly device that connects spidroins to super-molecules in fibres. The degree to whic...
3,299
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PMC10500273
pmc
5,861
{ "abstract": "Significance Microbial communities are found throughout the biosphere, from human guts to glaciers, from soil to activated sludge. Understanding the statistical properties of such diverse communities can pave the way to elucidate the common mechanisms behind their patterns of variability, stability, an...
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PMC6189367
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, 25 times more efficient at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. Ruminant methane emissions contribute almost 30% to anthropogenic sources of global atmospheric methane levels and a reduction in methane emissions would significantly contribute to slowing global temperat...
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PMC4079543
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{ "abstract": "Summary Ancient and diverse antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have previously been identified from soil 1 – 3 , including genes identical to those in human pathogens 4 . Despite the apparent overlap between soil and clinical resistomes 4 – 6 , factors influencing ARG composition in soil and their move...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The possibility of structuring material at the nanoscale is essential to control light–matter interactions and therefore fabricate next‐generation paints and coatings. In this context, nature can serve not only as a source of inspiration for the design of such novel optical structures, but als...
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{ "abstract": "The chemistry of mussel adhesion has commanded the focus of much recent research activity on wet adhesion. By comparison, the equally critical adhesive processing by marine organisms has been little examined. Using a mussel-inspired coacervate formed by mixing a recombinant mussel adhesive protein (fp-...
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PMC7184735
pmc
5,869
{ "abstract": "How complex, multi-component macromolecular machines evolved remains poorly understood. Here we reveal the evolutionary origins of the chemosensory machinery that controls flagellar motility in Escherichia coli . We first identify ancestral forms still present in Vibrio cholerae , Pseudomonas aerugi...
2,102
39937908
PMC11817925
pmc
5,870
{ "abstract": "Color spiking encoding and opponent preprocessing are critical for energy-efficient object perception in the human visual system. Emulating the retina and brain’s integration of spatial and chromatic spiking signals holds promise for enhancing the efficiency of vision sensors. Here, we introduce an art...
1,504
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PMC10203304
pmc
5,871
{ "abstract": "Photogranules are spherical aggregates formed of complex phototrophic ecosystems with potential for “aeration-free” wastewater treatment. Photogranules from a sequencing batch reactor were investigated by fluorescence microscopy, 16S/18S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, microsensors, and stable- and radi...
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{ "abstract": "Scaffolded DNA origami has recently emerged as a versatile, programmable method to fold DNA into arbitrarily shaped nanostructures that are spatially addressable, with sub-10-nm resolution. Toward functional DNA nanotechnology, one of the key challenges is to integrate the bottom-up self-assembly of DN...
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{ "abstract": "We demonstrate the ability to engineer complex shapes that twist and curve at the nanoscale from DNA. Through programmable self-assembly, strands of DNA are directed to form a custom-shaped bundle of tightly cross-linked double helices, arrayed in parallel to their helical axes. Targeted insertions and...
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{ "abstract": "Successful phytoremediation of acidic metal-contaminated mine tailings requires amendments to condition tailings properties prior to plant establishment. This conditioning process is complex and includes multiple changes in tailings bio-physico-chemical properties. The objective of this project is to i...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract How does metabolism influence social behavior? This fundamental question at the interface of molecular biology and social evolution is hard to address with experiments in animals, and therefore, we turned to a simple microbial system: swarming in the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa . Using g...
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PMC10634959
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{ "abstract": "Archaea belonging to the DPANN superphylum have been found within an expanding number of environments and perform a variety of biogeochemical roles, including contributing to carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen cycling. Generally characterized by ultrasmall cell sizes and reduced genomes, DPANN archaea may fo...
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PMC5377364
pmc
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{ "abstract": "We introduce multi-gradients including Laplace pressure gradient, wettable gradient and wettable different gradient on a high adhesion surface via special wedge-pattern and improved anodic oxidation method. As a result of the cooperative effect mentioned above, controlled directional motion of a drople...
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{ "abstract": "Plant-plant interactions are driven by environmental conditions, evolutionary relationships (ER) and the functional traits of the plants involved. However, studies addressing the relative importance of these drivers are rare, but crucial to improve our predictions of the effects of plant-plant interact...
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PMC9577173
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Biofilm plays important roles in the life cycle of Bacillus species, such as promoting host and object surface colonization and resisting heavy metal stress. This study utilized transcriptomics to evaluate the impacts of cadmium on the components, morphology, and function of biofilms of Bacillus sub...
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39020132
PMC11458647
pmc
5,886
{ "abstract": "Current evidence suggests that some form of cellular organization arose well before the time of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Standard phylogenetic analyses have shown that several protein families associated with membrane translocation, membrane transport, and membrane bioenergetics were ...
2,552
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PMC7762795
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{ "abstract": "Phototrophic organisms are key components of many natural environments. There exist two main phototrophic groups: species that collect light energy using various kinds of (bacterio)chlorophylls and species that utilize rhodopsins.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION The ability to use light energy is an ...
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PMC10551918
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Synthetic hydrogels\nstruggle to match the high strength, toughness,\nand recoverability of biological tissues under periodic mechanical\nloading. Although the hydrophobic polymer chain of polystyrene (PS)\nmay initially collapse into a nanosphere upon contact with water,\nit has the ability to be elon...
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PMC8350355
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Interest and controversy surrounding the evolutionary origins of extremely halophilic Archaea has increased in recent years, due to the discovery and characterization of the Nanohaloarchaea and the Methanonatronarchaeia. Initial attempts in explaining the evolutionary placement of the two new ...
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PMC4600277
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{ "abstract": "“Geoglobus ahangari” strain 234 T is an obligate Fe(III)-reducing member of the Archaeoglobales , within the archaeal phylum Euryarchaeota , isolated from the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal system. It grows optimally at 88 °C by coupling the reduction of Fe(III) oxides to the oxidation of a wide range ...
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{ "abstract": "A new hybrid hydrogel based on poly[N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide] grafted with a beta-sheet peptide, Beta11, was designed. Circular dichroism spectroscopy indicated that the folding ability of beta-sheet peptide was retained in the hybrid system, whereas the sensitivity of the peptide toward tempe...
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{ "abstract": "The byssus of marine mussels has attracted attention as a paradigm of strong and versatile underwater adhesion. As the first of the 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (Dopa)-containing byssal precursors to be purified, Mytilus edulis foot protein-1 (mefp-1) has been much investigated with respect to its molecu...
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PMC9306079
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Obtaining efficient autotrophic ammonia removal ( aka partial nitritation-anammox, or PNA) requires a balanced microbiome with abundant aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria and scarce nitrite oxidizing bacteria. Here, we analyzed the microbiome of an efficient PNA process that was obtained...
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PMC9511690
pmc
5,898
{ "abstract": "Brain-inspired neuromorphic computing has become one of the critical technologies to overcome the bottleneck of von Neumann architecture. It is a vital step to construct a brain-like neuromorphic computing system at the hardware level by utilizing artificial synaptic devices. Compared with electronic s...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Presently described is a sliding‐kernel computation‐in‐memory (SKCIM) architecture conceptually involving two overlapping layers of functional arrays, one containing memory elements and artificial synapses for neuromorphic computation, the other is used for storing and sliding convolutional ke...
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PMC6308720
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{ "abstract": "The management and proper use of the Urban Public Transport Systems (UPTS) constitutes a critical field that has not been investigated in accordance to its relevance and urgent idiosyncrasy within the Smart Cities realm. Swarm Intelligence is a very promising paradigm to deal with such complex and dyna...
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PMC11507797
pmc
5,902
{ "abstract": "Population cycles are prevalent in ecosystems and play key roles in determining their functions 1 , 2 . While multiple mechanisms have been theoretically shown to generate population cycles 3 – 6 , there are limited examples of mutualisms driving self-sustained oscillations. Using an engineered microbi...
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PMC2877717
pmc
5,903
{ "abstract": "Background Coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity, yet processes of diversification in these ecosystems are poorly understood. The environmental heterogeneity of coral reef environments could be an important contributor to diversification, however, evidence supporting ecological speciation in corals ...
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PMC6681937
pmc
5,904
{ "abstract": "Allocation of goods is a key feature in defining the connection between the individual and the collective scale in any society. Both the process by which goods are to be distributed, and the resulting allocation to the members of the society may affect the success of the population as a whole. One of t...
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32785287
PMC7423320
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The microbial oxidation of metal sulfides plays a major role in the formation of acid rock drainage (ARD). We aimed to broadly characterize the ARD at Ely Brook, which drains the Ely Copper Mine Superfund site in Vermont, USA, using metagenomics and metatranscriptomics to assess the metabolic potential...
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PMC5876133
pmc
5,906
{ "abstract": "Bacteria in polymicrobial habitats contend with a persistent barrage of competitors, often under rapidly changing environmental conditions 1 . The direct antagonism of competitor cells is thus an important bacterial survival strategy 2 . Towards this end, many bacterial species employ an arsenal of ant...
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36770342
PMC9919625
pmc
5,908
{ "abstract": "Due to its several economic and ecological consequences, biofouling is a widely recognized concern in the marine sector. The search for non-biocide-release antifouling coatings has been on the rise, with carbon-nanocoated surfaces showing promising activity. This work aimed to study the impact of prist...
4,959
25575307
PMC4478705
pmc
5,909
{ "abstract": "Stratified sulfurous lakes are appropriate environments for studying the links between composition and functionality in microbial communities and are potentially modern analogs of anoxic conditions prevailing in the ancient ocean. We explored these aspects in the Lake Banyoles karstic area (NE Spain) t...
4,458
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PMC11808451
pmc
5,910
{ "abstract": "Abstract Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis, the nutritional partnership between AM fungi and most plant species, is globally ubiquitous and of great ecological and agricultural importance. Studying the processes of AM symbiosis is confounded by its highly spatiotemporally dynamic nature. While micr...
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{ "abstract": "Pathway refactoring serves as an invaluable synthetic biology tool for natural product discovery, characterization, and engineering. However, the complicated and laborious molecular biology techniques largely hinder its application in natural product research, especially in a high-throughput manner. He...
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PMC9299808
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary Urbanised environments have been identified as hotspots of anthropogenic methane emissions. Especially urban aquatic ecosystems are increasingly recognised as important sources of methane. However, the microbiology behind these emissions remains unexplored. Here, we applied microcosm incubation...
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36605799
PMC9765428
pmc
5,915
{ "abstract": "Low efficiency of extracellular electron transfer (EET) is a major bottleneck in developing high-performance microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Herein, we construct Shewanella oneidensis MR-1@Au for the bioanode of MFCs. Through performance recovery experiments of mutants, we proved that abundant Au nanopa...
6,175
27014323
PMC4791364
pmc
5,917
{ "abstract": "Global mechanization, urbanization, and various natural processes have led to the increased release of toxic compounds into the biosphere. These hazardous toxic pollutants include a variety of organic and inorganic compounds, which pose a serious threat to the ecosystem. The contamination of soil and w...
2,485
37437031
PMC10337918
pmc
5,918
{ "abstract": "Manipulating the microbiome of cropland soils has the potential to accelerate soil carbon sequestration, but strategies to do so need to be carefully vetted. Here, we highlight the general steps required to develop, implement, and validate such microbe-based strategies." }
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{ "abstract": "In multicellular organisms, metabolism is compartmentalized at many levels, including tissues and organs, different cell types, and subcellular compartments. Compartmentalization creates a coordinated homeostatic system where each compartment contributes to the production of energy and biomolecules the...
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PMC11257099
pmc
5,920
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Bacterial endosymbionts of eukaryotic hosts typically experience massive genome reduction, but the underlying evolutionary processes are often obscured by the lack of free-living relatives. Endomicrobia, a family-level lineage of host-associated bacteria in the phylum Elusimicrobiota that co...
7,349
36905370
PMC10128138
pmc
5,921
{ "abstract": "Abstract \n Corynebacterium glutamicum experiences a transient iron limitation during growth in minimal medium, which can be compensated by the external supplementation of protocatechuic acid (PCA). Although C. glutamicum is genetically equipped to form PCA from the intermediate 3‐dehydroshikimate c...
4,103
29046540
PMC5649373
pmc
5,923
{ "abstract": "Horizontal gene transfer mediated by broad-host-range plasmids is an important mechanism of antibiotic resistance spread. While not all bacteria maintain plasmids equally well, plasmid persistence can improve over time, yet no general evolutionary mechanisms have emerged. Our goal was to identify these...
2,268
36619370
PMC9813533
pmc
5,925
{ "abstract": "Hydrogen is generally considered as an ideal non-polluting future energy carrier because it releases energy and water as a byproduct on combustion. Besides, hydrogen possesses the highest energy density on mass basis compared to any other fuel. However, hydrogen production in a sustainable and environm...
630
25392084
PMC4229684
pmc
5,926
{ "abstract": "Driven by its importance in nature and technology, droplet impact on solid surfaces has been studied for decades. To date, research on control of droplet impact outcome has focused on optimizing pre-impact parameters, e.g. , droplet size and velocity. Here we follow a different, post-impact , surface...
4,475
23457582
PMC3574064
pmc
5,927
{ "abstract": "The animal gastrointestinal tract contains a complex community of microbes, whose composition ultimately reflects the co-evolution of microorganisms with their animal host. An analysis of 78,619 pyrosequencing reads generated from pygmy loris fecal DNA extracts was performed to help better understand t...
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PMC3366867
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5,929
{ "abstract": "Background Direct conversion of solar energy and carbon dioxide to drop in fuel molecules in a single biological system can be achieved from fatty acid-based biofuels such as fatty alcohols and alkanes. These molecules have similar properties to fossil fuels but can be produced by photosynthetic cyanob...
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36072330
PMC9441947
pmc
5,930
{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis in soil may be directly or indirectly involved in the reproductive process of sexually reproducing plants (seed plants), and affect their reproductive fitness. However, it is not clear how underground AM symbiosis affects plant reproductive function. Here, we revie...
3,011
30038374
PMC6056493
pmc
5,931
{ "abstract": "Geothermal springs are model ecosystems to investigate microbial biogeography as they represent discrete, relatively homogenous habitats, are distributed across multiple geographical scales, span broad geochemical gradients, and have reduced metazoan interactions. Here, we report the largest known cons...
9,552
38498725
PMC10998617
pmc
5,933
{ "abstract": "Significance Many natural functional materials comprise hierarchical micro- and nanostructures that are integral parts of biological surfaces. Distinctively, leafhoppers excrete brochosomes and actively use them as deployable materials on their body surfaces. Brochosomes are hollow, buckyball-shaped na...
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{ "abstract": "The marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri uses a biofilm to promote colonization of its eukaryotic host Euprymna scolopes. This biofilm depends on the symbiosis polysaccharide (syp) locus, which is transcriptionally regulated by the RscS-SypG two-component regulatory system. An additional response regulator...
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PMC11469123
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5,936
{ "abstract": "Abstract Despite important breakthroughs in bottom‐up synthetic biology, a major challenge still remains the construction of free‐standing, macroscopic, and robust materials from protocell building blocks that are stable in water and capable of emergent behaviors. Herein, a new floating mold technique ...
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{ "abstract": "Actin networks are adaptive materials enabling dynamic and static functions of living cells. A central element for tuning their underlying structural and mechanical properties is the ability to reversibly connect, i.e., transiently crosslink, filaments within the networks. Natural crosslinkers, however...
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PMC8275744
pmc
5,938
{ "abstract": "Process engineering of biotechnological productions can benefit greatly from comprehensive analysis of microbial physiology and metabolism. Ralstonia eutropha (syn. Cupriavidus necator ) is one of the best studied organisms for the synthesis of biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA). A comprehensi...
3,021
33184268
PMC7665198
pmc
5,940
{ "abstract": "Previous studies have shown that copolymer compositions can significantly impact self-healing properties. This was accomplished by enhancement of van der Waals (vdW) forces which facilitate self-healing in relatively narrow copolymer compositional range. In this work we report the acceleration of self-...
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{ "abstract": "Mimicking nature's approach in creating devices with similar functional complexity is one of the ultimate goals of scientists and engineers. The remarkable elegance of these naturally evolved structures originates from bottom-up self-assembly processes. The seamless integration of top-down fabrication ...
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PMC10114076
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Fatty acids are important molecules in bioenergetics and also in industry. The phylum cyanobacteria consists of a group of prokaryotes that typically carry out oxygenic photosynthesis with water as an electron donor and use carbon dioxide as a carbon source to generate a range of biomolecules,...
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PMC5604501
pmc
5,947
{ "abstract": "Background Recently, important discoveries regarding the archaeon that functioned as the “host” in the merger with a bacterium that led to the eukaryotes, its “complex” nature, and its phylogenetic relationship to eukaryotes, have been reported. Based on these new insights proposals have been put forwa...
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PMC8289248
pmc
5,948
{ "abstract": "Polymer composites\nhave attracted increasing interest as thermal\nmanagement materials for use in devices owing to their ease of processing\nand potential lower costs. However, most polymer composites have only\nmodest thermal conductivities, even at high concentrations of additives,\nresulting in hig...
4,117
21952217
PMC3195254
pmc
5,950
{ "abstract": "Rising petroleum costs, trade imbalances and environmental concerns have stimulated efforts to advance the microbial production of fuels from lignocellulosic biomass. Here we identify a novel biosynthetic alternative to D2 diesel fuel, bisabolane, and engineer microbial platforms for the production of ...
1,605
28322307
PMC5359605
pmc
5,951
{ "abstract": "Structure-dependent colour is caused by the interaction of light with photonic crystal structures rather than pigments. The elytra of longhorn beetles Tmesisternus isabellae appear to be iridescent green in a dry state and turn to red when exposed to humidity. Based on the hygroscopic colouration of ...
3,998
32318116
PMC7158082
pmc
5,952
{ "abstract": "Industrial crops are grown to produce goods for manufacturing. Rather than food and feed, they supply raw materials for making biofuels, pharmaceuticals, and specialty chemicals, as well as feedstocks for fabricating fiber, biopolymer, and construction materials. Therefore, such crops offer the potenti...
1,114
21963157
null
s2
5,953
{ "abstract": "Resilin is an elastomeric protein found in specialized regions of the cuticle of most insects, providing outstanding material properties including high resilience and fatigue lifetime for insect flight and jumping needs. Two exons (1 and 3) from the resilin gene in Drosophila melanogaster were cloned a...
402
35198904
PMC8851274
pmc
5,954
{ "abstract": "Summary Extracellular electron transfer (EET) from microorganisms to inorganic electrodes is a unique ability of electrochemically active bacteria. Despite rigorous genetic and biochemical screening of the c -type cytochromes that make up the EET network, the individual electron transfer steps over th...
8,023
23996084
null
s2
5,955
{ "abstract": "Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy has received significant attention recently as a method to measure electrochemical parameters of Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms. Here, we use electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to demonstrate the effect of mass transfer processes on electron transfer by G. ...
399
37050822
PMC10098871
pmc
5,957
{ "abstract": "Robotic manipulation challenges, such as grasping and object manipulation, have been tackled successfully with the help of deep reinforcement learning systems. We give an overview of the recent advances in deep reinforcement learning algorithms for robotic manipulation tasks in this review. We begin by...
2,659
35540661
PMC9076062
pmc
5,958
{ "abstract": "The oxidation of a carbon anode has been reported to enhance electricity recovery in a microbial fuel cell (MFC). This study investigates the applicability of electrochemically oxidized graphite felt (EOGF) as the anode for the recovery of electricity from sewage wastewater when polarized at 0.2 V duri...
4,621
28789484
PMC5545993
pmc
5,959
{ "abstract": "Anaerobic fungi reside in the gut of herbivore and synergize with associated methanogenic archaea to decompose ingested plant biomass. Despite their potential for use in bioconversion industry, only a few natural fungus–methanogen co-cultures have been isolated and characterized. In this study we ident...
4,615
33865676
null
s2
5,962
{ "abstract": "Interactions between microorganisms in multispecies communities are thought to have substantial consequences for the community. Identifying the molecules and genetic pathways that contribute to such interplay is thus crucial to understand as well as modulate community dynamics. Here I focus on recent s...
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