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Nature’s Most Fruitful Threesome: The Relationship between Yeasts, Insects, and Angiosperms

Journal of Fungi, 2022
The importance of insects for angiosperm pollination is widely recognized. In fact, approximately 90% of all plant species benefit from animal-mediated pollination. However, only recently, a third part player in this story has been properly acknowledged.
Eduardo D. Fenner, Thamarys Scapini, Mariana da Costa Diniz, Anderson Giehl, Helen Treichel, Sergio Álvarez-Pérez, Sérgio L. Alves   +6 more
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Microbiome‐blood–brain barrier interactions in aging — mechanisms and therapeutic potential

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Aging reshapes the gut microbiome (↓SCFA‐producing commensals; ↑pro‐inflammatory outputs), shifting circulating metabolites (↓SCFAs; ↑LPS, ↑TMAO, ↑PAA) that act at the BBB to increase nonspecific transcytosis, alter transport, and promote astrocyte reactivity, heightening brain vulnerability.
Daniel Cuervo‐Zanatta, Hari Baskar Balasubramanian, Amir Pasokh, Marietta Zille   +3 more
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Parasitoid load affects plant fitness in a tritrophic system [PDF]

, 2008
Plants attacked by herbivorous insects emit volatile compounds that attract predators or parasitoids of the herbivores. Plant fitness increases when these herbivorous insects are parasitized by solitary parasitoids, but whether gregarious koinobiont ...
Dicke, M., Smallegange, R.C., Blatt, S.E., Loon, J.J.A., van, Harvey, J.A.   +4 more
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Structural and biochemical analysis of a B12 superbinder

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
BtuG proteins are vitamin B12 scavengers in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a dominant human gut bacterium. We present crystal structures of three BtuG homologs bound to cobalamin and its precursor cobinamide, revealing picomolar binding affinities, among the highest known for any natural protein.
Jose M. Martinez Felices, Jacob J. Whittaker, Dirk J. Slotboom, Albert Guskov   +3 more
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Bioinformatics assembly and analysis and annotation of the Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain 5036 genome [PDF]

, 2010
Plants are essential for both human and animal life, several agricultural practices have been adopted or are being developed in order to improve crop production by preventing or mitigating effects of biotic and abiotic stresses faced by plants ...
Manzoor, Shahid
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How animals shape plant evolution: an ecological and evolutionary synthesis

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
This review synthesizes current knowledge on how animals shape plant evolution through a complex network of mutualistic and antagonistic interactions operating across ecological and evolutionary timescales.
Praveen Pandey, Arpita Tripathi, Florin-Dumitru Bora, Ioan Valentin Petrescu-Mag, Ioan Valentin Petrescu-Mag   +4 more
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The ubiquitin system in normal and infected germinal center B cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The ubiquitin system plays a central role in germinal center (GC) B cells, influencing differentiation to long‐lived memory B cells. Oncogenic gammaherpesviruses gain access to memory B cells by establishing latency in GC B cells. Mapping ubiquitin mechanisms in normal and infected GC B cells will define specific molecular circuits in B cells germane ...
Destiny Davis, Lesly Mejia, Emily K Moser   +2 more
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Plant survival and keystone pollinator species in stochastic coextinction models: role of intrinsic dependence on animal-pollination

Scientific Reports, 2017
Coextinction models are useful to understand community robustness to species loss and resilience to disturbances. We simulated pollinator extinctions in pollination networks by using a hybrid model that combined a recently developed stochastic ...
Anna Traveset, Cristina Tur, Víctor M. Eguíluz   +2 more
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Pathogenesis, parasitism and mutualism in the trophic space of microbe-plant interactions [PDF]

, 2010
Microbe host interactions can be categorised as pathogenic, parasitic or mutualistic, but in practice few examples exactly fit these descriptions. New molecular methods are providing insights into the dynamics of microbe host interactions, with most ...
Fitt, BDL, Daniell, T. J., Newton, AC, Adrian C. Newton, Atkins, SD, Fitt, Bruce D.L., Daniell, TJ, Newton, A. C., Simon D. Atkins, Walters, DR, Bruce D.L. Fitt, Tim J. Daniell, Fitt, B. D. L., Daniell, Tim J., Dale R. Walters, Walters, Dale R., Walters, D. R., Atkins, S. D., Newton, Adrian C., Atkins, Simon D.   +19 more
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Invisible but not inaccessible—Revealing transient oligomers formed by intrinsically disordered proteins with solution NMR and complementary methods

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Transient oligomers formed by intrinsically disordered proteins may be ‘invisible’ to direct detection yet remain accessible to solution NMR through equilibrium‐exchange measurements and pressure‐jump experiments. Complementary methods report on mass, stoichiometry, selected distance distributions, morphology, and internal packing.
Martin D. Gelenter, Ad Bax
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