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PMC8312983
pmc
7,021
{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) are mutualistic interactions formed between soil fungi and plant roots. AM symbiosis is a fundamental and widespread trait in plants with the potential to sustainably enhance future crop yields. However, improving AM fungal association in crop species requires a fundamental u...
5,021
36389645
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s2
7,022
{ "abstract": "Plant reproduction in metalliferous habitats is challenged by elevated concentrations of metal trace elements in soil. As part of their survival strategy, metal-tolerant plants have adjusted reproductive traits, including seed morphology, dormancy, and germination rate. These traits are particularly re...
268
33420292
PMC7794327
pmc
7,024
{ "abstract": "In the present study we investigate the microbial community inhabiting As Burgas geothermal spring, located in Ourense (Galicia, Spain). The approximately 23 Gbp of Illumina sequences generated for each replicate revealed a complex microbial community dominated by Bacteria in which Proteobacteria and A...
8,709
31135958
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s2
7,025
{ "abstract": "Plastids evolved from a cyanobacterium that was engulfed by a heterotrophic eukaryotic host and became a stable organelle. Some of the resulting eukaryotic algae entered into a number of secondary endosymbioses with diverse eukaryotic hosts. These events had major consequences on the evolution and dive...
269
34790178
PMC8591293
pmc
7,028
{ "abstract": "Light is a ubiquitous source of both energy and information in surface environments, and regulates gene expression not only in photosynthetic microorganisms, but in a broad range of photoheterotrophic and heterotrophic microbes as well. Actinobacteria are keystone species in surface freshwater environm...
3,354
17849010
PMC1964534
pmc
7,031
{ "abstract": "Background Several types of networks, such as transcriptional, metabolic or protein-protein interaction networks of various organisms have been constructed, that have provided a variety of insights into metabolism and regulation. Here, we seek to exploit the reaction-based networks of three organisms f...
12,103
29670508
PMC5893757
pmc
7,032
{ "abstract": "Artificial neural networks can harness stochasticity in multiple ways to enable a vast class of computationally powerful models. Boltzmann machines and other stochastic neural networks have been shown to outperform their deterministic counterparts by allowing dynamical systems to escape local energy mi...
2,199
30966150
PMC6415098
pmc
7,034
{ "abstract": "Self-healing materials have attracted much attention because that they possess the ability to increase the lifetime of materials and reduce the total cost of systems during the process of long-term use; incorporation of functional material enlarges their applications. Graphene, as a promising additive,...
1,107
11580860
PMC56995
pmc
7,035
{ "abstract": "Background Genomic sequence analyses have shown that horizontal gene transfer occurred during the origin of eukaryotes as a consequence of symbiosis. However, details of the timing and number of symbiotic events are unclear. A timescale for the early evolution of eukaryotes would help to better underst...
2,388
40263605
PMC12015412
pmc
7,036
{ "abstract": "Reinforcement learning algorithms that handle continuous action spaces have the problem of slow convergence and local optimality. Hence, we propose a deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm based on the dung beetle optimization algorithm (DBOP–DDPG) and priority experience replay mechanism. This m...
1,186
35263134
PMC8906750
pmc
7,037
{ "abstract": "The factors controlling lignin composition remain unclear. Catechyl (C)–lignin is a homopolymer of caffeyl alcohol with unique properties as a biomaterial and precursor of industrial chemicals. The lignin synthesized in the seed coat of Cleome hassleriana switches from guaiacyl (G)– to C-lignin at ar...
6,461
37426991
PMC10325728
pmc
7,038
{ "abstract": "Legumes are well-known for establishing a symbiotic relationship with rhizobia in root nodules to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. The nodulation signaling pathway 2 ( NSP2 ) gene plays a critical role in the symbiotic signaling pathway. In cultivated peanut, an allotetraploid (2n = 4x = 40, AABB) leg...
4,680
31467977
PMC6707778
pmc
7,039
{ "abstract": "Click chemistry can create freeze/heat-resistant, nonflammable, and highly robust ionic liquid–based click-ionogels.", "conclusion": "CONCLUSION A click-reaction process that introduces click-ionogels prepared under ambient conditions in a single step has been demonstrated. Because thiol-ene click ch...
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{ "abstract": "Eukaryotes evolved from a symbiosis involving alphaproteobacteria and archaea phylogenetically nested within the Asgard clade. Two recent studies explore the metabolic capabilities of Asgard lineages, supporting refined symbiotic metabolic interactions that might have operated at the dawn of eukaryogen...
77
36895758
PMC9988672
pmc
7,041
{ "abstract": "The data output from microbiome research is growing at an accelerating rate, yet mining the data quickly and efficiently remains difficult. There is still a lack of an effective data structure to represent and manage data, as well as flexible and composable analysis methods. In response to these two is...
3,356
39353557
PMC11444771
pmc
7,042
{ "abstract": "Mutualistic relationships with photosynthetic organisms are common in cnidarians, which form an intracellular symbiosis with dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae. The establishment and maintenance of these symbionts are associated with the suppression of key host immune factors. Because of thi...
5,143
21564335
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7,043
{ "abstract": "Since their inception 20 years ago, the biennial blast (Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction) meetings instantly became the place to be for exchanging and sharing the latest developments in the field of bacterial motility and signalling. At the 11th edition, held last January in New Orleans, LA...
173
38612017
PMC11012369
pmc
7,044
{ "abstract": "The microbial hybrid system modified by magnetic nanomaterials can enhance the interfacial electron transfer and energy conversion under the stimulation of a magnetic field. However, the bioelectrocatalytic performance of a hybrid system still needs to be improved, and the mechanism of magnetic field-i...
7,083
32049993
PMC7015315
pmc
7,045
{ "abstract": "Honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) colonies are valued for the pollination services that they provide. However, colony mortality has increased to unsustainable levels in some countries, including the United States. Landscape conversion to monocrop agriculture likely plays a role in this increased mortality b...
5,063
35505868
PMC9052801
pmc
7,046
{ "abstract": "Liquid–liquid\nphase separation (LLPS) is an emerging and\nuniversal mechanism for intracellular organization, particularly,\nby forming membraneless organelles (MLOs) hosting intrinsically disordered\nproteins (IDPs) as scaffolds. Genetic engineering is generally applied\nto reconstruct IDPs harboring...
6,751
29568284
PMC5853052
pmc
7,047
{ "abstract": "In this study, we designed a microbial electrochemical fluidized bed reactor (ME-FBR), with an electroconductive anodic bed made of activated carbon particles for treating a brewery wastewater. Under a batch operating mode, acetate and propionate consumption rates were 13-fold and 2.4-fold higher, resp...
8,745
31546779
PMC6783927
pmc
7,048
{ "abstract": "Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biodegradable plastic-like materials with versatile properties. Plant oils are excellent carbon sources for a cost-effective PHA production, due to their high carbon content, large availability, and comparatively low prices. Additionally, efficient process development a...
3,360
21219472
PMC3285556
pmc
7,049
{ "abstract": "Summary Quorum sensing is a process of bacterial cell–cell communication that enables populations of cells to carry out behaviours in unison. Quorum sensing involves detection of the density-dependent accumulation of extracellular signal molecules called autoinducers that elicit population-wide changes...
4,176
34084321
PMC8157749
pmc
7,051
{ "abstract": "The perception of organic crystals being rigid static entities is quickly eroding, and molecular crystals are now matching a number of properties previously thought to be unique to soft materials. Here, we present crystals of a boronate ester that encompass many of the elastic and plastic mechanical pr...
1,099
27242863
PMC4876123
pmc
7,052
{ "abstract": "Shrubs have positive (facilitation) and negative (competition) effects on understory plants, the net interaction effect being modulated by abiotic conditions. Overall shrubs influence to great extent the structure of plant communities where they have significant presence. Interactions in a plant commun...
3,740
39748701
PMC11744930
pmc
7,055
{ "abstract": "Methyl ketones, key\nbuilding blocks widely used in diverse\nindustrial\napplications, largely depend on oil-derived chemical methods for their\nproduction. Here, we investigated biobased production alternatives\nfor short-chain ketones, adapting the solvent-tolerant soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida ...
12,078
35848130
PMC9796341
pmc
7,056
{ "abstract": "Abstract Diversity of viruses infecting non‐extremophilic archaea has been grossly understudied. This is particularly the case for viruses infecting methanogenic archaea, key players in the global carbon biogeochemical cycle. Only a dozen of methanogenic archaeal viruses have been isolated so far. In t...
10,481
20575574
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7,058
{ "abstract": "DNA origami was used as a scaffold to arrange spherical virus capsids into one-dimensional arrays with precise nanoscale positioning. To do this, we first modified the interior surface of bacteriophage MS2 capsids with fluorescent dyes as a model cargo. An unnatural amino acid on the external surface w...
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{ "abstract": "The utility of thermoresponsive hydrogels, such as those based on poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm), is severely limited by their deficient mechanical properties. In particular, the simultaneous achievement of high strength and stiffness remains unreported. In this work, a thermoresponsive hydrogel...
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32573899
PMC7496599
pmc
7,063
{ "abstract": "Summary Interspecies bacterial competition may occur via cell‐associated or secreted determinants and is key to successful niche colonization. We previously evolved Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the presence of Staphylococcus aureus and identified mutations in the Wsp surface‐sensing signalling system....
3,573
37476829
PMC10354246
pmc
7,065
{ "abstract": "To navigate in new environments, an animal must be able to keep track of its position while simultaneously creating and updating an internal map of features in the environment, a problem formulated as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in the field of robotics. This requires integrating infor...
7,094
25567946
PMC3352509
pmc
7,066
{ "abstract": "The root systems of most agronomic crops are colonized by diverse assemblages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), varying in the functional benefits (e.g. nutrient transfer, pathogen protection, water uptake) provided to hosts. Little is known about the evolutionary processes that shape the composit...
2,423
38770267
PMC11105003
pmc
7,067
{ "abstract": "Transparency, flexibility, and high thermal conductivity\nare trade-offs.\nSpecifically, we have investigated a cross-linked acrylic liquid crystal\nelastomer (LCE) that exhibits both transparency and flexibility while\nmaintaining a high level of thermal conductivity. The transparent\nmonodomain LCE s...
5,206
24429552
PMC3893645
pmc
7,068
{ "abstract": "Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) share the principle of the microbially catalyzed anodic substrate oxidation. Creating an electrode interface to promote extracellular electron transfer from microbes to electrode and understanding such mechanisms are crucial for engineering BESs. In this study, signifi...
988
39858905
PMC11767486
pmc
7,069
{ "abstract": "Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a biodegradable natural polymer produced by different prokaryotes as a valuable carbon and energy storage compound. Its biosynthesis pathway requires the sole expression of the phaCAB operon, although auxiliary genes play a role in controlling polymer accumulation, degrad...
3,052
35105487
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7,071
{ "abstract": "Engineered microsystems for in vitro studies of cultured cells are evolving from simple 2D platforms to 3D architectures and organoid cultures. Despite advances in reproducing ever more sophisticated biology in these systems, there remain foundational challenges in re-creating key aspects of tissue com...
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PMC10340439
pmc
7,072
{ "abstract": "Abstract Social networks can influence the ecology of gut bacteria, shaping the species composition of the gut microbiome in humans and other animals. Gut commensals evolve and can adapt at a rapid pace when colonizing healthy hosts. Here, we aimed at assessing the impact of host-to-host bacterial tran...
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22735101
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{ "abstract": "We report here our systematic characterization of a photoinduced electron-transfer (ET) redox cycle in a covalently linked donor-spacer-acceptor flexible system, consisting of N-acetyl-tryptophan methylester as an electron donor and thymine as an electron acceptor in three distinct solvents of water, a...
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36976162
PMC10055941
pmc
7,074
{ "abstract": "The current study emphasizes fungi as an important tool against heavy metals and how isolated fungal species can be used to create a successful strategy for the bioremediation of chromium and arsenic-contaminated sites/soils. Globally, heavy metal pollution is a serious issue. In the current investigat...
3,370
33976129
PMC8113556
pmc
7,075
{ "abstract": "Realization of a self-assembled, nontoxic and eco-friendly piezoelectric device with high-performance, sensitivity and reliability is highly desirable to complement conventional inorganic and polymer based materials. Hierarchically organized natural materials such as collagen have long been posited to ...
8,854
38454600
PMC11052696
pmc
7,076
{ "abstract": "Many bacterial habitats—ranging from gels and tissues in the body to cell-secreted exopolysaccharides in biofilms—are rheologically complex, undergo dynamic external forcing, and have unevenly distributed nutrients. How do these features jointly influence how the resident cells grow and proliferate? He...
3,586
32351469
PMC7174568
pmc
7,078
{ "abstract": "Rumen fermentation affects ruminants productivity and the environmental impact of ruminant production. The release to the atmosphere of methane produced in the rumen is a loss of energy and a cause of climate change, and the profile of volatile fatty acids produced in the rumen affects the post-absorpt...
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30644148
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{ "abstract": "Bacterial type IV pili (T4P) are polymeric protein nanofibers that have diverse biological roles. Their unique physicochemical properties mark them as a candidate biomaterial for various applications, yet difficulties in producing native T4P hinder their utilization. Recent effort to mimic the T4P of t...
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30644148
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{ "abstract": "Bacterial type IV pili (T4P) are polymeric protein nanofibers that have diverse biological roles. Their unique physicochemical properties mark them as a candidate biomaterial for various applications, yet difficulties in producing native T4P hinder their utilization. Recent effort to mimic the T4P of t...
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35068628
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7,081
{ "abstract": "Grazing is known to affect soil microbial communities, nutrient cycling, and forage quantity and quality over time. However, a paucity of information exists for the immediate changes in the soil physicochemical and microbial environment in response to different grazing strategies. Soil microbes drive n...
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36842556
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7,082
{ "abstract": "Membrane bioreactors (MBRs) suffer from high operational and cleaning costs due to biofouling. The biofouling begins when the adhesins (an anchor-type epitope made up of polar and charged amino acids) on microbial appendages bind to the surface. Two different compounds-dodecyl-β-D-maltoside (DDM) and m...
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PMC8170006
pmc
7,084
{ "abstract": "Summary The use of biomacromolecules is a nascent development in clean alternative energies. In applications of biosensors and biophotovoltaic devices, the bacterial photosynthetic reaction center (RC) is a protein-pigment complex that has been commonly interfaced with electrodes, in large part to take...
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23857726
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7,086
{ "abstract": "The term hydrogel describes a type of soft and wet material formed by cross-linked hydrophilic polymers. The distinct feature of hydrogels is their ability to absorb a large amount of water and swell. The properties of a hydrogel are usually determined by the chemical properties of their constituent po...
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7,089
{ "abstract": "Climate change, with its extreme temperature, weather and precipitation patterns, is a major global concern of dryland farmers, who currently meet the challenges of climate change agronomically and with growth of drought-tolerant crops. Plants themselves compensate for water stress by modifying aerial ...
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{ "abstract": "Climate change, with its extreme temperature, weather and precipitation patterns, is a major global concern of dryland farmers, who currently meet the challenges of climate change agronomically and with growth of drought-tolerant crops. Plants themselves compensate for water stress by modifying aerial ...
446
33318197
PMC7776822
pmc
7,092
{ "abstract": "Significance Changes in ocean redox chemistry are frequently observed in Earth’s history and have fundamental implications for the evolution of marine life. These transitions are commonly ascribed to large changes in the supply of iron, sulfur, or organic carbon in the deeper ocean. We propose that sma...
7,700
37723228
PMC10507100
pmc
7,093
{ "abstract": "Crop rotation is an important agricultural practice for homeostatic crop cultivation. Here, we applied high-throughput sequencing of ribosomal RNA gene amplicons to investigate soil biota in two fields of central Japan with different histories of maize–cabbage rotation. We identified 3086 eukaryotic an...
5,022
37537795
PMC10832534
pmc
7,094
{ "abstract": "Abstract As one of the main precursors, acetyl‐CoA leads to the predominant production of even‐chain products. From an industrial biotechnology perspective, extending the acyl‐CoA portfolio of a cell factory is vital to producing industrial relevant odd‐chain alcohols, acids, ketones and polyketides. T...
6,996
37638302
PMC10450786
pmc
7,095
{ "abstract": "Honey bees use a complex form of spatial referential communication. Their waggle dance communicates to nestmates the direction, distance, and quality of a resource by encoding celestial cues, retinal optic flow, and relative food value into motion and sound within the nest. This protocol was developed ...
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35540780
PMC9079982
pmc
7,096
{ "abstract": "Nitrogen deposition and soil salinization–alkalization have become major environmental problems throughout the world. Leymus chinensis is the dominant, and considered the most valuable, species for grassland restoration in the Northeast of China. However, little information exists concerning the role...
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33848489
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7,099
{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) are the most frequent symbioses of land plants. By reisolating a long-lost fungus from nature, a new study cracks the genomics of an enigmatic fungal-cyanobacterial partnership and reestablishes a valuable model for understanding the AM symbiosis." }
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PMC3018171
pmc
7,100
{ "abstract": "Sensor histidine kinases underlie the regulation of a range of physiological processes in bacterial cells, from chemotaxis to cell division. In the gram-negative bacterium Caulobacter crescentus , the membrane-bound histidine kinase, DivJ, is a polar-localized regulator of cell cycle progression and d...
5,320
35418298
PMC8764830
pmc
7,102
{ "abstract": "Background Methylacidiphilum sp. IT6 has been validated its C3 substrate assimilation pathway via acetol as a key intermediate using the PmoCAB3, a homolog of the particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO). From the transcriptomic data, the contribution of PmoD of strain IT6 in acetone oxidation was que...
3,870
35539103
PMC9078405
pmc
7,103
{ "abstract": "Recent developments of self-powered devices and systems have attracted much attention. Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) has been regarded as one of the most promising materials for building high-performance nanogenerators. Herein, vertically aligned PZT nanorod arrays were synthesized on a pre-oxidized Ti...
4,069
36739554
PMC10952891
pmc
7,104
{ "abstract": "Summary \n Most plants form mycorrhizal associations with mutualistic soil fungi. Through these partnerships, resources are exchanged including photosynthetically fixed carbon for fungal‐acquired nutrients. Recently, it was shown that the diversity of associated fungi is greater than previously assumed...
4,181
23258841
PMC3595025
pmc
7,105
{ "abstract": "An open question regarding the evolution of photosynthesis is how cyanobacteria came to possess the two reaction center (RC) types, Type I reaction center (RCI) and Type II reaction center (RCII). The two main competing theories in the foreground of current thinking on this issue are that either 1) RCI...
6,228
39483348
PMC11527095
pmc
7,106
{ "abstract": "Neural circuits in the brain perform a variety of essential functions, including\ninput classification, pattern completion, and the generation of rhythms and oscillations\nthat support processes such as breathing and locomotion [ 51 ]. There is also substantial evidence that the brain encodes memories ...
5,772
33444327
PMC7808614
pmc
7,107
{ "abstract": "Methanol is often considered as a non-competitive substrate for methanogenic archaea, but an increasing number of sulfate-reducing microorganisms (SRMs) have been reported to be capable of respiring with methanol as an electron donor. A better understanding of the fate of methanol in natural or artific...
5,577
29807839
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{ "abstract": "Evidence is increasing for positive effects of α-diversity on ecosystem functioning. We highlight here the crucial role of β-diversity - a hitherto underexplored facet of biodiversity - for a better process-level understanding of biodiversity change and its consequences for ecosystems. A focus on β-div...
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PMC3765991
pmc
7,109
{ "abstract": "Background Fermentative hydrogen production is an attractive means for the sustainable production of this future energy carrier but is hampered by low yields. One possible solution is to create, using metabolic engineering, strains which can bypass the normal metabolic limits to substrate conversion to...
6,947
34123258
PMC8148073
pmc
7,110
{ "abstract": "Guaiacol is an important feedstock for producing various high-value chemicals. However, the current production route of guaiacol relies heavily on fossil resources. Using lignin as a cheap and renewable feedstock to selectively produce guaiacol has great potential, but it is a challenge because of its ...
3,884
38226148
PMC10788777
pmc
7,112
{ "abstract": "Brain-inspired computing systems require a rich variety of neuromorphic devices using multi-functional materials operating at room temperature. Artificial synapses which can be operated using optical and electrical stimuli are in high demand. In this regard, layered materials have attracted a lot of at...
2,413
22439012
PMC3306314
pmc
7,113
{ "abstract": "Elevated ocean temperatures and agrochemical pollution individually threaten inshore coral reefs, but these pressures are likely to occur simultaneously. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the combined effects of elevated temperature and the photosystem II (PSII) inhibiting herbicide diuron on seve...
5,317
36199189
PMC10092097
pmc
7,115
{ "abstract": "Euendolithic, or true‐boring, cyanobacteria actively erode carbonate‐containing substrata in a wide range of environments and pose significant risks to calcareous marine fauna. Their boring activities cause structural damage and increase susceptibility to disease and are projected to only intensify wit...
2,710
35222314
PMC8863614
pmc
7,116
{ "abstract": "It is well known that speciation transformations of As(III) vs. As(V) in acid mine drainage (AMD) are mainly driven by microbially mediated redox reactions of Fe and S. However, these processes are rarely investigated. In this study, columns containing mine water were inoculated with two typical acidop...
6,081
22211106
PMC3248649
pmc
7,118
{ "abstract": "Mass production of glucosamine (GlcN) using microbial cells is a worthy approach to increase added values and keep safety problems in GlcN production process. Prior to set up a microbial cellular platform, this study was to assess acetate metabolism in Citrobacter sp. BL-4 (BL-4) which has produced a...
3,516
20224547
PMC3144576
pmc
7,120
{ "abstract": "The need for renewable, carbon neutral, and sustainable raw materials for industry and society has become one of the most pressing issues for the 21st century. This has rekindled interest in the use of plant products as industrial raw materials for the production of liquid fuels for transportation 1 a...
685
33260379
PMC7760971
pmc
7,123
{ "abstract": "To fabricate an industrial and highly efficient super-hydrophobic brass surface, annealed H59 brass samples have here been textured by using a 1064 nm wavelength nanosecond fiber laser. The effects of different laser parameters (such as laser fluence, scanning speed, and repetition frequency), on the t...
2,317
35844067
PMC9544590
pmc
7,125
{ "abstract": "Abstract Light availability is the main regulator of primary production, shaping photosynthetic communities and their production of ecologically important biomolecules. In freshwater ecosystems, increasing dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations, commonly known as browning, leads to lower light a...
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25806595
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{ "abstract": "Methane monooxygenases (MMOs) are enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of methane to methanol in methanotrophic bacteria. As potential targets for new gas-to-liquid methane bioconversion processes, MMOs have attracted intense attention in recent years. There are two distinct types of MMO, a soluble, cyt...
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{ "abstract": "For the past 20 years, research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF) has only implicitly considered the underlying role of environmental change. We illustrate that explicitly reintroducing environmental change drivers in B-EF research is needed to predict the functioning of ecosystems facin...
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PMC11469257
pmc
7,129
{ "abstract": "Abstract Future robots and intelligent systems will autonomously navigate in unstructured environments and closely collaborate with humans; integrated with our bodies and minds, they will allow us to surpass our physical limitations. Traditional robots are mostly built from rigid, metallic components a...
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PMC11215720
pmc
7,131
{ "abstract": "Biomass is an abundantly available, underutilized feedstock\nfor\nthe production of bulk and fine chemicals, polymers, and sustainable\nand biodegradable plastics that are traditionally sourced from petrochemicals.\nAmong potential feedstocks, 2,5-furan dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) stands\nout for its pote...
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{ "abstract": "Hyperbolic discounting of future outcomes is widely observed to underlie choice behavior in animals. Additionally, recent studies (Kobayashi & Schultz, 2008) have reported that hyperbolic discounting is observed even in neural systems underlying choice. However, the most prevalent models of temporal di...
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PMC2757589
pmc
7,135
{ "abstract": "The majority of plants are involved in symbioses with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and these associations are known to have a strong influence on the performance of both plants and insect herbivores. Little is known about the impact of AMF on complex trophic chains, although such effects are con...
5,033
28401691
PMC5658586
pmc
7,137
{ "abstract": "Biocatalysis can enable a closed‐loop recycling of post‐consumer PET waste.", "conclusion": "Concluding remarks Microbial polyester hydrolases have shown their potential in the biocatalytic depolymerization of PET. For an efficient degradation of postconsumer PET plastic waste in an industrial proces...
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{ "abstract": "The DNA-origami technique has enabled the engineering of transmembrane nanopores with programmable size and functionality, showing promise in building biosensors and synthetic cells. However, it remains challenging to build large (>10 nm), functionalizable nanopores that spontaneously perforate lipid m...
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PMC3892345
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The rhizosphere microbial community in a hydroponics system with multiple parallel mineralization (MPM) can potentially suppress root-borne diseases. This study focused on revealing the biological nature of the suppression against Fusarium wilt disease, which is caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum...
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PMC10215164
pmc
7,141
{ "abstract": "Simple Summary Division of labour is a crucial characteristic of social organisations such as insect colonies and is a key feature in their well-known survival and efficacy. The presence of “laziness”, or inactivity is a widely debated phenomenon that has been observed in some colonies and is puzzling ...
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33973345
PMC8596668
pmc
7,145
{ "abstract": "Summary Saprotrophic fungi play an important role in ecosystem functioning and plant performance, but their abundance in intensively managed arable soils is low. Saprotrophic fungal biomass in arable soils can be enhanced with amendments of cellulose‐rich materials. Here, we examined if sawdust‐stimula...
5,511
29900421
PMC5995451
pmc
7,146
{ "abstract": "Advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology have facilitated the manufacturing of many valuable-added compounds and commodity chemicals using microbial cell factories in the past decade. However, due to complexity of cellular metabolism, the optimization of metabolic pathways for maximal pr...
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28899034
PMC5812505
pmc
7,147
{ "abstract": "Abstract Over the last 15 years, several genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs) were developed for different yeast species, aiding both the elucidation of new biological processes and the shift toward a bio-based economy, through the design of in silico inspired cell factories. Here, an historical per...
1,051
39805848
PMC11730660
pmc
7,148
{ "abstract": "Here, we design exotic interfaces within a flexible thermoelectric device, incorporating a polyimide substrate, Ti contact layer, Cu electrode, Ti barrier layer, and thermoelectric thin film. The device features 162 pairs of thin-film legs with high room-temperature performance, using p-Bi 0.5 Sb 1.5 T...
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PMC9712798
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{ "abstract": "Concern that depletion of fertilizer feedstocks, which are a finite mineral resource, threatens agricultural sustainability has driven the exploration of sustainable methods of soil fertilization. Given that microalgae, which are unicellular photosynthetic organisms, can take up nutrients efficiently f...
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33286159
PMC7516857
pmc
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{ "abstract": "How cognitive neural systems process information is largely unknown, in part because of how difficult it is to accurately follow the flow of information from sensors via neurons to actuators. Measuring the flow of information is different from measuring correlations between firing neurons, for which se...
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38257543
PMC10819133
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{ "abstract": "The growing demand from the extended reality and wearable electronics market has led to an increased focus on the development of flexible human-machine interfaces (HMI). These interfaces require efficient user input acquisition modules that can realize touch operation, handwriting input, and motion sen...
1,381
31067695
PMC6562933
pmc
7,153
{ "abstract": "The halotolerant photoautotrophic marine microalga Dunaliella salina is one of the richest sources of natural carotenoids. Here we investigated the effects of high intensity blue, red and white light from light emitting diodes (LED) on the production of carotenoids by strains of D. salina under nut...
5,148
39914849
PMC11843533
pmc
7,154
{ "abstract": "New logic in memory (LiM) architectures, able to unify\nmemory and\nlogic functionalities into a single component, are highly promising\nfor executing self-learning algorithms such as artificial neural networks\n(ANNs), with lower energy requirements. The multigated reconfigurable\nfield effect transis...
7,319
36626561
PMC9934207
pmc
7,159
{ "abstract": "Significance Understanding the mechanisms structuring soil bacterial diversity is central to predicting how organisms and communities respond to biotic/abiotic disturbances. Metabolic theory has provided a framework to explain patterns of physiology and diversity in ecological communities. We establish...
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{ "abstract": "A peptide-based hydrogel has been designed that directs the formation of hydroxyapatite. MDG1, a twenty-seven residue peptide, undergoes triggered folding to form an unsymmetrical beta-hairpin that self-assembles in response to an increase in solution ionic strength to yield a mechanically rigid, self ...
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{ "abstract": "Red-light bacteriophytochromes regulate many physiological functions through photoisomerization of a linear tetrapyrrole chromophore. In this work, we mapped out femtosecond-resolved fluorescence spectra of the excited Pr state and observed unique active-site relaxations on the picosecond time scale wi...
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38030907
PMC10686828
pmc
7,165
{ "abstract": "Dimethylsulfoxonium propionate (DMSOP) is a recently identified and abundant marine organosulfur compound with roles in oxidative stress protection, global carbon and sulfur cycling and, as shown here, potentially in osmotolerance. Microbial DMSOP cleavage yields dimethyl sulfoxide, a ubiquitous marine...
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PMC5337119
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{ "abstract": "Summary Methane biogenesis in methanogens is mediated by methyl-coenzyme M reductase, an enzyme that is also responsible for the utilisation of methane through anaerobic methane oxidation. The enzyme employs an ancillary factor called coenzyme F 430 , a nickel-containing modified tetrapyrrole that prom...
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28421166
PMC5376567
pmc
7,168
{ "abstract": "The significance of polymicrobial infections is increasingly being recognized especially in a biofilm context wherein multiple bacterial species—including both potential pathogens and members of the commensal flora—communicate, cooperate, and compete with each other. Two important bacterial pathogens t...
1,876
33920295
PMC8069537
pmc
7,169
{ "abstract": "This paper focuses on the energy generating capacity of polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) piezoelectric material through a number of prototype sensors with different geometric and loading characteristics. The effect of sensor configuration, surface area, dielectric thickness, aspect ratio, loading frequ...
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