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Robotic Materials With Bioinspired Microstructures for High Sensitivity and Fast Actuation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In the review paper, design rationale and approaches for bioinspired sensors and actuators in robotics applications are presented. These bioinspired microstructure strategies implemented in both can improve the performance in several ways. Also, recent ideas and innovations that embed robotic materials with logic and computation with it are part of the
Sakshi Sakshi, Rohit Pratyush Behera, Hongyu Zhou, Yifan Wang, Hortense Le Ferrand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Retromer Regulates Macro‐ and Micro‐Autophagy via Distinct Vacuolar Proteases in the Rice Blast Fungus

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In wild‐type of M. oryzae (Guy11), MoPrb1 and MoPep4 are delivered into the vacuole by the retromer complex to mediate protein degradation and selective autophagy. Their proper localization and catalytic functions are essential for the fungal vegetative growth, conidiation and pathogenicity. However, retromer mutations disrupt this transport, impairing
Dingyang Zhang, Jiexiong Hu, Yonghe Hong, Yuping Fan, Minghui Peng, Yakubu Saddeeq Abubakar, Shujing Liang, Nan Jiang, Lili Lin, Xiaohong Pan, Huakun Zheng, Naweed I. Naqvi, Zonghua Wang, Wenhui Zheng   +13 more
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Structural and Functional Analysis of the CspB Protease Required for Clostridium Spore Germination

PLoS Pathogens, 2013
Spores are the major transmissive form of the nosocomial pathogen Clostridium difficile, a leading cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea worldwide. Successful transmission of C.
C. Adams, B. Eckenroth, E. E. Putnam, S. Doublié, A. Shen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Model‐Guided Systematic Metabolic Engineering for Enhanced Spinosad Biosynthesis in Saccharopolyspora spinosa NHF132

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A genome‐scale model guided the systematic metabolic engineering of Saccharopolyspora spinosa, enabling a 5.5‐fold boost in the green bioinsecticide spinosad to 1.8 g L−1 and establishing an actinomycete framework for complex natural products overproduction.
Shuliu Wang, Yuxin Liu, Qian Zhang, Yue Jiang, Xiaoqian Zeng, Chengyu Zhang, Jiagao Cheng, Weishan Wang, Lixin Zhang, Gao‐Yi Tan   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influences of Lactate on the High-density Fermentation by Bacillus licheniformis HK

Shipin gongye ke-ji
To improve the biomass and spore rate of Bacillus licheniformis HK, influences of lactate on cell growth and metabolism and spore production were investigated at a 20 L bioreactor, and lactate addition was conducted by coupling with pH7.0 from 16 h to 32
Yanmei ZHAO, Jiakang LU, Yueya SHI, Yanting WANG, Yanan HUANG, Xiong CHEN, Zhi WANG   +6 more
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Myxidium volitans sp. nov., a parasite of the gallbladder of the fish, Dactylopterus volitans (Teleostei: Triglidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic coast: morphology and pathology

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2011
Myxidium volitans sp. nov. (Myxozoa: Myxidiidae) parasitizing the hypertrophied green-brownish gallbladder of the teleost Dactylopterus volitans, collected in the Atlantic coast near Niterói, Brazil was described based on ultrastructural studies.
Carlos Azevedo, Graça Casal, Sérgio Carmona São Clemente, Leila Maria Silva Lopes, Patrícia Matos, Abdel Azeem Abdel-Baki, Elsa Oliveira, Edilson Matos   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of sorbic acid on germinant receptor-dependent and -independent germination pathways in Bacillus cereus [PDF]

, 2011
Amino acid- and inosine-induced germination of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 spores was reversibly inhibited in the presence of 3 mM undissociated sorbic acid. Exposure to high hydrostatic pressure, Ca-dipicolinic acid (DPA), and bryostatin, an activator of
Abee, T., Melis, C.C.J., van, Nierop Groot, M.N.   +2 more
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Dual Disruption of the Immune Cytokine Spätzle Facilitates Fungal Infection of Diverse Insect Hosts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The Toll pathway is essential for insect defense against fungal pathogens. This works reports that fungal parasites employ two divergent virulent effectors to target the Toll receptor ligand Spätzle: a metalloprotease degrading it and a hairpin‐like effector hijacking it to block signal transduction. This dual strategy enables the fungus to kill a wide
Shuangxiu Song, Shiqin Li, Yujuan Luo, Dongxiang Wei, Junmei Shang, Hongyun Wu, Gangqi Fang, Chengshu Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation of Clostridioides difficile from a Large Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital Environment

Animals
In veterinary hospitals, the risk of C. difficile nosocomial acquired infections remains largely unknown, and only a few studies surveyed the environmental prevalence of C. difficile in these facilities.
Alexandre S. Borges, Luiza S. Zakia, Serena Yu, Michael G. Surette, Luis G. Arroyo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The PDZ domain of the SpoIVB serine peptidase facilitates multiple functions [PDF]

, 2001
During spore formation in Bacillus subtilis, the SpoIVB protein is a critical component of the sigma (K) regulatory checkpoint. SpoIVB has been shown to be a serine peptidase that is synthesized in the spore chamber and which self-cleaves, releasing ...
Beebe K. D., Cutting S., Cutting S., Cutting S., Cutting S., Daniels D. L., Doyle D. A., Gee S. H., Gomez M., Gomez M., Hillier B. J., Keiler K. C., Kraulis P. J., Lewis A. P., Oke V., Pallen M. J., Pallen M. J., Ponting C. P., Ponting C. P., Resnekov O., Resnekov O., Rudner D. Z., Sali A., Sandman K., Schneider S., Schultz J., Songyang Z., Stricker N. L., Tsunoda S., Wakeley P., Wakeley P.   +30 more
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