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Application of modified-alginate encapsulated carbonate producing bacteria in concrete: a promising strategy for crack self-healing

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015
Self-healing concrete holds promising benefits to reduce the cost for concrete maintenance and repair as cracks are autonomously repaired without any human intervention.
Jianyun eWang, Arn eMignon, Didier eSnoeck, Virginie eWiktor, Nico eBoon, Nele eDe Belie   +5 more
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Effects of Different Bacteriostats on the Dynamic Germination of Clostridium perfringens Spores

Foods, 2023
Bacteriostats, as chemical substances that inhibit bacterial growth, are widely used in the sterilization process; however, their effects on spindle spores are unclear.
Dong Liang, Shengnan Liu, Miaoyun Li, Yaodi Zhu, Lijun Zhao, Lingxia Sun, Yangyang Ma, Gaiming Zhao   +7 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Surface appendages of bacterial spores [PDF]

Molecular Microbiology, 2006
SummaryBacilli and Clostridia generate dormant, highly resistant cells, called spores, in response to stress. Spores of many species are decorated by morphologically diverse structures of unknown function called appendages that have yet to be studied at the molecular level. In this issue, Walker et al. employ reverse genetics to identify genes encoding
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MFPD: A Multiple Fungal Pathogen Detection Pipeline Across Diverse Habitats

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The MFPD pipeline integrates a comprehensive ITS reference database of fungal pathogens, optimized parameters, and algorithms tailored for both full‐length and subregion sequences that balance accuracy and computational efficiency; it enables high‐throughput, species‐level identification from amplicon sequencing data, supporting large‐scale ...
Yi Shen, Xinrun Yang, Jiabao Yu, Yaozhong Zhang, Tianjie Yang, Yang Gao, Xiaofang Wang, Alexandre Jousset, Waseem Raza, Fang‐Jie Zhao, Qirong Shen, Gaofei Jiang, Zhong Wei, Yangchun Xu   +13 more
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Streptavidins Coordinate Biotin Sequestration and Self‐Resistance Within a Biotin‐Pathway Antibiotic Network

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A conserved genomic region between two streptavidin genes in Streptomyces packages biosynthetic gene clusters for diverse biotin‐pathway antibiotics: acidomycin, stravidin, the new non‐proteinogenic amino acid ANDA, and the new BioA inhibitor α‐methyl‐KAPA.
Sumire Kurosawa, Jingjun Mo, Xiaotong Diao, Feng Xie, Tingting Wang, Haowen Zhao, Dalei Wu, Rolf Müller, Chengzhang Fu   +8 more
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Effects of Aqua-Glycerol Uptake Facilitator Protein GlpF on Spore Germination of Bacillus subtilis

Foods
Killing spores is an important challenge for the development of the food industry. After germination, the resistance of spores disappears and they are more easily killed, which is currently the main strategy for their destruction. Therefore, study of the
Tianlin Cui, Zequn Zhang, Kangyi Mu, Yicong Shi, Fang Chen, Li Dong, Xiaosong Hu   +6 more
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Molecular Engineering Mediated Interfacial Assembly as an Artificial Extracellular Matrix Remolds Bacteria With Enhanced Abiotic Resilience

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A biomimetic artificial extracellular matrix is assembled directly on Pseudomonas fluorescens by co‐assembling amyloid‐like lysozyme and alginate at the cell surface. This conformal nanocoating acts as both a hydration buffer and a physiological priming layer, markedly enhancing desiccation tolerance, seed adhesion, storage stability, and biocontrol ...
Yuanyuan Wang, Zili Jia, Yang Li, Qitao Wang, Shuai Hou, Lei Liu   +5 more
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Subversion of Atypical Mucin Traps by a Spore‐Coat Effector Blocks Cellular Immunity in Drosophila

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
While the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium robertsii can evade insect humoral immunity, its subversion of cellular defenses is still elusive. We identify Eac1 as a spore‐coat protein essential for infecting drosophilids by targeting atypical mucins (Sgf1 and Sgf2), which can entrap spores in a gel matrix and thereby facilitate hemocyte encapsulation.
Shiqin Li, Haimin Chen, Gangqi Fang, Dongxiang Wei, Hongyun Wu, Chen Chen, Song Hong, Chengshu Wang   +7 more
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Hygienic safety of alcohol-based hand disinfectants and skin antiseptics

GMS Hygiene and Infection Control, 2013
[english] Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the overall risk of hand disinfectants and skin antiseptics to become contaminated with bacterial spores throughout the production process and the subsequent in-use period, hence posing a public ...
Steinhauer, Katrin, Meyer, Bernhard, Ostermeyer, Christiane, Rödger, Hans-Joachim, Hintzpeter, Matthias   +4 more
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