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{ "abstract": "Abstract \n Clostridium luticellarii is a recently discovered acetogen that is uniquely capable of producing butyric and isobutyric acid from various substrates (e.g. methanol), but it is unclear which factors influence its (iso)butyric acid production from H 2 and CO 2 . We aimed to investigate the ...
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PMC9996816
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Reducing methane\nfrom livestock slurry is one of the quickest ways\nto counteract global warming. A straightforward strategy is to reduce\nslurry retention time inside pig houses by frequent transfer to outside\nstorages, where temperature and therefore microbial activity are lower.\nWe demonstrate th...
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PMC8695775
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{ "abstract": "Hydrogels are a popular class of biomaterial that are used in a number of commercial applications ( e.g. ; contact lenses, drug delivery, and prophylactics). Alginate-based tough hydrogel systems, interpenetrated with acrylamide, reportedly form both ionic and covalent cross-links, giving rise to their...
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PMC8609452
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Significance The physiological and ecological importance of natural products often remains obscured. Here, we report that Streptomyces -derived marginolactones, a distinct group of soil-borne natural products, specifically trigger the formation of gloeocapsoids, previously undescribed protective aggre...
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PMC8421358
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Phenotypic plasticity represents a capacity by which the organism changes its phenotypes in response to environmental stimuli. Despite its pivotal role in adaptive evolution, how phenotypic plasticity is genetically controlled remains elusive. Here, we develop a unified framework for coalescing all sin...
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PMC8157956
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Significance Multicellular bacterial communities called biofilms and pellicles significantly influence medical infections and industrial biofouling. Biofilms and pellicles often act as reservoirs of toxigenic bacteria. Here, we report a fractal wrinkling morphogenesis program that underlies pellicle fo...
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PMC11406059
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Microorganisms play vital roles in sulfur cycling through the oxidation of elemental sulfur and reduction of sulfite. These metabolisms are catalyzed by dissimilatory sulfite reductases (Dsr) functioning in either the reductive or reverse, oxidative direction. Dsr-mediated sulfite reduction is...
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PMC4047535
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Ocean acidification driven by rising levels of CO 2 impairs calcification, threatening coral reef growth. Predicting how corals respond to CO 2 requires a better understanding of how calcification is controlled. Here we show how spatial variations in the pH of the internal calcifying fluid (pH cf ) i...
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PMC11489214
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{ "abstract": "Salt marshes represent a unique ecosystem at the marine-terrestrial boundary of shallow protected coastlines. Microarthropods form an essential component of soil food webs, but how they colonize new intertidal habitats is little understood. By establishing two experimental systems without animals, we i...
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PMC4094786
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{ "abstract": "Biosynthesis of liquid fuels and biomass-based building block chemicals from microorganisms have been regarded as a competitive alternative route to traditional. Zymomonas mobilis possesses a number of desirable characteristics for its special Entner-Doudoroff pathway, which makes it an ideal platfor...
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PMC8227142
pmc
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{ "abstract": "This study reports for the first time the preparation of an electrospun microfibrous mat of PIM-EA-TB. The electrospinning was carried out using a chloroform/n-Propyl-lactate (n-PL) binary solvent system with different chloroform/nPL ratios, in order to control the morphology of the microfibres. With p...
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PMC9854848
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Ammonia is an important chemical that is widely used in fertilizer applications as well as in the steel, chemical, textile, and pharmaceutical industries, which has attracted attention as a potential fuel. Thus, approaches to achieve sustainable ammonia production have attracted considerable attention....
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PMC5625732
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The genomic era has revolutionized research on secondary metabolites and bioinformatics methods have in recent years revived the antibiotic discovery process after decades with only few new active molecules being identified. New computational tools are driven by genomics and metabolomics analysis, and ...
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PMC9978112
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{ "abstract": "Microbial ammonia oxidation is the first and usually rate limiting step in nitrification and is therefore an important step in the global nitrogen cycle. Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) play an important role in nitrification. Here, we report a comprehensive analysis of biomass productivity and the phy...
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PMC9458709
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{ "abstract": "Light harvesting is fundamental for production of ATP and reducing equivalents for CO 2 fixation during photosynthesis. However, electronic energy transfer (EET) through a photosystem can harm the photosynthetic apparatus when not balanced with CO 2 . Here, we show that CO 2 binding to the light-harv...
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PMC4101577
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Intracellular habitats have been invaded by a remarkable diversity of organisms, and strategies employed to successfully reside in another species' cellular space are varied. Common selective pressures may be experienced in symbioses involving phototrophic symbionts and heterotrophic hosts. Here I refi...
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PMC7306483
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Calderihabitans maritimus KKC1 is a thermophilic, carbon monoxide (CO)-utilizing, hydrogen-evolving bacterium that harbors seven cooS genes for anaerobic CO dehydrogenases and six hyd genes for [NiFe] hydrogenases and capable of using a variety of electron acceptors coupled to CO oxidation. To und...
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PMC4406151
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Microorganisms can be engineered for the production of chemicals utilized in the polymer industry. However many such target compounds inhibit microbial growth and might correspondingly limit production levels. Here, we focus on compounds that are precursors to bioplastics, specifically styrene and repr...
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{ "abstract": "Since its initial discovery as an allosteric factor regulating cellulose biosynthesis in Gluconacetobacter xylinus, the list of functional outputs regulated by c-di-GMP has grown. We have focused this article on one of these c-di-GMP-regulated processes, namely, biofilm formation in the organism Pseudo...
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PMC3622252
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{ "abstract": "Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are increasingly appreciated for their contributions to primary productivity through promotion of growth and triggering of induced systemic resistance in plants. Here we focus on the beneficial effects of one particular species of PGPR ( Pseudomonas fluoresce...
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PMC3091320
pmc
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{ "abstract": "A high-resolution genetic linkage map for the coral Acropora millepora is constructed and compared with other metazoan genomes, revealing syntenic blocks.", "conclusion": "Conclusions A genetic linkage map, predominantly based on SNP markers derived from the transcriptome, has been constructed for a ...
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PMC11523686
pmc
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{ "abstract": "This concept paper gives a narrative about intelligence from insects to the human brain, showing where evolution may have been influenced by the structures in these simpler organisms. The ideas also come from the author’s own cognitive model, where a number of algorithms have been developed over time a...
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PMC7062081
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Biofilms offer an excellent example of ecological interaction among bacteria. Temporal and spatial oscillations in biofilms are an emerging topic. In this paper, we describe the metabolic oscillations in Bacillus subtilis biofilms by applying the smallest theoretical chemical reaction system showing ...
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PMC9590576
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Woody plant species represent an invaluable reserve of biochemical diversity to which metabolic engineering can be applied to satisfy the need for commodity and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and renewable energy. Woody plants are particularly promising for this application due to their low inpu...
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PMC10523507
pmc
9,262
{ "abstract": "Significance Long-term ecological stability plays a critical role in maintaining ecosystem functioning and sustainable delivery of ecosystem services in a varying world. While natural ecological communities can maintain stability through various mechanisms, little is known about how climate change migh...
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PMC10243432
pmc
9,263
{ "abstract": "Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a very promising technology addressing the challenge of carbon dioxide recycling into organic compounds, which might serve as building blocks for the (bio)chemical industry. However, poor process control and understanding of fundamental aspects such as the microbial ...
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PMC10139955
pmc
9,266
{ "abstract": "Highlights • Methanobrevibacter boviskoreani JHI T , a rumen methanogen, can grow without pressurised hydrogen, using a variety of short chain alcohols. • Results demonstrate that in the absence of hydrogen, JHI T can use ethanol, propanol and butanol but not methanol, as a source of reducing potenti...
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PMC10861976
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Due to soils from arid regions with high lime and low organic matter content, farmers receive low yields along with high costs of agricultural inputs, which causes them to look for a solution. In this context, Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) have great potential to reduce fertilizer use by mediating...
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PMC8129112
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Plants must deal with harsh environmental conditions when colonizing abandoned copper mine tailings. We hypothesized that the presence of a native microbial community can improve the colonization of the pioneer plant, Baccharis linearis , in soils from copper mining tailings. Plant growth and microbia...
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PMC2776406
pmc
9,272
{ "abstract": "Explaining the evolution of cooperative behavior is a long-standing problem for which much theory has been developed. A recent paper in BMC Biology tests central elements of this theory by manipulating a simple bacterial experimental system. This approach is useful for assessing the principles of soc...
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{ "abstract": "One of the prerequisites of successful address delivery is controlling the release of encapsulated drugs. The new method of bacterial spore encapsulation in polyelectrolyte microcapsules allows for degrading the nanoscale membrane shell of microcapsules. The possibility of encapsulating spore forms of ...
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PMC7192501
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Biological networks across scales exhibit hierarchical organization that may constrain network function. Yet, understanding how these hierarchies arise due to the operational constraint of the networks and whether they impose limits to molecular phenotypes remains elusive. Here we show that metabolic n...
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PMC4824201
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{ "abstract": "Facilitating the evolution of new gene functions, gene duplication is a major mechanism driving evolutionary innovation. Gene family expansions relevant to host/symbiont interactions are increasingly being discovered in eukaryotes that host endosymbiotic microbes. Such discoveries entice speculation th...
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PMC10487350
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{ "abstract": "SUMMARY Bioengineering devices and systems will become a practical and versatile technology in society when sustainability issues, primarily pertaining to their efficiency, sustainability, and human-machine interaction, are fully addressed. It has become evident that technological paths should not rely...
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PMC3510206
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Fishing can trigger trophic cascades that alter community structure and dynamics and thus modify ecosystem attributes. We combined ecological data of sea urchin and macroalgal abundance with fishery data of spiny lobster ( Panulirus interruptus ) landings to evaluate whether: (1) patterns in the abunda...
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{ "abstract": "Microalgae have reemerged as organisms of prime biotechnological interest due to their ability to synthesize a suite of valuable chemicals. To harness the capabilities of these organisms, we need a comprehensive systems-level understanding of their metabolism, which can be fundamentally achieved throug...
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PMC9884966
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{ "abstract": "Introduction Wood formation is closely related to lignin biosynthesis. Cinnamoyl-CoA reductase (CCR) catalyzes the conversion of cinnamoyl-CoA to cinnamaldehydes, which is the initiation of the lignin biosynthesis pathway and a crucial point in the manipulation of associated traits. Liriodendron chinen...
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{ "abstract": "Abstract The biological nitrogen cycle is driven by a plethora of reactions transforming nitrogen compounds between various redox states. Here, we investigated the metagenomic potential for nitrogen cycle of the in situ microbial community in an oligotrophic, brackish environment of the Bothnian Sea se...
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{ "abstract": "1. Classical studies of succession, largely dominated by plant community studies, focus on intrinsic drivers of change in community composition, such as interspecific competition and changes to the abiotic environment. They often do not consider extrinsic drivers of colonization, such as seasonal pheno...
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PMC9387530
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{ "abstract": "Conventional bioprocess models for wastewater treatment\nare based\non aggregated bulk biomass concentrations and do not incorporate microbial\nphysiological diversity. Such a broad aggregation of microbial functional\ngroups can fail to predict ecosystem dynamics when high levels of\nphysiological div...
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PMC8041867
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{ "abstract": "Summary This article proposed a high-performance triboelectric-electromagnetic hybrid wind energy harvester (WEH). By adopting the revolution and rotation movements of tapered rollers, which serve as both the rotor of the electromagnetic generator (EMG) part and freestanding layers of the triboelectric...
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PMC7573125
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{ "abstract": "Aldehydes are a class of highly versatile chemicals that can undergo a wide range of chemical reactions and are in high demand as starting materials for chemical manufacturing. Biologically, fatty aldehydes can be produced from fatty acyl-CoA by the action of fatty acyl-CoA reductases. The aldehydes pr...
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PMC5980998
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{ "abstract": "Graphical abstract", "conclusion": "4 Conclusion This study has demonstrated that the supplementation of appropriate GAC dosage could accelerate the syntrophic degradation of propionate and butyrate efficiently under heavy organic load. Specifically, the degradation rates of propionate and butyrate w...
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PMC2375017
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9,294
{ "abstract": "A global analysis of Pseudomonas putida gene expression performed during the interaction with maize roots revealed how a bacterial population adjusts its genetic program to the specific conditions of this lifestyle.", "conclusion": "Conclusion The current study constitutes, to our knowledge, the fi...
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PMC5784704
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{ "abstract": "Background Styrene is a versatile commodity petrochemical used as a monomer building-block for the synthesis of many useful polymers. Although achievements have been made on styrene biosynthesis in microorganisms, several bottleneck problems limit factors for further improvement in styrene production. ...
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PMC11579442
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{ "abstract": "Summary \n Forest soils play a pivotal role as global carbon (C) sinks, where the dynamics of soil organic matter (SOM) are significantly influenced by ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi. While correlations between ECM fungal community composition and soil C storage have been documented, the underlying mechan...
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PMC11740958
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{ "abstract": "Many bacteria live in polymeric fluids, such as mucus, environmental polysaccharides, and extracellular polymers in biofilms. However, laboratory studies typically focus on cells in polymer-free fluids. Here, we show that interactions with polymers shape a fundamental feature of bacterial life—how they...
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{ "abstract": "In Vibrio species, quorum sensing controls gene expression for numerous group behaviors, including bioluminescence production, biofilm formation, virulence factor secretion systems, and competence. The LuxR/HapR master quorum-sensing regulators activate expression of hundreds of genes in response to ch...
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PMC8693375
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9,304
{ "abstract": "The slippery liquid infused porous surface has developed into a potential technology to solve the problem of poor durability in corrosion resistance. Herein, a kind of slippery liquid infused porous surface is created on 7075 aluminum alloy by wire electrical discharge machining for corrosion resistant...
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PMC11737406
pmc
9,305
{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The enormous computational requirements and unsustainable resource consumption associated with massive parameters of large language models and large vision models have given rise to challenging issues. Here, we propose an interpretable ‘small model’ framework characterized by only a single cor...
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{ "abstract": "Engineering the utilization of non-native substrates, or synthetic heterotrophy, in proven industrial microbes such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae represents an opportunity to valorize plentiful and renewable sources of carbon and energy as inputs to bioprocesses. We previously demonstrated that activatio...
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PMC9037623
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{ "abstract": "Through the special chemical structure of dopamine (DA), superhydrophobic polyester (PET) fabric was fabricated by introducing the low surface energy substance hexadecyltrimethoxysilane (HDS) into the PET fabric and chelating Fe ions with phenolic hydroxyl groups of polydopamine (PDA) to form a rough s...
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PMC11963962
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Cortical neuronal activity varies over time and across repeated trials, yet consistently represents stimulus features. The dynamical mechanism underlying this reliable representation and computation remains elusive. This study uncovers a mechanism for reliable neural information processing, leveraging ...
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31477760
PMC6718658
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{ "abstract": "Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009 is a purple non-sulfur bacterium that can fix carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and nitrogen or break down organic compounds for its carbon and nitrogen requirements. Light, inorganic, and organic compounds can all be used for its source of energy. Excess electrons produced duri...
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{ "abstract": "Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) has emerged as a powerful tool in basic microbial research and strain development. In the context of metabolic science and engineering, it has been applied to study gene knockout responses, expand substrate ranges, improve tolerance to process conditions, and to impr...
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{ "abstract": "The adapter protein MecA targets the transcription factor ComK for degradation by the ClpC/ClpP proteolytic complex, thereby negatively regulating competence in Bacillus subtilis. Here we show that MecA also decreases the frequency of transitions to the sporulation pathway as well as the expression of ...
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{ "abstract": "The automation of liquid-handling routines offers great potential for fast, reproducible, and labor-reduced biomaterial fabrication but also requires the development of special protocols. Competitive systems demand for a high degree in miniaturization and parallelization while maintaining flexibility r...
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PMC5812545
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Deeper sequencing and improved bioinformatics in conjunction with single-cell and metagenomic approaches continue to illuminate undercharacterized environmental microbial communities. This has propelled the ‘who is there, and what might they be doing’ paradigm to the uncultivated and has alrea...
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PMC5882818
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{ "abstract": "This study implements temporal and spatial appraisals on the operational performance and corresponding microbial community structure of a full-scale advanced anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed (AnaEG) which was used to treat low organic loading starch processing wastewater. Results showed stable tr...
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PMC10469762
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Microbes commonly organize into communities consisting of hundreds of species involved in complex interactions with each other. 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) amplicon profiling provides snapshots that reveal the phylogenies and abundance profiles of these microbial communities. These snapshots,...
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PMC3656021
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{ "abstract": "Microbial populations adapt to environmental fluctuations through random switching of fitness-related traits in individual cells. This increases the likelihood that a subpopulation will be adaptive in a future milieu. However, populations are particularly challenged when several environment factors cha...
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PMC9940878
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Vascular plants reinforce the cell walls of the different xylem cell types with lignin phenolic polymers. Distinct lignin chemistries differ between each cell wall layer and each cell type to support their specific functions. Yet the mechanisms controlling the tight spatial localization of spe...
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27774389
PMC5057325
pmc
9,326
{ "abstract": "A piezoelectric paper based on BaTiO 3 (BTO) nanoparticles and bacterial cellulose (BC) with excellent output properties for application of nanogenerators (NGs) is reported. A facile and scalable vacuum filtration method is used to fabricate the piezoelectric paper. The BTO/BC piezoelectric paper base...
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30429841
PMC6220076
pmc
9,327
{ "abstract": "Fertilizer application has contributed substantially to increasing crop yield. Despite the important role of soil fungi in agricultural production, we still have limited understanding of the complex responses of fungal taxonomic and functional groups to organic and mineral fertilization in long term. H...
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PMC10725675
pmc
9,328
{ "abstract": "An increased abundance of macroalgae has been observed in coral reefs damaged by climate change and local environmental stressors. Macroalgae have a sublethal effect on corals that includes the inhibition of their growth, development, and reproduction. Thus, this study explored the effects of the macro...
4,549
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PMC5738337
pmc
9,329
{ "abstract": "Photosynthesis of microalgae enables conversion of light energy into chemical energy to produce biomass and biomaterials. However, the efficiency of this process must be enhanced, and truncation of light-harvesting complex (LHC) has been suggested to improve photosynthetic efficiency. We reported an EM...
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PMC5007514
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9,330
{ "abstract": "The NC10 phylum is a candidate phylum of prokaryotes and is considered important in biogeochemical cycles and evolutionary history. NC10 members are as-yet-uncultured and are difficult to enrich, and our knowledge regarding this phylum is largely limited to the first species ‘ Candidatus Methylomirabi...
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PMC4583632
pmc
9,331
{ "abstract": "The soil-mousse surrounding a geothermal spring was analyzed for bacterial and archaeal diversity using 16S rRNA gene amplicon metagenomic sequencing which revealed the presence of 18 bacterial phyla distributed across 109 families and 219 genera. Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, and the Deinococcus-Thermus...
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{ "abstract": "Engineered biological systems such as genetic circuits and microbial cell factories have promised to solve many challenges in the modern society. However, the artisanal processes of research and development are slow, expensive, and inconsistent, representing a major obstacle in biotechnology and bioeng...
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PMC10432169
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{ "abstract": "Microbial electrochemical technologies have been extensively employed for phenol removal. Yet, previous research has yielded inconsistent results, leaving uncertainties regarding the feasibility of phenol degradation under strictly anaerobic conditions using anodes as sole terminal electron acceptors. ...
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PMC6965313
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{ "abstract": "Plants manipulate their rhizosphere community in a species and even a plant life stage-dependent manner. In essence plants select, promote and (de)activate directly the local bacterial and fungal community, and indirectly representatives of the next trophic level, protists and nematodes. By doing so, p...
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33441960
PMC7806881
pmc
9,336
{ "abstract": "Connectivity is fundamentally important for shaping the resilience of complex human and natural networks when systems are disturbed. Ecosystem resilience is, in part, shaped by the spatial arrangement of habitats, the permeability and fluxes between them, the stabilising functions performed by organism...
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PMC10983722
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Understanding the characteristics and structure of populations is fundamental to comprehending ecosystem processes and evolutionary adaptations. While the study of animal and plant populations has spanned a few centuries, microbial populations have been under scientific scrutiny for a considerably shor...
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PMC7835748
pmc
9,340
{ "abstract": "Flexible electronic devices have gained significant interest due to their different potential applications. Herein, we report highly flexible, stretchable, and sensitive sensors made of sprayed CNT layer, sandwiched between two polymer layers. A facile fabrication process was employed in which the CNT ...
970
34430808
PMC8365361
pmc
9,341
{ "abstract": "Summary Soil-borne diseases cause serious economic losses in agriculture. Managing diseases with microbial preparations is an excellent approach to soil-borne disease prevention. However, microbial preparations often exhibit unstable effects, limiting their large-scale application. This review introduc...
2,514
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PMC9572252
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Recently, an unprecedented growth in the internet of things (IoT) is being observed, which is becoming the main driver for the entire semiconductor industry. Reliable maintenance and servicing of the IoT is becoming challenging, knowing that the IoT nodes outnumber the human population by a factor of s...
5,463
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PMC10349831
pmc
9,344
{ "abstract": "Predicting ecosystem function is critical to assess and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Quantitative predictions of microbially mediated ecosystem processes are typically uninformed by microbial biodiversity. Yet new tools allow the measurement of taxon-specific traits within natural microbial ...
5,182
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PMC7923039
pmc
9,346
{ "abstract": "Genome-scale metabolic models are of high interest in a number of different research fields. Flux balance analysis (FBA) and other mathematical methods allow the prediction of the steady-state behavior of metabolic networks under different environmental conditions. However, many existing applications f...
2,308
35888885
PMC9324494
pmc
9,347
{ "abstract": "In recent years, microbubbles have been widely used in the field of microrobots due to their unique properties. Microbubbles can be easily produced and used as power sources or tools of microrobots, and the bubbles can even serve as microrobots themselves. As a power source, bubbles can propel microrob...
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PMC6640087
pmc
9,348
{ "abstract": "Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) form symbioses with the roots of most plant species, including cereals. AMF can increase the uptake of nutrients including nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), and of silicon (Si) as well as increase host resistance to various stresses. Plants can simultaneously interact ...
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{ "abstract": "Marine microorganisms are presented with unique challenges to obtain essential metal ions required to survive and thrive in the ocean. The production of organic ligands to complex transition metal ions is one strategy to both facilitate uptake of specific metals, such as iron, and to mitigate the poten...
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PMC8296010
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The biological reduction of ferrous ethylenediaminetetraacetic\nacid (EDTA-Fe II -NO and EDTA-Fe III ) is an important\nprocess in the integrated electrobiofilm reduction method, and it\nhas been regarded as a promising alternative method for removing NO x from industrial boiler flue gas. EDTA-Fe II -...
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{ "abstract": "The goal of this work was to synthesize gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using electrode-respiring Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms. We found that AuNPs are generated in the extracellular matrix of Geobacter biofilms and have an average particle size of 20nm. The formation of AuNPs was verified using TEM, F...
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PMC9928423
pmc
9,361
{ "abstract": "Antibiotic consumption and its abuses have been historically and repeatedly pointed out as the major driver of antibiotic resistance emergence and propagation. However, several examples show that resistance may persist despite substantial reductions in antibiotic use, and that other factors are at stak...
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{ "abstract": "We consider the stochastic patterns of a system of communicating, or coupled, self-propelled particles in the presence of noise and communication time delay. For sufficiently large environmental noise, there exists a transition between a translating state and a rotating state with stationary center of ...
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{ "abstract": "Precise flow control in microfluidic chips is important for many biochemical assays and experiments at microscale. While several technologies for controlling fluid flow have been implemented either on- or off-chip, these can provide either high-speed or high-precision control, but seldom could accompli...
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PMC3048397
pmc
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{ "abstract": "The distribution of the number of links per species, or degree distribution, is widely used as a summary of the topology of complex networks. Degree distributions have been studied in a range of ecological networks, including both mutualistic bipartite networks of plants and pollinators or seed dispers...
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PMC5026421
pmc
9,367
{ "abstract": "Zeolite-catalyzed acylation is used for selective formation of C–C bonds and could have applications in bioenergy.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Heteroaromatic functionalization via Friedel-Crafts acylation to attach a carbonyl group to the aromatic rings is important for the production of several ...
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PMC3706605
pmc
9,369
{ "abstract": "Fungi regulate key nutrient cycling processes in many forest ecosystems, but their diversity and distribution within and across ecosystems are poorly understood. Here, we examine the spatial distribution of fungi across a boreal and tropical ecosystem, focusing on ectomycorrhizal fungi. We analyzed fun...
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PMC4455696
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{ "abstract": "Background Lignin plays an important role in plant structural support and water transport, and is considered one of the hallmarks of land plants. The recent discovery of lignin or its precursors in various algae has raised questions on the evolution of its biosynthetic pathway, which could be much more...
9,113
32402068
PMC7348690
pmc
9,373
{ "abstract": "Abstract The origin of plastids (chloroplasts) by endosymbiosis stands as one of the most important events in the history of eukaryotic life. The genetic, biochemical, and cell biological integration of a cyanobacterial endosymbiont into a heterotrophic host eukaryote approximately a billion years ago ...
1,483
37520357
PMC10379653
pmc
9,376
{ "abstract": "Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is an emerging electrochemical technology currently being researched as a CO 2 sequestration method to address climate change. MES can convert CO 2 from pollution or waste materials into various carbon compounds with low energy requirements using electrogenic microbes...
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23100857
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9,377
{ "abstract": "Marine mussels utilize a variety of DOPA-rich proteins for purposes of underwater adhesion, as well as for creating hard and flexible surface coatings for their tough and stretchy byssal fibers. In the present study, moderately strong, yet reversible wet adhesion between the protective mussel coating p...
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31001240
PMC6454187
pmc
9,379
{ "abstract": "Most microbes can produce surface-associated or suspended aggregates called biofilms, which are encased within a biopolymer-rich matrix. The biofilm matrix provides structural integrity to the aggregates and shields the resident cells against environmental stressors, including antibiotic treatment. Mic...
3,176
38805271
PMC11161743
pmc
9,380
{ "abstract": "Significance Light distribution within algal cultures is one of the primary limitations to scalable and efficient biomass growth, a pertinent issue given the increasing interest in nonplanktonic growth methods, such as biofilms. Within these, cells experience uneven illumination via either overexposure...
1,836
21887266
PMC3162558
pmc
9,382
{ "abstract": "We propose a previously unrecognized kind of informational entity in the brain that is capable of acting as the basis for unlimited hereditary variation in neuronal networks. This unit is a path of activity through a network of neurons, analogous to a path taken through a hidden Markov model. To prove ...
15,042
31942258
PMC6955109
pmc
9,384
{ "abstract": "Background Interactions among species are a driving force of community structure. The species composition of animal-plant interaction networks can be highly dynamic on a temporal scale, even though the general network structure is usually not altered. However, few studies have examined how interaction ...
7,016
30190707
PMC6115492
pmc
9,385
{ "abstract": "Marine sediments are important sites for global biogeochemical cycling, mediated by macrofauna and microalgae. However, it is the microorganisms that drive these key processes. There is strong evidence that coastal benthic habitats will be affected by changing environmental variables (rising temperatur...
6,070
26824062
PMC4730847
pmc
9,386
{ "abstract": "A bidirectional freezing method to assemble ceramic particles into porous nacre-like scaffolds aligned over centimeter-scales.", "conclusion": "CONCLUSIONS We have developed a bidirectional freeze-casting technique to fabricate large-scale (centimeter-scale) lamellar structures. Using HA powder, we i...
1,444
25706146
PMC4338226
pmc
9,390
{ "abstract": "Methanosarcina acetivorans , considered a strict anaerobic archaeon, was cultured in the presence of 0.4–1% O 2 (atmospheric) for at least 6 months to generate air-adapted cells; further, the biochemical mechanisms developed to deal with O 2 were characterized. Methane production and protein content,...
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