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Membrane composition and thermodynamic identity as boundaries of life for synthetic cell research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
What makes a cell a cell? The boundary of a living cell is not just a wall. Read as a Markov blanket, the membrane separates internal from external states, generating identity and non‐equilibrium order. Can this identity be rebuilt from scratch in a synthetic cell?
Caterina Presutti, Bert Poolman
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Size-dependent translocation of polystyrene nanoplastics across biological barriers in mammals

Nature Communications
Nanoplastics (NPs) pose health concerns worldwide. However, robust quantitative data on their absorption, distribution, and excretion in mammals remain scarce.
Hong-Jie Zhang, Sicheng Li, Xin-Lei Wang, Ke-Da Zhang, Hai-Tao Fang, Xuan Wu, Ziyun Huang, Wei Jiang, Liuyan Yang, Qiao-Guo Tan, Bingcai Pan, Rong Ji, Ping Wang, Baoshan Xing, Ai-Jun Miao   +14 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling metabolism based performance of an urban water system using WaterMet2 [PDF]

, 2015
Copyright © 2015 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Resources, Conservation and Recycling. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural ...
Behzadian, Kourosh, Kapelan, Zoran
core   +1 more source

MXene membrane with directionally functionalized channel entrances for enhanced ion selectivity and permeability

Nature Communications
Ion-separation membranes that combine high selectivity with high permeability are important for various practical applications. Molecular functionalization of sub-nanochannel membranes is widely used to improve ion separation selectivity; however, it ...
Hang Yu, Rongming Xu, Jiachun Ren, Ling Yuan, Zheng Cui, Weiming Zhang, Zhuyuan Wang, Lu Lv, Xiwang Zhang, Bingcai Pan   +9 more
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Effects and mechanisms of microplastic types on plant uptake of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances

Eco-Environment & Health
Microplastics (MPs) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) frequently co-occur in agricultural soils. MP type–dependent interactions with soil and plants can modify PFASs environmental behavior, complicating assessments of PFAS-related ...
Qian Gu, Pengfei Zhou, Yi Kong, Chenzhuo Song, Qian Zhang, Xinyi Cui   +5 more
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Occurrence and Fate of Ultramicrobacteria in a Full-Scale Drinking Water Treatment Plant

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018
Ultramicrobacteria (UMB) are omnipresent and numerically dominate in freshwater, as microbes can present in drinking water systems, however, the UMB communities that occur and their removal behaviors remain poorly characterized in drinking water ...
Jie Liu, Renxin Zhao, Jiayu Zhang, Guijuan Zhang, Ke Yu, Xiaoyan Li, Bing Li   +6 more
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Oncogenic DMTF1β promotes cancer cell motility by regulating autophagy through ULK1 stabilization

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In the current study, we demonstrate that the oncogene DMTF1β regulates ULK1 stability by reducing its proteasomal degradation in cancer cells. This stabilization enables ULK1 to induce autophagy, which in turn facilitates cancer cell migration. Consequently, reduced DMTF1β levels lead to decreased autophagy and impaired cancer cell migration.
Jun Xu, Nicolas J. Niklaus, Anna M. Schläfli, Igor Tokarchuk, Magali Humbert, Federico La Manna, Bich Vu, David Maul, Ramin Radpour, Marianna Kruithof‐de Julio, Inti Zlobec, Jörn Dengjel, Bruce E. Torbett, Mario P. Tschan   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Machine-learning-guided high-throughput screening of covalent organic framework materials for rhenate adsorption

Gongye shui chuli
Efficient removal of high concentrations of pertechnetate (99TcO4⁻) from nuclear wastewater is critical. Current adsorbents have limited capacity and require frequent regeneration, thereby increasing the risk of nuclide re-release.
YUAN Ling, ZHANG Han, CHEN Chen, ZHAO Xin, LÜ Lu, ZHANG Weiming   +5 more
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Treatment with KCL‐286, a first‐in‐class retinoic acid receptor‐β (RARβ) agonist, ameliorates neuronal DNA damage and inflammation in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Repair of neuronal DNA damage in Alzheimer's disease by KCL‐286. (A) Amyloid‐β oligomers and plaques impair neuronal DNA repair pathways, leading to DNA double‐strand breaks and glial activation. (B) KCL‐286 activates RARβ/RXR signalling via retinoic acid response elements (RAREs), associated with increased BRCA1 expression, enhanced DNA repair and ...
Natasha Hill, Hassan Yousef Othman AlMuallim, Elouisa Maddock, Carl Hobbs, Earl Clarke, Maria B. Goncalves, Jonathan P. T. Corcoran   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source