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QS-Net: Reconstructing Phylogenetic Networks Based on Quartet and Sextet

Frontiers in Genetics, 2019
Phylogenetic networks are used to estimate evolutionary relationships among biological entities or taxa involving reticulate events such as horizontal gene transfer, hybridization, recombination, and reassortment.
Ming Tan, Haixia Long, Bo Liao, Bo Liao, Zhi Cao, Dawei Yuan, Geng Tian, Jujuan Zhuang, Jialiang Yang, Jialiang Yang   +9 more
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Tapping into the maize root microbiome to identify bacteria that promote growth under chilling conditions [PDF]

, 2020
Background When maize (Zea mays L.) is grown in the Northern hemisphere, its development is heavily arrested by chilling temperatures, especially at the juvenile phase. As some endophytes are beneficial for plants under stress conditions, we analyzed the
Amery, Fien, Beirinckx, Stien, De Tender, Caroline, Debode, Jane, Goormachtig, Sofie, Haegeman, Annelies, Inzé, Dirk, Nelissen, Hilde, Raes, Jeroen, Tito, Raul, Vandenabeele, Steven, Viaene, Tom   +11 more
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Taxonomy of Four Marine Bacterial Strains That Produce Tetrodotoxin [PDF]

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 1990
Four strains of tetrodotoxin-producing bacteria isolated from a red alga and from pufferfish were characterized. Two of these strains are members of the genus Listonella MacDonell and Colwell. The phenotypic characteristics, guanine-plus-cytosine contents, and base sequences of the 16S rRNAs of these organisms indicated that they are members of ...
U, Simidu, K, Kita-Tsukamoto, T, Yasumoto, M, Yotsu   +3 more
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Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12‐binding function

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We show that DUF4465 family proteins, widespread across bacteria from gut microbiomes, hydrothermal vents, and soil, share a common vitamin B12‐binding function. These augmented β‐jellyroll proteins bind vitamin B12 via extended loops. Our findings establish sequence‐diverse DUF4465 proteins as a widespread class of B12‐binding proteins, highlighting ...
Charlea Clarke, Michal Banasik, Rokas Juodeikis, Martin J. Warren, Richard W. Pickersgill   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Amyloidogenic Peptide Fragments Designed From Bacterial Collagen‐like Proteins Form Hydrogel

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study identified amyloidogenic sequence motifs in bacterial collagen‐like proteins and exploited these to design peptides that self‐assemble into β‐sheet fibers and form hydrogels. One hydrogel supported healthy fibroblast growth, showing promise for biocompatible materials. Our work demonstrates that bacterial sequences can be harnessed to create
Vamika Sagar, Xuen J Ng, Lukas Lechel, Ashish Chand Rajwar, Hendrik Bargel, Abhishek A. Jalan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Microbial Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biodiversity [PDF]

, 2019
The great diversity of microbial life is the remaining majorreservoir of unknown biologicaldiversity on Earth. To understand this vast, but largely unperceived diversity with its untappedgenetic, enzymatic and industrial potential, microbial systematics ...
Balboa, Sabela, Romalde, Jesús L., Ventosa Ucero, Antonio   +2 more
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Efficacy and Safety Assessment of 5‐Fluorouracil, Irinotecan and Oxaliplatin‐Loaded Implants in Mouse and Pig Models for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A novel FIRINOX‐loaded implant demonstrates controlled drug release, and potent therapeutic efficacy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma mouse models with safety confirmed in a large‐animal pre‐clinical model. This innovative drug delivery platform offers a promising new treatment approach for non‐resectable, treatment‐resistant pancreatic cancer ...
Samantha J. Wade, Ashna A. Kumar, Samuel O. Nitschke, Paul Joyce, Elahe Minaei, Stephanie E. Reuter Lange, Chelsea Penney, Holly Warren, Ruby Shepherd, Jeremy N. Dinoro, Gordon G. Wallace, Anthony Dosseto, Sameera Ansar, Naila Islam, Alistair Lochhead, George Sharbeen, Phoebe A. Phillips, Morteza Aghmesheh, Wayne J. Hawthorne, Kara L. Vine‐Perrow   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Orphan Phage to a Proposed New Family–The Diversity of N4-Like Viruses

Antibiotics, 2020
Escherichia phage N4 was isolated in 1966 in Italy and has remained a genomic orphan for a long time. It encodes an extremely large virion-associated RNA polymerase unique for bacterial viruses that became characteristic for this group.
Johannes Wittmann, Dann Turner, Andrew D. Millard, Padmanabhan Mahadevan, Andrew M. Kropinski, Evelien M. Adriaenssens   +5 more
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Bacterial community structure and diversity along the halocline of Tyro deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin

Annals of Microbiology, 2022
Purpose Tyro is a deep hypersaline anoxic basin (DHAB) located at the seafloor of the Eastern Mediterranean sea. Tyro hosts a stratified eukaryotic microbiome moving from seawater to the brine, but no reports are available on its prokaryotic community ...
Francesca Mapelli, Marta Barbato, Bessem Chouaia, Valentina Riva, Daniele Daffonchio, Sara Borin   +5 more
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Integrative omics analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa virus PA5oct highlights the molecular complexity of jumbo phages [PDF]

, 2020
Pseudomonas virus vB_PaeM_PA5oct is proposed as a model jumbo bacteriophage to investigate phage-bacteria interactions and is a candidate for phage therapy applications.
Blasdel, Bob G., Briers, Yves, Danis‐Wlodarczyk, Katarzyna, Drulis‐Kawa, Zuzanna, Jang, Ho Bin, Lavigne, Rob, Lood, Cédric, Noben, Jean‐Paul, Noort, Vera, Vandenheuvel, Dieter   +9 more
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