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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini, Nicolò Antonelli, Gianluca Molla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Damping of a nanomechanical oscillator strongly coupled to a quantum dot

, 2009
We present theoretical and experimental results on the mechanical damping of an atomic force microscope cantilever strongly coupled to a self-assembled InAs quantum dot.
Bennett, Steven D., Clerk, Aashish A., Cockins, Lynda, Grütter, Peter, Miyahara, Yoichi   +4 more
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Naked cuticle is essential for Drosophila wing development beyond Wingless signaling

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Naked cuticle (Nkd), a Wnt signaling inhibitor, assumes extensive roles in Drosophila wing development. Overexpressing Nkd causes smaller, crumpled wings, while also perturbing multiple signaling pathways and developmental genes. A specific region (R1S) is critical for Nkd's function as a signaling integrator, offering new insights for studying its ...
Rui Wang, Ping Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Pathogenic Neurofibromatosis type 1 gene variants in tumors of non‐NF1 patients and role of R1276

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Somatic variants of the neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene occur across neoplasms without clinical manifestation of the disease NF1. We identified emerging somatic pathogenic NF1 variants and hotspots, for example, at the arginine finger 1276. Those missense variants provide fundamental information about neurofibromin's role in cancer.
Mareike Selig, Swanhild Lohse, Sara Elahi, Nils Hartmann, Stefanie Deckert, Shutian Si, Alexander Desuki, Anja Harder   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum measurement of a mesoscopic spin ensemble

, 2006
We describe a method for precise estimation of the polarization of a mesoscopic spin ensemble by using its coupling to a single two-level system. Our approach requires a minimal number of measurements on the two-level system for a given measurement ...
A. Imamoğlu, C. P. Slichter, D. D’Alessandro, D. J. Wineland, G. Giedke, J. M. Taylor, M. A. Nielsen, M. D. Lukin, R. E. Kalman   +8 more
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TMC4 localizes to multiple taste cell types in the mouse taste papillae

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Transmembrane channel‐like 4 (TMC4), a voltage‐dependent chloride channel, plays a critical role in amiloride‐insensitive salty taste transduction. TMC4 is broadly expressed in all mature taste cell types, suggesting a possible involvement of multiple cell types in this pathway.
Momo Murata, Yoshikazu Saito, Yoichi Kasahara, Wataru Fujii, Takumi Misaka, Tomiko Asakura, Masataka Narukawa   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brain activation monitoring from dot-probe task using functional near-infrared spectrocopy

, 2023
Over the past decade, there has been a notable increase of 13% in mental health issues. Approximately one in five children and adolescents globally suffer from a mental health problem, with suicide ranking as the second most common cause of death for individuals aged 15-29.
openaire   +1 more source

Domain associated with zinc fingers‐containing NF90‐NF45 complex inhibits m6A modification of primary microRNA by suppressing METTL3/14 activity

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NF90–NF45 functions as a negative regulator of methyltransferase‐like 3/14 (METTL3/14)‐mediated N6‐methyladenosine (m6A) modification on primary microRNAs (pri‐miRNAs). NF90–NF45 binds to anti‐oncogenic pri‐miRNAs and inhibits their m6A modification, thereby suppressing the biogenesis of anti‐oncogenic miRNAs.
Takuma Higuchi, Shunsuke Morioka, Keiko Morisawa, Kazutsugu Matsukawa, Shingo Ashida, Takeshi Suzuki, Shuji Sakamoto   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enzymatic degradation of biopolymers in amorphous and molten states: mechanisms and applications

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This review explains how polymer morphology and thermal state shape enzymatic degradation pathways, comparing amorphous and molten biopolymer structures. By integrating structure–reactivity principles with insights from thermodynamics and enzyme engineering, it highlights mechanisms that enable efficient polymer breakdown.
Anđela Pustak, Aleksandra Maršavelski
wiley   +1 more source

Polarization‐resolved femtosecond Vis/IR spectroscopy tailored for resolving weak signals in biological samples using minimal sample volume

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Unique biological samples, such as site‐specific mutant proteins, are available only in limited quantities. Here, we present a polarization‐resolved transient infrared spectroscopy setup with referencing to improve signal‐to‐noise tailored towards tracing small signals. We provide an overview of characterizing the excitation conditions for polarization‐
Clark Zahn, Karsten Heyne
wiley   +1 more source