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Microbial Fuel Cell Based Thermosensor for Robotic Applications [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 On the roadmap to building completely autonomous artificial bio-robots, all major aspects of robotic functions, namely, energy generation, processing, sensing, and actuation, need to be self-sustainable and function in the biological realm.
John Greenman +6 more
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Identification of Novel Thermosensors in Gram-Positive Pathogens [PDF]
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 Temperature is a crucial variable that every living organism, from bacteria to humans, need to sense and respond to in order to adapt and survive. In particular, pathogenic bacteria exploit host-temperature sensing as a cue for triggering virulence gene ...
Pilar Fernández +9 more
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Engineering plant stress responses to combat climate change. [PDF]
New PhytolNew Phytologist, Volume 249, Issue 3, Page 1092-1094, February 2026.
Jones MA.
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OmpA, a Common Virulence Factor, Is Under RNA Thermometer Control in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 The outer membrane protein OmpA is a virulence factor in many mammalian pathogens. In previous global RNA structure probing studies, we found evidence for a temperature-modulated RNA structure in the 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) of the Yersinia ...
Daniel Scheller +4 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) form large spherical assemblies and their regulation is not well understood. Here, the authors provide insights into the mechanism of Hsp26 activation by characterising phospho-mimetic mutants of yeast Hsp26.
Moritz Mühlhofer +9 more
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Phase Separation as a Molecular Thermosensor [PDF]
Developmental Cell, 2020 How organisms sense temperature is a long-standing question. However, the identification of molecular thermosensors has been limited. Now, in a recent issue of Nature, Jung et al. demonstrate that phase separation of ELF3, a component of the circadian clock, acts as a thermosensor.
Changxuan, Li, Xiaofeng, Fang
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Molecules, 2022 The expression of genes of interest (GOI) can be initiated by providing external stimuli such as temperature shifts and light irradiation. The application of thermal or light stimuli triggers structural changes in stimuli-sensitive biomolecules within ...
Jongdoo Choi +3 more
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A Prion-based Thermosensor in Plants [PDF]
Molecular Cell, 2020 Some prion-like domains and low-complexity regions provide the multivalency required to facilitate protein phase separation to regulate protein function. Jung et al. (2020) demonstrate how natural selection of the ELF3 prion-like domain gives rise to an intuitive biological switch that directly responds to temperature.
Edward G, Wilkinson, Lucia C, Strader
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RNA structure mediated thermoregulation: What can we learn from plants?
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 RNA molecules have the capacity to form a multitude of distinct secondary and tertiary structures, but only the most energetically favorable conformations are adopted at any given time. Formation of such structures strongly depends on the environment and
Sherine E. Thomas +2 more
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Thermostability of Two Cyanobacterial GrpE Thermosensors [PDF]
Plant and Cell Physiology, 2011 GrpE proteins act as co-chaperones for DnaK heat-shock proteins. The dimeric protein unfolds under heat stress conditions, which results in impaired interaction with a DnaK protein. Since interaction of GrpE with DnaK is crucial for the DnaK chaperone activity, GrpE proteins act as a thermosensor in bacteria.
Barthel, Sandra +2 more
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