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{ "abstract": "Abstract Biological membranes achieve selectivity and permeability through protein transporters and channels. The design of artificial compartments with permeable membranes is essential to facilitate substrate and product transfer in enzymatic reactions. In this study, an E. coli outer membrane prote...
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PMC9969067
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{ "abstract": "Methyl methacrylate (MMA) is an important petrochemical with many applications. However, its manufacture has a large environmental footprint. Combined biological and chemical synthesis (semisynthesis) may be a promising alternative to reduce both cost and environmental impact, but strains that can prod...
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PMC8166188
pmc
8,000
{ "abstract": "Significance Using food web models that account for juvenile and adult individuals of species, I show that commonly observed differences between juveniles and adults in foraging capacity and predation risk result in larger, more complex communities than predicted by models without stage structure. Base...
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PMC6566298
pmc
8,001
{ "abstract": "A water insoluble peptide-hydrogel that shows unique compartmentalization by not allowing any exchange to and from the hydrogel and can protect enzymes from denaturation.", "conclusion": "Conclusions In summary, a unique supramolecular hydrogel is reported which remains insoluble in water and other a...
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{ "abstract": "Efforts to expand the scope of ribosome-mediated polymerization to incorporate noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into peptides and proteins hold promise for creating new classes of enzymes, therapeutics, and materials. Recently, the integrated synthesis, assembly, and translation (iSAT) system was estab...
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PMC8787393
pmc
8,003
{ "abstract": "Abstract In flexible electronics, appropriate inlaid structures for stress dispersion to avoid excessive deformation that can break chemical bonds are lacking, which greatly hinders the fabrication of super‐foldable composite materials capable of sustaining numerous times of true‐folding. Here, mimicki...
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PMC9128571
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Biofilms are arguably the most important mode of growth of bacteria, but how antibiotic resistance emerges and is selected in biofilms remains poorly understood. Several models to study evolution of antibiotic resistance have been developed, however, their usability varies depending on the nature of th...
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18699996
PMC2572599
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Introduction The limited availability of fossil fuel sources, worldwide rising energy demands and anticipated climate changes attributed to an increase of greenhouse gasses are important driving forces for finding alternative energy sources. One approach to meeting the increasing energy demands and red...
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PMC6411895
pmc
8,007
{ "abstract": "Differentiating biotic and abiotic processes in nature remains a persistent challenge, specifically in evaluating microbial contributions to geochemical processes through time. Building on previous work reporting that biologically-influenced systems exhibit stronger long-range correlation than abiotic ...
3,444
34917493
PMC8666517
pmc
8,008
{ "abstract": "Highlights • Electricity production by biocathode containing MFC in long-term operation. • Biocathodes shows overall advantages over abiotic cathodes. • Voltammetric analysis supports a more sustainable electron transfer using biocathodes. • PCR-RFLP analysis identified potential electricity producing ...
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27077014
PMC4830246
pmc
8,009
{ "abstract": "Oxygen minimum zones (OMZ) are areas in the global ocean where oxygen concentrations drop to below one percent. Low oxygen concentrations allow alternative respiration with nitrate and nitrite as electron acceptor to become prevalent in these areas, making them main contributors to oceanic nitrogen los...
10,325
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PMC8152672
pmc
8,010
{ "abstract": "Stimuli-responsive hydrogels have attracted attention as soft actuators that act similarly to muscles. In this work, hydrogel actuators controlled by host–guest interactions have been developed. The introduction of a 1:1 inclusion complex into a hydrogel is a popular design for achieving a change in cr...
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{ "abstract": "Native tissues orchestrate their functions by complex interdependent cascades of biochemical and biophysical cues that vary spatially and temporally during cellular processes. Scaffolds with well-tuned structural, mechanical, and biochemical properties have been developed to guide cell behavior and pro...
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PMC4991723
pmc
8,012
{ "abstract": "Desulfotomaculum copahuensis strain CINDEFI1 is a novel spore-forming sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from the Copahue volcano area, Argentina. Here, we present its draft genome in which we found genes related with the anaerobic respiration of sulfur compounds similar to those present in the Copah...
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PMC4783879
pmc
8,013
{ "abstract": "Marine macroalgae (green, red and brown macroalgae) have attracted attention as an alternative source of renewable biomass for producing both fuels and chemicals due to their high content of suitable carbohydrates and to their advantages over terrestrial biomass. However, except for green macroalgae, w...
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{ "abstract": "Social transmission of information is vital for many group-living animals, allowing coordination of motion and effective response to complex environments. Revealing the interaction networks underlying information flow within these groups is a central challenge. Previous work has modeled interactions be...
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23624511
PMC3638166
pmc
8,015
{ "abstract": "In the Red Sea, two neighboring deep-sea brine pools, Atlantis II and Discovery, have been studied extensively, and the results have shown that the temperature and concentrations of metal and methane in Atlantis II have increased over the past decades. Therefore, we investigated changes in the microbia...
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PMC3655853
pmc
8,016
{ "abstract": "Background A single cultured marine organism, Nanoarchaeum equitans , represents the Nanoarchaeota branch of symbiotic Archaea, with a highly reduced genome and unusual features such as multiple split genes. Results The first terrestrial hyperthermophilic member of the Nanoarchaeota was collected ...
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PMC10845243
pmc
8,019
{ "abstract": "A polymicrobial biofilm model of Komagataeibacter hansenii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa was developed to understand whether a pre-existing matrix affects the ability of another species to build a biofilm. P. aeruginosa was inoculated onto the preformed K. hansenii biofilm consisting of a cellulos...
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PMC6102323
pmc
8,020
{ "abstract": "Experimental microbial ecology and evolution have yielded foundational insights into ecological and evolutionary processes using simple microcosm setups and phenotypic assays with one- or two-species model systems. The fields are now increasingly incorporating more complex systems and exploration of th...
3,443
25350160
PMC4409162
pmc
8,021
{ "abstract": "Low-input agricultural systems aim at reducing the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides in order to improve sustainable production and ecosystem health. Despite the integral role of the soil microbiome in agricultural production, we still have a limited understanding of the complex response of m...
6,516
33939701
PMC8092802
pmc
8,022
{ "abstract": "Within the field of bioproduction, non-model organisms offer promise as bio-platform candidates. Non-model organisms can possess natural abilities to consume complex feedstocks, produce industrially useful chemicals, and withstand extreme environments that can be ideal for product extraction. However, ...
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PMC5655573
pmc
8,024
{ "abstract": "Flax dew-retting is a key step in the industrial extraction of fibers from flax stems and is dependent upon the production of a battery of hydrolytic enzymes produced by micro-organisms during this process. To explore the diversity and dynamics of bacterial and fungal communities involved in this proce...
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PMC6010908
pmc
8,026
{ "abstract": "Abstract Marine macrofoulers (e.g., barnacles, tubeworms, mussels) create underwater adhesives capable of attaching themselves to almost any material. The difficulty in removing these organisms frustrates maritime and oceanographic communities, and fascinates biomedical and industrial communities seeki...
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{ "abstract": "Many synthetic and natural peptides are known to self-assemble to form various nanostructures. During the self-assembling process, environmental conditions such as salt concentration, pH, temperature, and surface characteristics play a critical role by influencing intermolecular interactions, and hence...
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PMC6988560
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Alternative stable states are nontransitory states within which communities can exist. However, even highly dynamic communities can be viewed within the framework of stable‐state theory if an appropriate “ecologically relevant” time scale is identified. The ecologically relevant time scale for...
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PMC6721167
pmc
8,029
{ "abstract": "Simple Summary Dietary interventions aimed at reducing methane production may be influenced by other factors such as animal breed and feed efficiency (indicated by residual feed intake (RFI) status). We examined the rumen and fecal microbiota of Holstein and Jersey dairy cows with diverging RFI status ...
3,547
30777812
PMC6421345
pmc
8,030
{ "abstract": "Two common classes of nitrogen-fixing legume root nodules are those that have determinate or indeterminate meristems, as in Phaseolus bean and pea, respectively. In indeterminate nodules, rhizobia terminally differentiate into bacteroids with endoreduplicated genomes, whereas bacteroids from determin...
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PMC10609205
pmc
8,031
{ "abstract": "In the pursuit of cultivating anaerobic anoxygenic phototrophs with unusual absorbance spectra, a purple sulfur bacterium was isolated from the shoreline of Baltrum, a North Sea island of Germany. It was designated strain 970, due to a predominant light harvesting complex (LH) absorption maximum at 963...
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{ "abstract": "An electrochemical process has been developed for chemoselective oxidation of primary alcohols in lignin to the corresponding carboxylic acids. The electrochemical oxidation reactions proceed under mildly basic conditions and employ 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidine N-oxyl (TEMPO) and 4-acetamido-TEMPO ...
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PMC10508126
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8,033
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Here, we sequence and analyze a biofilm-forming strain of Enterococcus faecalis BAU_Ef01 isolated from a shrimp in Bangladesh. The whole genome of the strain had a length of 2,862,301 bp, 38 contigs, an average G+C content of 37.36%, 80.0× genome coverage, and 35 predicted antibiotic resista...
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{ "abstract": "Microfluidic technologies have been used across diverse disciplines (" }
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PMC10416014
pmc
8,038
{ "abstract": "Biochar is a carbonaceous porous material that is produced through the thermal processing of biomass under oxygen-limited environment. Nevertheless, biochar is known to be an inexpensive and sustainable raw material with a wide range of possible applications. Recently, biochar has been discovered as an...
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PMC8777261
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Diatoms are one of the most successful phytoplankton groups in our oceans, being responsible for over 20% of the Earth's photosynthetic productivity. Their chimeric genomes have genes derived from red algae, green algae, bacteria, and heterotrophs, resulting in multiple isoenzymes targeted to ...
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{ "abstract": "We investigated the phenomenon of incomplete wetting of a high-energy liquid subphase by drops of pure amphiphilic molecules as well as drops of amphiphile solutions that are immiscible with the subphase. We show that amphiphiles escape across the contact line of the drop, move on the subphase/vapor in...
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PMC5787283
pmc
8,042
{ "abstract": "Background We previously developed an E. coli strain that overproduces medium-chain methyl ketones for potential use as diesel fuel blending agents or as flavors and fragrances. To date, the strain’s performance has been optimized during growth with glucose. However, lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysa...
4,989
37938401
PMC9723598
pmc
8,043
{ "abstract": "Southern Ocean (SO) diatoms play an important role in global carbon flux, and their influence on carbon export is directly linked to interactions with epiphytic bacteria. Bacterial symbionts that increase diatom growth promote atmospheric carbon uptake, while bacterial degraders divert diatom biomass i...
5,758
38232281
PMC10823229
pmc
8,044
{ "abstract": "Significance Addressing the challenges of global sustainability and alleviating energy shortages requires pioneer methods for efficient methane production. Methanogenic archaea, central to this endeavor, are constrained by the inherent energy conservation and strict substrate specificity. Our light-dri...
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30056004
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8,046
{ "abstract": "Signal transmission among cells enables long-range coordination in biological systems. However, the scarcity of quantitative measurements hinders the development of theories that relate signal propagation to cellular heterogeneity and spatial organization. We address this problem in a bacterial communi...
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PMC11371424
pmc
8,047
{ "abstract": "Stigmergy, the indirect communication between agents of a swarm through dynamic environmental modifications, is a fundamental self-organization mechanism of animal swarms. Engineers have drawn inspiration from stigmergy to establish strategies for the coordination of swarms of robots and of mixed socie...
4,256
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PMC12000269
pmc
8,048
{ "abstract": "The normal development of mycorrhizal symbiosis is a dynamic process, requiring elaborately regulated interactions between plant roots and compatible fungi, mandatory for both partners´ survival. In the present study, we further elucidated the mycorrhizal development of the desert truffles Terfezia cl...
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PMC4314589
pmc
8,050
{ "abstract": "During the past several decades, Escherichia coli has been a treasure chest for molecular biology. The molecular mechanisms of many fundamental cellular processes have been discovered through research on this bacterium. Although much basic research now focuses on more complex model organisms, E. col...
1,235
26257881
PMC4523364
pmc
8,051
{ "abstract": "Variation in population size over time can influence our ability to identify landscape-moderated differences in community assembly. To date, however, most studies at the landscape scale only cover snapshots in time, thereby overlooking the temporal dynamics of populations and communities. In this paper...
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27996047
PMC5187423
pmc
8,053
{ "abstract": "Kinetic models of metabolism at a genome scale that faithfully recapitulate the effect of multiple genetic interventions would be transformative in our ability to reliably design novel overproducing microbial strains. Here, we introduce k - ecoli457, a genome-scale kinetic model of Escherichia coli m...
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{ "abstract": "Foremost among the challenges facing single molecule sequencing of proteins by nanopores is the lack of a universal method for driving proteins or peptides into nanopores. In contrast to nucleic acids, the backbones of which are uniformly negatively charged nucleotides, proteins carry positive, negativ...
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PMC7375236
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8,056
{ "abstract": "Abstract A remarkable feature of modern electronic and photonic devices is the ability to maintain their geometric and physical properties in various circumstances for practical applications. However, there is an increasing demand for reconfigurable devices and systems that can be triggered or switched...
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PMC11600729
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8,057
{ "abstract": "Introduction Fusarium wilt disease (FWD) of tobacco is a destructive disease caused by Fusarium spp. in tobacco-growing regions worldwide. The Fusarium spp. infection may alter the composition and structure of the tobacco root microbial community; however, the relationship between these factors und...
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PMC6584873
pmc
8,058
{ "abstract": "Within the last decade, there has been an explosion of multi-omics data generated for several microbial systems. At the same time, new methods of analysis have emerged that are based on inferring networks that link features both within and between species based on correlation in abundance.", "conclus...
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PMC10676204
pmc
8,059
{ "abstract": "Over the years, microbial community composition in the rhizosphere has been extensively studied as the most fascinating topic in microbial ecology. In general, plants affect soil microbiota through rhizodeposits and changes in abiotic conditions. However, a consensus on the response of microbiota trait...
5,456
37484356
PMC10360604
pmc
8,060
{ "abstract": "Most worldwide policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlight soil as a key non-renewable natural resource which should be rigorously preserved to achieve long-term global sustainability. Although some soil is naturally enriched with heavy metals (HMs), a serie...
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8,061
{ "abstract": "Many biomaterials constructed today are complex chemical structures that incorporate biologically active components derived from nature, but the field can still be said to be in its infancy. The need for materials that bring sophisticated properties of structure, dynamics and function to medical and no...
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PMC3633777
pmc
8,062
{ "abstract": "Ectomycorrhizas (EcM) are important for soil exploration and thereby may shape belowground interactions of roots. We investigated the composition and spatial structures of EcM assemblages in relation to host genotype in an old-growth, monospecific beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) forest. We hypothesized that ...
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25584120
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8,063
{ "abstract": "In this paper we describe an FPGA-based platform for high-performance and low-power simulation of neural microcircuits composed from integrate-and-fire (IAF) neurons. Based on high-level synthesis, our platform uses design templates to map hierarchies of neuron model to logic fabrics. This approach byp...
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{ "abstract": "Self-assembly represents a robust and powerful paradigm for the bottom-up construction of nanostructures. Templated condensation of silica precursors on self-assembled nanoscale peptide fibrils with various surface functionalities can be used to mimic biosilicification. This template-defined approach t...
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PMC5064364
pmc
8,066
{ "abstract": "Here, we report a stable and predictable aero-elastic motion in the flow-driven energy harvester, which is different from flapping and vortex-induced-vibration (VIV). A unified theoretical frame work that describes the flutter phenomenon observed in both “stiff” and “flexible” materials for flow driven...
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PMC3852633
pmc
8,068
{ "abstract": "The Archaea represent the so-called Third Domain of life, which has evolved in parallel with the Bacteria and which is implicated to have played a pivotal role in the emergence of the eukaryotic domain of life. Recent progress in genomic sequencing technologies and cultivation-independent methods has s...
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26647299
PMC4672918
pmc
8,070
{ "abstract": "Bacteria have diverse mechanisms for competition that include biosynthesis of extracellular enzymes and antibiotic metabolites, as well as changes in community physiology, such as biofilm formation or motility. Considered collectively, networks of competitive functions for any organism determine succes...
4,312
28587290
PMC5484115
pmc
8,071
{ "abstract": "Genome mining has become an increasingly powerful, scalable, and economically accessible tool for the study of natural product biosynthesis and drug discovery. However, there remain important biological and practical problems that can complicate or obscure biosynthetic analysis in genomic and metagenom...
2,006
30961056
PMC6403572
pmc
8,072
{ "abstract": "For the design of the next generation of microelectronic packages, thermal management is one of the key aspects and must be met by the development of polymers with enhanced thermal conductivity. While all polymer classes show a very low thermal conductivity, this shortcoming can be compensated for by t...
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PMC8553950
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{ "abstract": "Quorum sensing (QS) can function to shape the microbial community interactions, composition, and function. In wastewater treatment systems, acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-based QS has been correlated with the conversion of floccular biomass into microbial granules, as well as EPS production and the ...
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PMC10022739
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Woodlands are pivotal to carbon stocks, but the process of cycling C is slow and may be most effective in the biodiverse root zone. How the root zone impacts plants has been widely examined over the past few decades, but the role of the root zone in decomposition is understudied. Here, we examined how ...
4,436
26484735
PMC5029217
pmc
8,077
{ "abstract": "Microorganisms in the terrestrial deep biosphere host up to 20% of the earth's biomass and are suggested to be sustained by the gases hydrogen and carbon dioxide. A metagenome analysis of three deep subsurface water types of contrasting age (from <20 to several thousand years) and depth (171 to 448 m) ...
8,754
33193187
PMC7644778
pmc
8,078
{ "abstract": "The Galápagos Archipelago is located at the intersection of several major oceanographic features that produce diverse environmental conditions around the islands, and thus has the potential to serve as a natural laboratory for discerning the underlying environmental factors that structure marine microb...
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{ "abstract": "The social soil bacterium, Myxococcus xanthus, displays a variety of complex and highly coordinated behaviours, including social motility, predatory rippling and fruiting body formation. Here we show that M. xanthus cells produce a network of outer membrane extensions in the form of outer membrane vesi...
352
31708944
PMC6819368
pmc
8,080
{ "abstract": "Recent evidence for intimate relationship of plants with their microbiota shows that plants host individual and diverse microbial communities that are essential for their survival. Understanding their relatedness using genome-based and high-throughput techniques remains a hot topic in microbiome resear...
1,229
32655517
PMC7325975
pmc
8,081
{ "abstract": "The overwhelming majority of studies examining environmental change deliver treatments abruptly, although, in fact, many important changes are gradual. One example of a gradually increasing environmental stressor is heavy metal contamination. Essential heavy metals, such as copper, play an important ro...
3,324
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PMC8673773
pmc
8,082
{ "abstract": "Stretchable photodetectors for wearable electronics maintain a high level of performance when stretched by at least 60%.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION As technology evolves, the demand for interfaces that connect the digital and physical worlds continues to increase. Wearables, the Internet of Thin...
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PMC9920363
pmc
8,085
{ "abstract": "Plants in coastal ecosystems are primarily known as natural sinks of trace metals and their importance for phytoremediation is well established. Salvadora persica L., a medicinally important woody crop of marginal coasts, was evaluated for the accumulation of metal pollutants (viz. Fe, Mn, Cu, Pb, Zn...
4,647
28949325
PMC5739006
pmc
8,086
{ "abstract": "Massive biofilms have been discovered in the cave of an iodine-rich former medicinal spring in southern Germany. The biofilms completely cover the walls and ceilings of the cave, giving rise to speculations about their metabolism. Here we report on first insights into the structure and function of the ...
5,968
39294211
PMC11411068
pmc
8,087
{ "abstract": "Understanding the factors driving the maintenance of long-term biodiversity in changing environments is essential for improving restoration and sustainability strategies in the face of global environmental change. Biodiversity is shaped by both niche and stochastic processes, however the strength of de...
3,003
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{ "abstract": "Expansion of the genetic code with nonstandard amino acids (nsAAs) has enabled biosynthesis of proteins with diverse new chemistries. However, this technology has been largely restricted to proteins containing a single or few nsAA instances. Here we describe an in vivo evolution approach in a genomical...
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PMC4981452
pmc
8,090
{ "abstract": "Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) is a biopolyester/bioplastic that is produced by a variety of microorganisms to store carbon and increase reducing redox potential. Photosynthetic bacteria convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds using light energy and are known to accumulate PHA. We analyzed PHAs synth...
8,291
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PMC11665918
pmc
8,091
{ "abstract": "Significance Natural physical systems evolve with certain global quantities being minimized or maximized due to physical laws. For example, charges in conductors redistribute to reach electrostatic equilibrium, minimizing electrostatic energy, and gases spread to maximize entropy. This research leverag...
1,114
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PMC6934592
pmc
8,092
{ "abstract": "Sugar refinery washing water (SRWW) contains abundant levels of carbon sources and lower levels of contaminants than other types of wastewater, which makes it ideal for heterotrophic cultivation of microalgae. Here, carbon sources in SRWW were utilized for conversion into the form of value-added docosa...
7,079
35491853
PMC9239258
pmc
8,093
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Cellulose is the most abundant polysaccharide in plant biomass and an important precursor of soil organic matter formation. Fungi play a key role in carbon cycling dynamics because they tend to decompose recalcitrant materials. Here, we applied [ 12 C]cellulose and [ 13 C]cellulose to distingu...
4,959
28522969
PMC5415673
pmc
8,096
{ "abstract": "We introduce Equilibrium Propagation, a learning framework for energy-based models. It involves only one kind of neural computation, performed in both the first phase (when the prediction is made) and the second phase of training (after the target or prediction error is revealed). Although this algorit...
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35465293
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{ "abstract": "Automation of the process of developing biophysical conductance-based neuronal models involves the selection of numerous interacting parameters, making the overall process computationally intensive, complex, and often intractable. A recently reported insight about the possible grouping of currents into...
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PMC10963064
pmc
8,098
{ "abstract": "Abstract Awareness is growing that human health cannot be considered in isolation but is inextricably woven with the health of the environment in which we live. It is, however, under-recognized that the sustainability of human activities strongly relies on preserving the equilibrium of the microbial co...
3,687
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PMC5152751
pmc
8,099
{ "abstract": "Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, has\nalways been considered as a two-step process catalyzed by chemolithoautotrophic\nmicroorganisms oxidizing either ammonia or nitrite. No known nitrifier carries\nout both steps, although complete nitrification should be energetically\n...
2,239
26483827
PMC4591488
pmc
8,100
{ "abstract": "In a field experiment conducted in a Mediterranean area of inner Sicily, durum wheat was inoculated with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), or with both to evaluate their effects on nutrient uptake, plant growth, and the expression of key transporter g...
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31943579
PMC7187462
pmc
8,105
{ "abstract": "Abstract LuxR‐type transcriptional activator proteins frequently regulate the expression of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). With only a fraction of bacterial BGCs being expressed under standard culturing conditions, modulation of LuxRs would provide a powerful approach to activate silent clusters. W...
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37273610
PMC10233695
pmc
8,106
{ "abstract": "Lignocellulosic agricultural waste is an abundant renewable\nfeedstock\nthat can be utilized as a sustainable source of biomass-based plastics.\nIdeally, it is used without discarding any components, including cellulose,\nhemicellulose, and lignin. However, their utilization as lignocellulose-based\npl...
5,663
35542361
PMC9080799
pmc
8,109
{ "abstract": "Bio-electrochemical degradation of pentachlorophenol was carried out in single as well as dual chambered microbial fuel cell (MFC) with simultaneous production of electricity. The maximum cell potential was recorded to be 787 and 1021 mV in single and dual chambered systems respectively. The results pr...
5,927
30401769
PMC6222129
pmc
8,111
{ "abstract": "Bacteria in natural and engineered environments form biofilms that include many different species. Microorganisms rely on a number of different strategies to manage social interactions with other species and to access resources, build biofilm consortia, and optimize growth. For example, Pseudomonas a...
3,698
24504095
PMC3913579
pmc
8,112
{ "abstract": "Due to impressive achievements in genomic research, the number of genome sequences has risen quickly, followed by an increasing number of genes with unknown or hypothetical function. This strongly calls for development of high-throughput methods in the fields of transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolo...
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PMC8812319
pmc
8,114
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT We report the complete genome sequence of Acidithiobacillus ferriphilus GT2, an acidophile isolated from gold mill tailings. The circular genome of GT2 contains 2,489 predicted protein-coding units and a single plasmid. Functional analysis indicates the metabolic potential to oxidize iron an...
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{ "abstract": "Earlier, we discovered that the global regulator, Hha, is related to cell death in biofilms and regulates cryptic prophage genes. Here, we show that Hha induces excision of prophages, CP4-57 and DLP12, by inducing excision genes and by reducing SsrA synthesis. SsrA is a tmRNA that is important for resc...
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PMC4202804
pmc
8,117
{ "abstract": "Chemical conversions mediated by microorganisms, otherwise known as microbial biotransformations, are playing an increasingly important role within the biotechnology industry. Unfortunately, the growth and production of microorganisms are often hampered by a number of stressful conditions emanating fro...
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{ "abstract": "The bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus attaches to the exterior of a Gram-negative prey cell, enters the periplasm, and harvests resources to replicate before lysing the host to find new prey." }
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PMC6158489
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The small molecule cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) is known to affect bacterial gene expression in myriad ways. In Vibrio cholerae in vivo , the presence of c-di-GMP together with the response regulator VpsR results in transcription from P vpsL , a promoter of biofilm biosynthesis genes. VpsR shares...
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PMC6525182
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{ "abstract": "The root economics spectrum (RES), a common hypothesis postulating a tradeoff between resource acquisition and conservation traits, is being challenged by conflicting relationships between root diameter, tissue density (RTD) and root nitrogen concentration (RN). Here, we analyze a global trait dataset ...
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{ "abstract": "Quorum sensing (QS) is a process of bacterial cell-cell communication that relies on the production, detection and population-wide response to extracellular signal molecules called autoinducers. The QS system commonly found in vibrios and photobacteria consists of the CqsA synthase/CqsS receptor pair. ...
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{ "abstract": "Iron-sulfur proteins play essential roles in various biological processes. Their electronic structure and vibrational dynamics are key to their rich chemistry but nontrivial to unravel. Here, the first ultrafast transient absorption and impulsive coherent vibrational spectroscopic (ICVS) studies on 2Fe...
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PMC6744558
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{ "abstract": "Diazotrophic bacteria are an attractive biological alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizers due to their remarkable capacity to fix atmospheric nitrogen gas to ammonium via nitrogenase enzymes. However, how diazotrophic bacteria tailor central carbon catabolism to accommodate the energy requiremen...
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PMC11036807
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Archaea, bacteria, and fungi in the soil are increasingly recognized as determinants of agricultural productivity and sustainability. A crucial step for exploring soil microbiomes with important ecosystem functions is to perform statistical analyses on the potential relationship between microb...
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PMC5776469
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{ "abstract": "Many bacteria are adapted for attaching to surfaces and for building complex\ncommunities, termed biofilms. The biofilm mode of life is predominant in\nbacterial ecology. So too is the exposure of bacteria to ubiquitous viral\npathogens, termed bacteriophages. Although biofilm–phage encounters are\nlik...
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{ "abstract": "Honey bees (" }
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PMC4300079
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{ "abstract": "The last decade has seen a staggering transformation in our knowledge of microbial communities. Here, seven short pieces speculate as to what the next ten years might hold in store." }
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PMC9239210
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Land conversion for intensive agriculture produces unfavorable changes to soil ecosystems, causing global concern. Soil bacterial communities mediate essential terrestrial ecosystem processes, making it imperative to understand their responses to agricultural perturbations. Here, we used high-...
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PMC8246076
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{ "abstract": "Biological electron transfer (ET) across proteins is ubiquitous, such as the notable photosynthesis example, where light-induced charge separation takes place within the reaction center, followed by sequential ET via intramolecular cofactors within the protein. Far from biology, carbon dots (C-Dots) ...
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