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A pilot study of the association between maternal mid-pregnancy cholesterol and oxysterol concentrations and labor duration

Lipids in Health and Disease, 2023
Background Previous animal model studies have highlighted a role for cholesterol and its oxidized derivatives (oxysterols) in uterine contractile activity, however, a lipotoxic state associated with hypercholesterolemia may contribute to labor dystocia ...
Todd C. Rideout, Jaclyn Wallace, Xiaozhong Wen, Vanessa M. Barnabei, Kai Ling Kong, Richard W. Browne   +5 more
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Enhanced Antibacterial Properties of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles via Curvature Modulation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Lipid nanostructured particles with increasing negative Gaussian curvature progress from vesicles to P‐cubosomes and D‐cubosomes. This curvature hierarchy enhances interaction with bacterial membranes, promotes membrane remodeling and leakage, and potentiates daptomycin activity against MRSA.
Xiangfeng Lai, Shuhong Wang, Chenguang Ding, Xenia Kostoulias, Anton P. Le Brun, Hsien‐Yi Hsu, Jhih‐Hang Jiang, Yajun Wang, Richard A. Strugnell, Anton Y. Peleg, Hsin‐Hui Shen   +10 more
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An Artificially Selected Cytokinin‐Pathway Transcription Factor Balances Soybean Yield and Pathogen Resistance

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A cytokinin pathway transcription factor, RR2b, was artificially selected during soybean domestication and improvement based on its differential transcriptional activity, which correlates with ATT repeat polymorphisms in its promoter. RR2b balances yield and defense by fine‐tuning its expression level and offers a promising target for decoupling trade ...
Qun Ma, Yaqing Chen, Yiwen Gao, Xueting Hu, Qun Yang, Yucheng Liu, Peiyong Xin, Jijun Yan, Jinfang Chu, Lei Li, Zhixi Tian, Bo Ren   +11 more
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Discovery of a Reversible Sub‐Picomolar Thrombin Inhibitor Using DCC

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
An ultrapotent yet fully reversible trivalent thrombin inhibitor discovered through screening a large dynamic combinatorial library (DCL) of 125 000 members of self‐assembled fragments. The innovative approach leverages size‐exclusion‐based affinity selection, coupled with MALDI‐TOF mass spectrometry readout, enabling the full workflow to be completed ...
Millicent Dockerill, Richard J. Payne, Nicolas Winssinger   +2 more
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Revolutionising Agricultural Sustainability: New ‘Furrow Tillage’ can Mitigate Short‐Term Soil‐to‐Atmosphere CO2 Flux and Promote Soil‐Plant‐Microbe Health

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Furrow tillage resolves the conventional‐vs.‐no‐tillage trade‐off by simultaneously cutting CO2 efflux to 2.0–3.0 g C m−2 d−1 and unlocking high nutrient availability for the rice rhizosphere. This scalable agronomic solution strengthens soil health, enhances plant physiology, reshapes microbial metabolism, and shifts paddy systems toward a net ...
Arnab Majumdar, Munish Kumar Upadhyay, Argha Ghosh, Rakesh Biswas, Ioly Kotta Loizou, Martin Buck, Mark Tibbett, Biswajit Giri, Debojyoti Moulick, Manoj Kumar Jaiswal, Tarit Roychowdhury   +10 more
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Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Extreme Temperature Conditions: Challenges and Perspective

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Ionic liquids (ILs) have gained great attention as safe electrolyte components in recent years. This review elucidates the temperature effects on IL‐based electrolytes from molecular configurations, physicochemical properties, and interfacial chemistry, raises the challenges and design strategies operating at low‐ and HT, providing valuable guidance ...
En Xie, Chengdong Liu, Xinghao Wang, Jian Wang, Zhen Chen, Huihua Li, Wenlong Cai, Hao Li, Yang Peng, Fanglin Wu, Stefano Passerini, Haolin Tang   +11 more
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Analysis of Potent Odour-Active Volatile Thiols in Foods and Beverages with a Focus on Wine

Molecules, 2019
Certain volatile thiols are some of the most potent odour-active molecules that are found in nature. Thiols play significant roles in the aroma qualities of a range of foods and beverages, including wine, with extremely low odour detection thresholds ...
Liang Chen, Dimitra L. Capone, David W. Jeffery   +2 more
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Cancer‐Associated BCL‐2 Mutants Reveal Mechanisms Towards Venetoclax Resistance

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Venetoclax (VEN) resistance in chronic lymphocytic leukemia arises from diverse BCL2 mutations. We map mechanisms contributing to VEN resistance across common BCL‐2 variants. G101V and D103Y reduce drug binding and increase sequestration of pro‐apoptotic proteins. V156D blocks VEN allosterically.
Jonas Aufdermauer, Ian de Ridder, Mahjoobeh Ehsani, Marasim Khan, Justin Kale, Lukas P. Frenzel, David Andrews, Spyridoula Karamanou, Ana J. Garcia‐Saez, Geert Bultynck   +9 more
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The Inside and out of Folate in Strawberries and Avocados

Proceedings, 2020
Folate, an important B-group vitamin, is considered a critical vitamin in many countries, with folate deficiency being associated with neural tube defects in newborns. Strawberries and avocados are considered a healthy, tasty snack by many consumers, and
Michael E. Netzel, Caroline Dumler, Nadine Weber, Lisa Striegel, Michael Rychlik, Hung T. Hong, Tim O’Hare   +6 more
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Unveiling the Taxonomic Diversity and Unprecedented Biosynthetic Treasure of the Phylum Myxococcota

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Natural products remain vital sources of therapeutics, and the phylum Myxococcota constitutes an especially rich reservoir for them. Based on decades of microbiological efforts, we present 154 new Myxococcota genomes and revise taxonomy quadrupling the number of families and genera.
Amay Ajaykumar Agrawal, Ronald Garcia, Guangyi Chen, Chantal D. Bader, Peter Sullivan, Alexander Popoff, Daniel Krug, Maja Hunter, Sebastian Walesch, Emilia Oueis, Christine Frank, Haowen Zhao, Joachim J. Hug, Sebastian Keller, Pascal Hirsch, Azat Tagirdzhanov, Tatiana Malygina, Mary Victory E. Gutierrez, Alexey Gurevich, Judith Boldt, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann, Ulrich Nübel, Andreas Keller, Olga V. Kalinina, Rolf Müller   +25 more
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