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The Computer‐Assisted Sequence Annotation (CASA) workflow for enzyme discovery [PDF]

Applications in Plant Sciences
Premise With the advent of inexpensive nucleic acid sequencing and automated annotation at the level of basic functionality, the central problem of enzyme discovery is no longer finding active sequences, it is determining which ones are suitable for ...
Gemma R. Takahashi, Franchesca M. Cumpio, Carter T. Butts, Rachel W. Martin   +3 more
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Expression and Refolding of the Plant Chitinase From Drosera capensis for Applications as a Sustainable and Integrated Pest Management [PDF]

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021
Recently, the study of chitinases has become an important target of numerous research projects due to their potential for applications, such as biocontrol pest agents.
Igor G. Sinelnikov, Niklas E. Siedhoff, Andrey M. Chulkin, Ivan N. Zorov, Ivan N. Zorov, Ulrich Schwaneberg, Ulrich Schwaneberg, Mehdi D. Davari, Olga A. Sinitsyna, Larisa A. Shcherbakova, Arkady P. Sinitsyn, Arkady P. Sinitsyn, Aleksandra M. Rozhkova   +12 more
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Water Cannot Activate Traps of the Carnivorous Sundew Plant Drosera capensis: On the Trail of Darwin’s 150-Years-Old Mystery [PDF]

Plants, 2023
In his famous book Insectivorous plants, Charles Darwin observed that the bending response of tentacles in the carnivorous sundew plant Drosera rotundifolia was not triggered by a drop of water, but rather the application of many dissolved chemicals or ...
Andrej Pavlovič, Ondřej Vrobel, Petr Tarkowski   +2 more
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The Droserasin 1 PSI: A Membrane-Interacting Antimicrobial Peptide from the Carnivorous Plant Drosera capensis [PDF]

Biomolecules, 2020
The Droserasins, aspartic proteases from the carnivorous plant Drosera capensis, contain a 100-residue plant-specific insert (PSI) that is post-translationally cleaved and independently acts as an antimicrobial peptide.
Marc A. Sprague-Piercy, Jan C. Bierma, Marquise G. Crosby, Brooke P. Carpenter, Gemma R. Takahashi, Joana Paulino, Ivan Hung, Rongfu Zhang, John E. Kelly, Natalia Kozlyuk, Xi Chen, Carter T. Butts, Rachel W. Martin   +12 more
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Quantification of Protein Uptake by Endocytosis in Carnivorous Nepenthales [PDF]

Plants, 2023
Carnivorous plants adsorb prey-derived nutrients partly by endocytosis. This study quantifies endocytosis in Drosophyllum lusitanicum, Drosera capensis, Drosera roseana, Dionaea muscipula and Nepenthes × ventrata.
Caroline Ivesic, Stefanie Krammer, Marianne Koller-Peroutka, Aicha Laarouchi, Daniela Gruber, Ingeborg Lang, Irene K. Lichtscheidl, Wolfram Adlassnig   +7 more
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Biomimetic, Programmable, and Part‐by‐Part Maneuverable Single‐Body Shape‐Morphing Film

Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023
Recently, shape‐morphing films (SMFs) have been actively researched due to their diverse applications such as soft robotics, soft grippers, and healthcare/wearable devices.
Yongrok Jeong, Junseong Ahn, Ji-Hwan Ha, Jiwoo Ko, Soon-Hyoung Hwang, Sohee Jeon, Munjeong Bok, Jun-Ho Jeong, Inkyu Park   +8 more
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Sequence comparison, molecular modeling, and network analysis predict structural diversity in cysteine proteases from the Cape sundew, Drosera capensis [PDF]

Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2016
Carnivorous plants represent a so far underexploited reservoir of novel proteases with potentially useful activities. Here we investigate 44 cysteine proteases from the Cape sundew, Drosera capensis, predicted from genomic DNA sequences. D.
Carter T. Butts, Xuhong Zhang, John E. Kelly, Kyle W. Roskamp, Megha H. Unhelkar, J. Alfredo Freites, Seemal Tahir, Rachel W. Martin   +7 more
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Spatially resolved detection of small molecules from press-dried plant tissue using MALDI imaging. [PDF]

Appl Plant Sci, 2023
Abstract Premise Matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI‐MSI) is a chemical imaging method that can visualize spatial distributions of particular molecules. Plant tissue imaging has so far mostly used cryosectioning, which can be impractical for the preparation of large‐area imaging samples, such as full flower ...
Long ZG, Le JV, Katz BB, Lopez BG, Tenenbaum ED, Semmling B, Schmidt RJ, Grün F, Butts CT, Martin RW.   +9 more
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Are carnivorous plants mixotrophic? [PDF]

New Phytol
New Phytologist, Volume 247, Issue 2, Page 445-449, July 2025.
Lin Q, Yin SS, Mata-Rosas M, Ibarra-Laclette E, Renner T.   +4 more
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Plastid Genome Evolution Across the Roridulaceae-Sarraceniaceae Clade (Ericales) in Relation to Carnivorous Strategies. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
The Roridulaceae–Sarraceniaceae clade exhibits strikingly divergent carnivorous strategies, providing a framework to examine how trophic shifts influence plastid genome evolution. Comparative plastome analyses reveal recurrent ndh gene disruption across species, while Roridula gorgonias shows pronounced genomic restructuring, including elevated ...
Chang S, Wang P, Han W, Yu B, Li C.
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