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Carbon Nanoparticles as Sources for a Cost-Effective Water Purification Method: A Comprehensive Review

Fluids, 2020
As the global population grows, the demand for cost-effective and eco-friendly water purification methods is increasing, which presently is at its peak due to the increase of impurities in water and the increasing awareness of waterborne disease.
Ankit Kotia, Aman Yadav, Tata Rohit Raj, Maria Gertrud Keischgens, Happy Rathore, Ioannis E. Sarris   +5 more
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The microbiome in human skin aging

FEBS 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, Cornelia Wiegand, Omid Omrani, Mario Fabri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conversion of Kitchen Waste into Sustainable Fertilizers: Comparative Effectiveness of Biological, Microbial, and Thermal Treatments in a Ryegrass Growth Trial

Applied Sciences
This study investigated the conversion of kitchen waste into environmentally friendly fertilizers and soil improvers using five various treatments: (1) inoculation with effective microorganisms followed by anaerobic fermentation, (2) 12 days of decay ...
Ksawery Kuligowski, Izabela Konkol, Lesław Świerczek, Adrian Woźniak, Adam Cenian   +4 more
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Partial depletion of plasminogen activator inhibitor‐1 decreases subcutaneous fat cell hypertrophy and liver cholesterol in high‐fat‐fed female mice

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Obesity raises blood levels of PAI‐1, a protein linked to metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease in people with obesity. In female mice fed a high‐fat diet, partially lowering PAI‐1 led to smaller subcutaneous fat cells and lower liver cholesterol, without changing body weight or insulin sensitivity.
Claudia E. Ramirez Bustamante, Robert Sharp, Pradip K. Saha, Elizabeth S. Anaya, Elizabeth L. Lieu, Evelyn L. de Groot, Pooja Patel, Mi Jeong Heo, Aaron R. Cox, Kang Ho Kim, Sean M. Hartig   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging experimental and computational methods for studying redox‐regulated structural transitions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Redox reactions can reshape proteins and alter how they behave in cells, with important consequences for health and disease. This review explores emerging experimental and computational approaches for discovering these redox‐sensitive protein switches, revealing their structural effects, and predicting their behavior, opening new opportunities to ...
Tasneem Rass, Dana Reichmann, Gábor Erdős   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional comparison of EncB and EncC cargo proteins in iron storage within the Myxococcus xanthus encapsulin

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Encapsulins are protein nanocompartments that play an important role in iron storage. In the Myxococcus xanthus encapsulin system, two cargo proteins called EncB and EncC contribute to iron mineralization. Here, we show that EncB and EncC generate iron‐containing minerals with distinct chemical compositions, suggesting that the composition of stored ...
Harry B. McDowell, Thomas Walther, Egbert Hoiczyk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamics of humification and bacterial community during electric field-assisted co-composting of municipal sludge, wheat straw and cattle manure with the amendment of magnetite

Industrial Crops and Products
Electric field assistance (EA) or magnetite (MGT) addition has been a promising strategy to promote composting efficiency and humification. However, the combined effects between electric field and MGT on humification and bacterial community as well as ...
Shihua Zhang, Ziyi Cao, Biming Liu, Huiwen Zhang, Yiyun Liu, Yongjing Wan   +5 more
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Structural and biochemical analysis of a B12 superbinder

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
BtuG proteins are vitamin B12 scavengers in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a dominant human gut bacterium. We present crystal structures of three BtuG homologs bound to cobalamin and its precursor cobinamide, revealing picomolar binding affinities, among the highest known for any natural protein.
Jose M. Martinez Felices, Jacob J. Whittaker, Dirk J. Slotboom, Albert Guskov   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structures of mycobacterial 3‐methylcrotonyl‐CoA carboxylase reveal carrier‐domain translocation between catalytic sites

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Mycobacterial 3‐methylcrotonyl‐CoA carboxylase uses a mobile biotin‐carrying domain to shuttle a carboxyl group between two catalytic sites, enabling carboxylation of 3‐methylcrotonyl‐CoA during leucine breakdown. Cryo‐electron microscopy captures the carrier at both sites and reveals an inward loop movement that may prevent futile rebinding to the ...
Ajit Yadav, Bogdan I. Florea, Sebastian Geibel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waste-to-Resource: Heavy Metal Ions Adsorption from Aqueous Solutions Using Coal Fly Ash and Bone Charcoal

Molecules
Finding cost-effective and eco-friendly ways to remove toxic heavy metals from wastewater remains a critical challenge for industrial sustainability. This study presents a comparative performance matrix of coal fly ash (CFA) and bone charcoal (BC) for ...
Eleonora Sočo, Andżelika Domoń, Dorota Papciak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source