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Towards inoculant development for Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranean (L.) Verdc) pulse crop production in Namibia

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2023
IntroductionThe globally expanding population, together with climate change, poses a risk to the availability of food for humankind. Bambara groundnut (BGN) (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc) is a neglected, relatively drought-tolerant native legume of Sub ...
Abhijit Sarkar   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a defined compost system for the study of plant-microbe interactions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria can improve plant health by providing enhanced nutrition, disease suppression and abiotic stress resistance, and have potential to contribute to sustainable agriculture. We have developed a sphagnum peat-based compost
Hirsch, P. R.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Burkholderia gladioli strain NGJ1 deploys a prophage tail-like protein for mycophagy

open access: yesMicrobial Cell, 2017
Fungal pathogens are responsible for approximately two third of the infectious plant diseases. Historically they have been associated with several devastating famines, causing death and disabilities in humans.
Rahul Kumar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

XdfA, a novel membrane-associated DedA family protein of Xanthomonas campestris, is required for optimum virulence, maintenance of magnesium, and membrane homeostasis

open access: yesmBio, 2023
Xanthomonas campestris is an important member of the Xanthomonas group of phytopathogens that causes diseases in crucifers. In X. campestris, several virulence-associated functions, including some belonging to unknown predicted functions, have been ...
Yasobanta Padhi, Subhadeep Chatterjee
doaj   +1 more source

Microbiome‐blood–brain barrier interactions in aging — mechanisms and therapeutic potential

open access: yesFEBS 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

MetaFlowTrain: a highly parallelized and modular fluidic system for studying exometabolite-mediated inter-organismal interactions

open access: yesNature Communications
Metabolic fluxes between cells, organisms, or communities drive ecosystem assembly and functioning and explain higher-level biological organization. Exometabolite-mediated inter-organismal interactions, however, remain poorly described due to technical ...
Guillaume Chesneau   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The microbiome in human skin aging

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐related skin changes encompass the well‐known visible phenotypic alterations, together with microbiome dysbiosis and a series of molecular aging hallmarks. These hallmarks characterize not only a fully stablished aged phenotype but also the skin aging process itself.
Manuel Huerta Arana   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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