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Tracheid and Pit Dimensions Hardly Vary in the Xylem of Pinus sylvestris Under Contrasting Growing Conditions

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Maintaining sufficient water transport via the xylem is crucial for tree survival under variable environmental conditions. Both efficiency and safety of the water transport are based on the anatomical structure of conduits and their connections, the pits.
Magdalena Held, Magdalena Held, Andrea Ganthaler, Anna Lintunen, Walter Oberhuber, Stefan Mayr   +5 more
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Evolutionarily divergent DUF4465 domains have a common vitamin B12‐binding function

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We show that DUF4465 family proteins, widespread across bacteria from gut microbiomes, hydrothermal vents, and soil, share a common vitamin B12‐binding function. These augmented β‐jellyroll proteins bind vitamin B12 via extended loops. Our findings establish sequence‐diverse DUF4465 proteins as a widespread class of B12‐binding proteins, highlighting ...
Charlea Clarke, Michal Banasik, Rokas Juodeikis, Martin J. Warren, Richard W. Pickersgill   +4 more
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Old‐age pine trees: Unique objects of the Buzuluksky forest

Юг России: экология, развитие
Tree‐rings contain information about variability of climatic factors and about various negative events (abnormal weather events, fires, defoliation caused by leaf‐eating insects, etc.).Due to the fact that information about climatic conditions and ...
S. E. Kucherov, P. V. Velmovskiy
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Derivation and characterization of retinal pigment epithelium from urine‐derived iPSCs

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Age‐related macular degeneration causes vision loss via RPE dysfunction and loss. Traditional iPSC therapies rely on invasive biopsies, limiting scalability. Here, we utilize urine‐derived stem cells as an accessible source to generate u‐iPSCs, successfully differentiated into pigmented RPE. This “Urine‐to‐Retina” platform provides a promising path for
Daniella Beiner, Hainan Zhu, Carol Christine Bosholm, Heuy‐Ching Wang, Tracy Criswell, Anthony Atala, Jian‐Xing Ma, Yuanyuan Zhang   +7 more
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Methodology for Development of a 600-Year Tree-Ring Multi-Element Record for Larch from the Taymir Peninsula, Russia [PDF]

Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология, 2013
We developed a long (600-year) dataset for the concentrations of 26 elements in tree rings of larch from the Taymir Peninsula, the northernmost region in the world (ca. 72°N) where trees grow. Tree rings corresponding to the time period from 1300 to 1900
Alexi M. Grachev, Eugene A. Vaganov, Steven W. Leavitt, Irina P. Panyushkina, Eugene P. Chebykin, Vladimir V. Shishov, Natalia A. Zhuchenko, Anastasia A. Knorre, Malcolm K. Hughes, Mukhtar M. Naurzbaev   +9 more
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Preliminary evaluation of the potential of tree-ring cellulose content as a novel supplementary proxy in dendroclimatology [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2018
Cellulose content (CC (%)) in tree rings is usually utilised as a tool to control the quality of the α-cellulose extraction from tree rings in the preparation of stable-isotope analysis in wooden tissues.
M. M. Ziehmer, M. M. Ziehmer, K. Nicolussi, C. Schlüchter, C. Schlüchter, M. Leuenberger, M. Leuenberger   +6 more
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Molecular dynamics simulations of positively selected codons in FcγRI reveal novel biochemical binding properties

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Evolutionary analysis across 32 placental mammals identified positive selection at residues H148 and W149 in the immune receptor FcγR1. Ancestral reconstruction combined with molecular dynamics simulations reveals how these mutations may influence receptor structure and dynamics, providing insight into the evolution of antibody recognition and immune ...
David A. Young, Omar Arias‐Gaguancela, Fiona Gibson, Morgan Grainger, Jodie Score, Amit Nathubhai, Mauricio Cafiero, Lee Richard Machado   +7 more
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Molecular characterization of covRS mutations in M1UK Streptococcus pyogenes

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Group A Streptococcus (GAS) acquires covRS mutations driving a hypervirulent bacterial state, frequently associated with invasive disease‐like necrotizing fasciitis. We demonstrate that the newly emerged M1UK GAS lineage can also acquire these mutations.
Jarrad Pritchard, Emma‐Jayne Proctor, Jiawa Wang, Nikolas P. Johnston, Andrew Hayes, Georgia McCorkell, Haibo Yu, Jai Tree, Mark R. Davies, Mark J. Walker, Ronald Sluyter, Stephan Brouwer, Martina L. Sanderson‐Smith   +12 more
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A new flow chip in combination with multiphoton microscopy as a protocol for longitudinal 3D imaging of tissue calcification under shear stress

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Miniaturized flow chip platform enabling continuous perfusion and longitudinal multiphoton 3D imaging of vascular smooth muscle cell constructs under physiological flow. Brightfield imaging guides region selection, while CellTracker Green and mRuby‐labeled fetuin‐A visualize cells and mineral deposition, respectively. Magnesium supplementation markedly
Vytautas Kučikas, Aaron D. Morgan, Ignas Čiurlionis, Christian Böhm, Stefan Jockenhövel, Willi Jahnen‐Dechent, Marc A. M. J. van Zandvoort   +6 more
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Cyclic Variation of Residual (CO2 + H2O) and Total Pressure in Conifer Stem and Woody Root Tree Rings [PDF]

Журнал Сибирского федерального университета: Серия Биология, 2018
Tree-ring chronologies of stem discs and core samples have been widely used to reconstruct the climatic conditions of tree growth. However, insufficient attention has been given to the fact that root and stem wood accumulate biogenic gases, whose ...
Boris G. Ageev, Aleksandr N. Gruzdev, Valeria A. Sapozhnikova   +2 more
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