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{ "abstract": "Abstract The rapid rise of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), which are emerging energy conversion devices in advanced electronics and wearable sensing systems, has elevated the interest in high‐performance and multifunctional triboelectric materials. Among them, cellulosic materials, affording high...
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PMC6853845
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{ "abstract": "Microbes in various aquatic ecosystems play a key role in global energy fluxes and biogeochemical processes. However, the detailed patterns on the functional structure and the metabolic potential of microbial communities in freshwater lakes with different trophic status remain to be understood. We empl...
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PMC2975365
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{ "abstract": "A plasmid-based expression system wherein mekB was fused to a constitutive Methanosarcina acetivorans promoter was used to express MekB, a broad-specificity esterase from Pseudomonas veronii , in M. acetivorans . The engineered strain had 80-fold greater esterase activity than wild-type M. aceti...
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PMC10748501
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have demonstrated the potential to enhance the saline-alkali tolerance in plants. Nevertheless, the extent to which AMF can ameliorate the tolerance of salt-sensitive plants to alkaline conditions necessitates further investigation. The current study is primarily cent...
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{ "abstract": "Assimilatory and dissimilatory utilisation of autotroph biomass by heterotrophs is a fundamental mechanism for the transfer of nutrients and energy across trophic levels. Metagenome data from a tractable, thermoacidophilic microbial community in Yellowstone National Park was used to build an in silico ...
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PMC3835567
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Methanogenic archaea produce methane as a metabolic product under anoxic conditions and they play a crucial role in the global methane cycle. In this study molecular diversity of methanogenic archaea in the hyporheic sediment of the lowland stream Sitka (Olomouc, Czech Republic) was analyzed by PCR amp...
5,578
36791061
PMC9931117
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Critical phenomena are wildly observed in living systems. If the system is at criticality, it can quickly transfer information and achieve optimal response to external stimuli. Especially, animal collective behavior has numerous critical properties, which are related to other research regions, such as ...
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30641952
PMC6356539
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In this study, a novel superhydrophobic nano-aluminum/iron (III) oxide composite has been prepared by a facile one-step process of electrophoretic deposition, with wide potential applications. The optimal suspension included ethanol, acetyl-acetone, and the additives of fluorotriphenylsilane and perflu...
3,087
24904294
PMC4033042
pmc
6,322
{ "abstract": "We present a preliminary study of a thalamo-cortico-thalamic (TCT) implementation on SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network architecture), a brain inspired hardware platform designed to incorporate the inherent biological properties of parallelism, fault tolerance and energy efficiency. These attributes mak...
5,712
39046963
PMC11268599
pmc
6,327
{ "abstract": "The purple nonsulfur bacteria, Rhodospirillum rubrum , is recognized as a potential strain for PHAs bioindustrial processes since they can assimilate a broad range of carbon sources, such as syngas, to allow reduction of the production costs. In this study, we comparatively analyzed the biomass and PH...
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26678754
PMC4683463
pmc
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{ "abstract": "A fluorinated silyl functionalized zirconia was synthesized by the sol-gel method to fabricate an extremely durable superhydrophobic coating on cotton fabrics by simple immersion technique. The fabric surfaces firmly attached with the coating material through covalent bonding, possessed superhydrophobi...
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33522615
PMC8048686
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The phenomenon that organisms can distinguish genetically related individuals from strangers (i.e., kin recognition) and exhibit more cooperative behaviours towards their relatives (i.e., positive kin discrimination) has been documented in a wide variety of organisms. However, its occurrence i...
2,841
37741957
PMC10579274
pmc
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{ "abstract": "High-temperature geothermal springs host simplified microbial communities; however, the activities of individual microorganisms and their roles in the carbon cycle in nature are not well understood. Here, quantitative stable isotope probing (qSIP) was used to track the assimilation of 13 C-acetate and...
5,288
22624091
PMC3354671
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Human impact on biodiversity usually is measured by reduction in species abundance or richness. Just as important, but much more difficult to discern, is the anthropogenic elimination of ecological interactions. Here we report on the persistence of a long ecological interaction chain linking diverse fo...
1,842
25505459
PMC4243572
pmc
6,338
{ "abstract": "In many ecosystems, global changes are likely to profoundly affect microorganisms. In Southern California, changes in precipitation and nitrogen deposition may influence the composition and functional potential of microbial communities and their resulting ability to degrade plant material. To test whet...
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PMC4702813
pmc
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{ "abstract": "MetaNetX is a repository of genome-scale metabolic networks (GSMNs) and biochemical pathways from a number of major resources imported into a common namespace of chemical compounds, reactions, cellular compartments—namely MNXref—and proteins. The MetaNetX.org website ( http://www.metanetx.org/ ) pr...
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PMC10423689
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Highlights • Report of a high throughput screening (HTP) method to identify efficient lignin degrading microbes from large number of biomasses. • HTP screening process of large number of natural biomasses based on liquid culture and specific enzyme activities. • Inclusion of a quantitative 96-well plat...
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{ "abstract": "Insects, the most diverse group of macroorganisms with 900,000 known species, have been a rich playground for the evolution of symbiotic associations. Symbionts of this enormous animal group include a range of microbial partners. Insects are prone to establishing relationships with intracellular bacter...
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22983037
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{ "abstract": "Insects, the most diverse group of macroorganisms with 900,000 known species, have been a rich playground for the evolution of symbiotic associations. Symbionts of this enormous animal group include a range of microbial partners. Insects are prone to establishing relationships with intracellular bacter...
437
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PMC10892470
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae, or small animals on wet surfaces that have a mechanical function causes biofouling, which can result in structural or other functional deficiencies. The maritime shipping industry must constantly manage biofouling to optimize operational performance, w...
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{ "abstract": "Engineering industrial microbes has been hampered by incomplete knowledge of cell biology. Thus an iterative engineering cycle of modeling, implementation, and analysis has been used to increase knowledge of the underlying biology while achieving engineering goals. Recent advances in Systems Biology te...
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PMC4632617
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Cold-water corals, such as Lophelia pertusa , are key habitat-forming organisms found throughout the world's oceans to 3000 m deep. The complex three-dimensional framework made by these vulnerable marine ecosystems support high biodiversity and commercially important species. Given their importance, a...
3,661
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PMC11186829
pmc
6,350
{ "abstract": "One of the focal points in the field of intelligent transportation is the intelligent control of traffic signals (TS), aimed at enhancing the efficiency of urban road networks through specific algorithms. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms have become mainstream, yet they suffer from ineffici...
2,730
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PMC8032392
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Horizontal gene transfer is a major force in bacterial evolution. Mobile genetic elements are responsible for much of horizontal gene transfer and also carry beneficial cargo genes. Uncovering strategies used by mobile genetic elements to benefit host cells is crucial for understanding their stability ...
4,141
35559312
PMC9091625
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In this study, an anaerobic baffled reactor (ABR) coupled with a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) was set up to treat carbohydrate-containing wastewater at 55 ± 1 °C. The MEC was employed to accelerate the degradation of volatile fatty acids (VFAs). The removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and prod...
7,473
20569124
PMC3014662
pmc
6,358
{ "abstract": "We investigated whether the physical castes of the dimorphic ant Pheidole pallidula (Nylander) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), are involved in determining within-nest activities and how their social investment in everyday tasks is influenced by large changes in the colony's caste ratio. Although the large...
4,078
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PMC5036821
pmc
6,361
{ "abstract": "The immune response by T cells usually discriminates self and non-self antigens, even though the negative selection of self-reactive T cells is imperfect and a certain fraction of T cells can respond to self-antigens. In this study, we construct a simple mathematical model of T cell populations to anal...
5,530
36229605
PMC9579051
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Photosystem I (PSI) enables photo-electron transfer and regulates photosynthesis in the bioenergetic membranes of cyanobacteria and chloroplasts. Being a multi-subunit complex, its macromolecular organization affects the dynamics of photosynthetic membranes. Here we reveal a chloroplast PSI from the gr...
325
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PMC10357540
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{ "abstract": "Anisotropic photonic hydrogels with alternatively stacked\npoly(dodecyl\nglyceryl itaconate) (PDGI) bilayers and polyacrylamide (PAAm) gel\nlayers are unique soft materials with various functions. It is known\nthat to form the lamellar phase of bilayers, a small amount of co-surfactant\nsodium dodecyl ...
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PMC5663086
pmc
6,365
{ "abstract": "Background 3-Hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) is an important platform chemical, serving as a precursor for a wide range of industrial applications such as the production of acrylic acid and 1,3-propanediol. Although Escherichia coli or Saccharomyces cerevisiae are the primary industrial microbes for t...
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{ "abstract": "Finding the shortest path in a graph has applications in a wide range of optimization problems. However, algorithmic methods scale with the size of the graph in terms of time and energy. We propose a method to solve the shortest-path problem using circuits of nanodevices called memristors and validate ...
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PMC9552755
pmc
6,369
{ "abstract": "Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have garnered considerable attention as an emerging energy harvesting technology. To improve the electrical properties of the triboelectric materials in TENGs, various micro- and nanomaterials with strong charge-trapping capabilities are introduced as filler materia...
5,177
25028427
PMC4161262
pmc
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Microbial communities typically contain many rare taxa that make up the majority of the observed membership, yet the contribution of this microbial “rare biosphere” to community dynamics is unclear. Using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of 3,237 samples from 42 time series of microbial communitie...
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33881981
PMC8289221
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6,372
{ "abstract": "Micro-organisms contribute to Earth’s mineral deposits through a process known as bacteria-induced mineral precipitation (BIMP). It is a complex phenomenon that can occur as a result of a variety of physiological activities that influence the supersaturation state and nucleation catalysis of mineral pr...
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{ "abstract": "Lignocellulosic biofuels and chemicals have great potential to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and mitigate air pollution by cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions. Chemical, thermal, and enzymatic processes are used to release the sugars from the lignocellulosic biomass for conversion to biofu...
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{ "abstract": "Lignocellulosic biofuels and chemicals have great potential to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and mitigate air pollution by cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions. Chemical, thermal, and enzymatic processes are used to release the sugars from the lignocellulosic biomass for conversion to biofu...
430
31969660
PMC6976594
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6,375
{ "abstract": "Coral reefs are vital for the marine ecosystem and their potential disappearance can have unequivocal consequences on our environment. Aside from pollution-related threats (changes in water temperature, plastics, and acidity), corals can be injured by diseases, predators, humans and other invasive spec...
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{ "abstract": "One promise of synthetic biology is to provide solutions for biomedical and industrial problems by rational design of added functionality in living systems. Microbes are at the forefront of this biological engineering endeavor due to their general ease of handling and their relevance in many potential ...
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PMC4442139
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Wetland restoration on peat islands previously drained for agriculture has potential to reverse land subsidence and sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide as peat accretes. However, the emission of methane could potentially offset the greenhouse gas benefits of captured carbon. As microbial comm...
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PMC10353996
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6,380
{ "abstract": "With climate projections questioning the future survival of stony corals and their dominance as tropical reef builders, it is critical to understand the adaptive capacity of corals to ongoing climate change. Biological mediation of the carbonate chemistry of the coral calcifying fluid is a fundamental ...
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PMC10803391
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The microbial production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) block copolymers has attracted research interests because they can be expected to exhibit excellent physical properties. Although post-polymerization conjugation and/or extension have been used for PHA block copolymer synthesis, the discov...
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PMC8645107
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{ "abstract": "Background As methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide in exacerbating the greenhouse effect, there is an increasing interest in the utilization of methanotrophic bacteria that can convert harmful methane into various value-added compounds. A recently isolated methanotroph, Methylomonas sp...
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PMC4838734
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Keeping in view, the challenges concerning agro-ecosystem and environment, the recent developments in biotechnology offers a more reliable approach to address the food security for future generations and also resolve the complex environmental problems. Several unique features of cyanobacteria such as o...
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25345760
PMC5381374
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The ability of coral reefs to engineer complex three-dimensional habitats is central to their success and the rich biodiversity they support. In tropical reefs, encrusting coralline algae bind together substrates and dead coral framework to make continuous reef structures, but beyond the photic zone, t...
1,494
36443458
PMC9712116
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities across multiple habitats on a planetary scale. Here we present a multi-omics analysis of a diverse set of 880 microbial comm...
1,954
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PMC4522039
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{ "abstract": "Alien species can severely disrupt the structure, function and stability of native communities. We evaluated the structure of pollination networks in the three main habitats and in the two seasons on the two most disturbed Galápagos Islands, and investigated how such structure is influenced by invasive...
5,714
36145739
PMC9501341
pmc
6,387
{ "abstract": "The nature of plant–fungi interaction at early stages of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) development is still a puzzling problem. To investigate the processes behind this interaction, we used the Medicago lupulina MlS-1 line that forms high-efficient AM symbiosis with Rhizophagus irregularis . AM fungus ...
5,702
36630500
PMC9833677
pmc
6,389
{ "abstract": "Evolution prediction is a long-standing goal in evolutionary biology, with potential impacts on strategic pathogen control, genome engineering, and synthetic biology. While laboratory evolution studies have shown the predictability of short-term and sequence-level evolution, that of long-term and syste...
2,425
27903820
PMC5264505
pmc
6,391
{ "abstract": "Biological systems exhibit complex behaviours that emerge at many different levels of organization. These span the regulation of gene expression within single cells to the use of quorum sensing to co-ordinate the action of entire bacterial colonies. Synthetic biology aims to make the engineering of bio...
1,992
32093403
PMC7076665
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{ "abstract": "Nitrogen is one of the essential plant nutrients and a major factor limiting crop productivity. To meet the requirements of sustainable agriculture, there is a need to maximize biological nitrogen fixation in different crop species. Legumes are able to establish root nodule symbiosis (RNS) with nitroge...
1,626
34180604
PMC8236291
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Natural isolates of the soil‐dwelling bacterium Bacillus \n subtilis form robust biofilms under laboratory conditions and colonize plant roots. B. subtilis biofilm gene expression displays phenotypic heterogeneity that is influenced by a family of Rap‐Phr regulatory systems. Most Rap‐Phr s...
5,528
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PMC7824734
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6,394
{ "abstract": "Growing evidence showed that efficient acquisition and use of nutrients by crops is controlled by root-associated microbiomes. Efficient management of this system is essential to improving crop yield, while reducing the environmental footprint of crop production. Both endophytic and rhizospheric microo...
8,092
28986532
PMC5630616
pmc
6,397
{ "abstract": "A pressing challenge for ecologists is predicting how human-driven environmental changes will affect the complex pattern of interactions among species in a community. Weighted networks are an important tool for studying changes in interspecific interactions because they record interaction frequencies i...
3,874
35736294
PMC9228305
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{ "abstract": "Developing an effective phycoremediation system, especially by utilizing microalgae, could provide a valuable approach in wastewater treatment for simultaneous nutrient removal and biomass generation, which would help control environmental pollution. This research aims to study the impact of low-voltag...
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{ "abstract": "Vibrio cholerae uses a quorum-sensing (QS) system composed of the autoinducer 3,5-dimethylpyrazin-2-ol (DPO) and receptor VqmA (VqmA" }
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PMC10591310
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Sulfate/sulfite-reducing microorganisms (SRM) are ubiquitous in nature, driving the global sulfur cycle. A hallmark of SRM is the dissimilatory sulfite reductase encoded by the genes dsrAB . Based on analysis of 950 mainly metagenome-derived dsrAB -carrying genomes, we redefine the global di...
3,883
38651372
PMC11036299
pmc
6,402
{ "abstract": "Microscopic, photosynthetic prokaryotes and eukaryotes, collectively referred to as microalgae, are widely studied to improve our understanding of key metabolic pathways (e.g., photosynthesis) and for the development of biotechnological applications. Omics technologies, which are now common tools in bi...
1,816
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PMC11785343
pmc
6,404
{ "abstract": "Herbivorous fishes play a crucial role in the conservation of coral reefs threatened by thermal stress ( e . g ., marine heatwaves and long-term ocean warming) by helping to maintain reefs in a coral-dominated state via the removal of algae. However, as thermally sensitive ectotherms, rising thermal st...
5,344
34611168
PMC8492667
pmc
6,406
{ "abstract": "Artificial microbial consortia seek to leverage division-of-labour to optimize function and possess immense potential for bioproduction. Co-culturing approaches, the preferred mode of generating a consortium, remain limited in their ability to give rise to stable consortia having finely tuned compositi...
3,499
39936903
PMC11915797
pmc
6,407
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Gelatinous zooplankton (GZ) represents an important component of marine food webs, capable of generating massive blooms with severe environmental impact. When these blooms collapse, considerable amounts of organic matter (GZ-OM) either sink to the seafloor or can be introduced into the ocean’s...
4,502
33565580
PMC8136488
pmc
6,408
{ "abstract": "Abstract Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is central to prokaryotic evolution. However, little is known about the “scale” of individual HGT events. In this work, we introduce the first computational framework to help answer the following fundamental question: How often does more than one gene get horizon...
4,437
37425797
PMC10327127
pmc
6,409
{ "abstract": "Most biomolecular systems are dependent on a complex interplay of forces. Modern force spectroscopy techniques provide means of interrogating these forces. These techniques, however, are not optimized for studies in constrained or crowded environments as they typically require micron-scale beads in the...
2,635
24074355
PMC3850637
pmc
6,410
{ "abstract": "Background While most resources in biofuels were directed towards implementing bioethanol programs, 1-propanol has recently received attention as a promising alternative biofuel. Nevertheless, no microorganism has been identified as a natural 1-propanol producer. In this study, we manipulated a novel m...
2,646
36770451
PMC9920594
pmc
6,412
{ "abstract": "Thermal contact resistance between the microprocessor chip and the heat sink has long been a focus of thermal management research in electronics. Thermally conductive gel, as a thermal interface material for efficient heat transfer between high-power components and heat sinks, can effectively reduce he...
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{ "abstract": "Efficient symbiotic colonization of the squid Euprymna scolopes by the bacterium Vibrio fischeri depends on bacterial biofilm formation on the surface of the squid's light organ. Subsequently, the bacteria disperse from the biofilm via an unknown mechanism and enter through pores to reach the interior ...
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PMC6562174
pmc
6,414
{ "abstract": "Photosynthetic microorganisms offer promising perspectives for the sustainable production of value-added compounds. Nevertheless, the cultivation of phototrophic organisms to high cell densities (HCDs) is hampered by limited reactor concepts. Co-cultivation of the photoautotrophic Synechocystis sp. P...
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{ "abstract": "Lignocellulosic biomass has been recognized as a promising feedstock for the fermentative production of biofuel. However, the pretreatment of lignocellulose generates a number of by-products, such as furfural, 5-hydroxylmethyl furfural (5-HMF), vanillin, vanillic acids and trans-p-coumaric acid (TPCA),...
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PMC9268176
pmc
6,417
{ "abstract": "The nanostructure composed of nanomaterials and subwavelength units offers flexible design freedom and outstanding advantages over conventional devices. In this paper, a multifunctional nanostructure with phase-change material (PCM) is proposed to achieve tunable infrared detection, radiation cooling a...
8,561
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PMC3533583
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6,418
{ "abstract": "Background Microalgae hold promise for yielding a biofuel feedstock that is sustainable, carbon-neutral, distributed, and only minimally disruptive for the production of food and feed by traditional agriculture. Amongst oleaginous eukaryotic algae, the B race of Botryococcus braunii is unique in that...
21,402
39732882
PMC11682423
pmc
6,420
{ "abstract": "The management and creation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is currently under great focus, with international organisations aiming to protect 30% of our oceans by 2030. The success of MPAs depends on a nuanced understanding of local ecological dynamics and threats, which can significantly influence e...
5,319
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PMC5576085
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Coral bleaching events are predicted to occur more frequently in the coming decades with global warming. The susceptibility of corals to bleaching during thermal stress episodes depends on many factors, including the magnitude of thermal stress and irradiance. The interactions among these two ...
5,224
34733822
PMC8558561
pmc
6,423
{ "abstract": "Currently, stretchable hydrogel has attracted great attention in the field of wearable flexible sensors. However, fabricating flexible hydrogel sensor simultaneously with superstretchability, high mechanical strength, remarkable self-healing ability, excellent anti-freezing and sensing features via a...
8,799
28924511
PMC5584815
pmc
6,425
{ "abstract": "Premise of the study: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are globally important root symbioses that enhance plant growth and nutrition and influence ecosystem structure and function. To better characterize levels of AMF diversity relevant to ecosystem function, deeper sequencing depth in environmental ...
2,155
36990448
PMC10091414
pmc
6,427
{ "abstract": "Spider dragline silk\nis a remarkably tough biomaterial and composed\nprimarily of spidroins MaSp1 and MaSp2. During fiber self-assembly,\nthe spidroin N-terminal domains (NTDs) undergo rapid dimerization\nin response to a pH gradient. However, obtaining a detailed understanding\nof this mechanism has ...
10,515
40313389
PMC12045287
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{ "abstract": "Background Bacterial laccases play a crucial role in the degradation of lignin and the turnover of soil organic matter. Their advantageous properties make them highly suitable for a wide range of industrial applications. However, the limited identification of these potential enzymes has impeded their f...
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27812175
PMC5094794
pmc
6,430
{ "abstract": "The fruit fly optimization algorithm (FOA) is a newly developed bio-inspired algorithm. The continuous variant version of FOA has been proven to be a powerful evolutionary approach to determining the optima of a numerical function on a continuous definition domain. In this study, a discrete FOA (DFOA) ...
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22068594
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{ "abstract": "An important feature of naturally self-assembled systems such as leaves and tissues is that they are curved and have embedded fluidic channels that enable the transport of nutrients to, or removal of waste from, specific three-dimensional regions. Here we report the self-assembly of photopatterned poly...
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32875115
PMC7438107
pmc
6,432
{ "abstract": "A multifunctional self-powered sensor is developed for pressure, temperature, and material sensing.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Humans can apperceive pressure and temperature and deduce their material properties while applying contact between objects and skin ( 1 ). The development in functional ...
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38135931
PMC10740855
pmc
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{ "abstract": "This case study assesses the valorization of industrial wastewater streams for bioenergy generation in an industrial munition facility. On-site pilot-scale demonstrations were performed to investigate the feasibility of algal growth in the target wastewater on a larger outdoor scale. An exploratory fie...
8,447
28890939
PMC5584659
pmc
6,434
{ "abstract": "Bacteria gain antibiotic resistance genes by horizontal acquisition of mobile genetic elements (MGE) from other lineages. Newly acquired MGEs are often poorly adapted causing intragenomic conflicts, resolved by compensatory adaptation of the chromosome, the MGE or reciprocal coadaptation. The footprint...
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PMC6562305
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Mutualistic interactions involve 2 species beneficially cooperating, but it is not clear how these interactions are maintained. In many mutualisms, one species interacts with multiple species, and since partners differ in terms of the commodities they trade, partner identity will directly infl...
4,520
24019922
PMC3760914
pmc
6,436
{ "abstract": "Extracellular electron transfer involving microbes is important as it closely reflects the ability of cells to communicate with the environment. However, there are few reports on electron transfer mechanisms of pure microalgae and a lack of any model alga to study the transfer processes. In the present...
3,631
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PMC8313290
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{ "abstract": "Summary The use of the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris ( Komagataella phaffi ) to produce heterologous proteins has been largely reported. However, investigations addressing the potential of this yeast to produce bulk chemicals are still scarce. In this study, we have studied the use of P. past...
7,125
36970394
PMC9996702
pmc
6,439
{ "abstract": "Using hydrogen oxidising bacteria to produce protein and other food and feed ingredients is a form of industrial biotechnology that is gaining traction. The technology fixes carbon dioxide into products without the light requirements of agriculture and biotech that rely on primary producers such as pla...
963
34909360
PMC8639198
pmc
6,441
{ "abstract": "Active matter refers to systems composed of elements that are self-propelled by the dissipation of energy, in which dynamical patterns emerge, as is the case of flocks of birds and schools of fish. Some researchers in active matter physics seek to identify unified descriptions of such collective motion...
1,735
27566647
PMC5001958
pmc
6,444
{ "abstract": "Co-fermentation of glucose, xylose and l -arabinose from lignocellulosic biomass by an oleaginous yeast is anticipated as a method for biodiesel production. However, most yeasts ferment glucose first before consuming pentoses, due to glucose repression. This preferential utilization results in delayed...
3,392
29373572
PMC5786289
pmc
6,445
{ "abstract": "Nematostella vectensis is a member of the phylum Cnidaria, a lineage that includes anemones, corals, hydras, and jellyfishes. This estuarine anemone is an excellent model system for investigating the evolution of stress tolerance because it is easy to collect in its natural habitat and to culture in t...
6,038
35292683
PMC8924167
pmc
6,446
{ "abstract": "Marine species not only suffer from direct effects of warming oceans but also indirectly via the emergence of novel species interactions. While metabolic adjustments can be crucial to improve resilience to warming, it is largely unknown if this improves performance relative to novel competitors. We aim...
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37273619
PMC10233667
pmc
6,449
{ "abstract": "Nacreous architecture has a good combination of toughness\nand modulus,\nwhich can be mimicked at the micron to submicron level using 3D printing\nto resolve the demand in numerous applications such as automobile,\naerospace, and protection equipment. The present study examines the\nfabrication of two ...
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33116516
PMC7585798
pmc
6,450
{ "abstract": "Background Artificial synaptic behaviors are necessary to investigate and implement since they are considered to be a new computing mechanism for the analysis of complex brain information. However, flexible and transparent artificial synapse devices based on thin-film transistors (TFTs) still need furt...
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28688575
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{ "abstract": "Cell-cell communication enables bacteria to coordinate their behavior through the production, recognition, and response to chemical signals produced by their microbial neighbors. An important example of coordinated behavior in bacteria is biofilm formation, where individual cells organize into highly c...
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{ "abstract": "Metabolic engineering offers the opportunity to produce a wide range of commodity chemicals that are currently derived from petroleum or other non-renewable resources. Microbial synthesis of fatty alcohols is an attractive process because it can control the distribution of chain lengths and utilize low...
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27148237
PMC4838625
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Nitrogen starvation is an efficient environmental pressure for increasing lipid accumulation in microalgae, but it could also significantly lower the biomass productivity, resulting in lower lipid productivity. In this study, green alga Chlorella sp. A2 was cultivated by using a minimal nitrogen supp...
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30349546
PMC6187967
pmc
6,458
{ "abstract": "Root nodule symbiosis (RNS) is a symbiotic interaction established between angiosperm hosts and nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria in specialized organs called root nodules. The host plants provide photosynthate and the microsymbionts supply fixed nitrogen. The origin of RNS represents a major evolutionary ...
7,235
38064042
PMC10787697
pmc
6,459
{ "abstract": "d -Glucaric acid is a potential biobased platform chemical. Previously mainly Escherichia coli, but also the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Pichia pastoris, have been engineered for conversion of d -glucose to d -glucaric acid via myo-inositol. One reason for low yields from the yeast stra...
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34735796
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{ "abstract": "Biofilms are community architectures adopted by bacteria inclusive of a self-formed extracellular matrix that protects resident bacteria from diverse environmental stresses and, in many species, incorporates extracellular DNA (eDNA) and DNABII proteins for structural integrity throughout biofilm develo...
240
28773390
PMC5502930
pmc
6,461
{ "abstract": "Fibers and fibrous structures are used extensively in various fields due to their many advantages. Microfibers, as well as nanofibers, are considered to be some of the most valuable forms of advanced materials. Accordingly, various methods for fabricating microfibers have been developed. Electrospinnin...
4,460
27211860
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{ "abstract": "Understanding the complex interactions that occur between heterologous and native biochemical pathways represents a major challenge in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. We present a workflow that integrates metabolomics, proteomics, and genome-scale models of Escherichia coli metabolism to s...
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{ "abstract": "Structural DNA nanotechnology utilizes DNA molecules as programmable information-coding polymers to create higher order structures at the nanometer scale. An important milestone in structural DNA nanotechnology was the development of scaffolded DNA origami in which a long single-stranded viral genome (...
263
28347074
PMC5304633
pmc
6,465
{ "abstract": "The effect of laser irradiation on surface wettability of cyclic olefin polymer (COP) was investigated. Under different laser parameters, a superhydrophilic or a superhydrophobic COP surface with a water contact angle (WCA) of almost 0° or 163°, respectively, could be achieved by direct femtosecond las...
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