Farhat, Sarah Le, Phuong Kayal, Ehsan Noel, Benjamin Bigeard, Estelle Corre, Erwan Maumus, Florian Florent, Isabelle Alberti, Adriana Aury, Jean-Marc
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BMC Biology
BackgroundDinoflagellates are aquatic protists particularly widespread in the oceans worldwide. Some are responsible for toxic blooms while others live in symbiotic relationships, either as mutualistic symbionts in corals or as parasites infecting other protists and animals. Dinoflagellates harbor atypically large genomes (~ 3 to 250 Gb), with gene...
Smith, Benjamin A. Gelles, Jeff Goode, Bruce L.
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Methods in Enzymology
The actin cytoskeleton is very dynamic and highly regulated by multiple associated proteins in vivo. Understanding how this system of proteins functions in the processes of actin network assembly and disassembly requires methods to dissect the mechanisms of activity of individual factors and of multiple factors acting in concert. The advent of sing...
Seidensticker, Dirk Hubau, Wannes Verschuren, Dirk Fortes-Lima, Cesar de Maret, Pierre Schlebusch, Carina M. Bostoen, Koen
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Science Advances
The present-day distribution of Bantu languages is commonly thought to reflect the early stages of the Bantu Expansion, the greatest migration event in African prehistory. Using 1149 radiocarbon dates linked to 115 pottery styles recovered from 726 sites throughout the Congo rainforest and adjacent areas, we show that this is not the case. Two peri...
Van Langenhove, Leandro Depaepe, Thomas Verryckt, Lore Fuchslueger, Lucia Donald, Julian Leroy, Celine Krishna Moorthy, Sruthi Gargallo-Garriga, Albert Ellwood, M.D. Farnon Verbeeck, Hans
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Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is a fundamental part of nitrogen cycling in tropical forests, yet little is known about the contribution made by free-living nitrogen fixers inhabiting the often-extensive forest canopy. We used the acetylene reduction assay, calibrated with 15N2, to measure free-living BNF on forest canopy leaves, vascular epiph...
Zampara, Athina Sørensen, Martine C. Holst Gencay, Yilmaz Emre Grimon, Dennis Kristiansen, Sebastian Hougaard Jørgensen, Lallana Skaarup Kristensen, Josephine Rejgaard Briers, Yves Elsser-Gravesen, Anne Brøndsted, Lone
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Campylobacter contaminated poultry remains the major cause of foodborne gastroenteritis worldwide, calling for novel antibacterials. We previously developed the concept of Innolysin composed of an endolysin fused to a phage receptor binding protein (RBP) and provided the proof-of-concept that Innolysins exert bactericidal activity against Escherich...
Heyman, Lisa Chrysargyris, Antonios Demeestere, Kristof Tzortzakis, Nikolaos Höfte, Monica
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Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
Climate change will increase the occurrence of plants being simultaneously subjected to drought and pathogen stress. Drought can alter the way in which plants respond to pathogens. This research addresses how grapevine responds to the concurrent challenge of drought stress and Plasmopara viticola, the causal agent of downy mildew, and how one stres...
Jansen, Famke Dorny, Pierre Gabriël, Sarah Dermauw, Veronique Johansen, Maria Vang Trevisan, Chiara
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Parasites & Vectors
Taenia spp. are responsible for a substantial health and economic burden in affected populations. Knowledge of the fate of the eggs of Taenia spp. in the environment and of other factors facilitating the transmission of eggs to intermediate hosts is important for the control/elimination of infections caused by Taenia spp. The aim of this systematic...
Dalzon, Bastien Bons, Joanna Diemer, Hélène Collin-Faure, Véronique Marie-Desvergne, Caroline Dubosson, Muriel Cianferani, Sarah Carapito, Christine Rabilloud, Thierry
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Proteomes
Metal-containing drugs have long been used in anticancer therapies. The mechansims of action of platinum-based drugs are now well-understood, which cannot be said of drugs containing other metals, such as gold or copper. To gain further insights into such mechanisms, we used a classical proteomic approach based on two-dimensional elelctrophoresis t...
Bonneure, Eli De Baets, Amber De Decker, Sam Van den Berge, Koen Clement, Lieven Vyverman, Wim Mangelinckx, Sven
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
As a major group of algae, diatoms are responsible for a substantial part of the primary production on the planet. Pennate diatoms have a predominantly benthic lifestyle and are the most species-rich diatom group, with members of the raphid clades being motile and generally having heterothallic sexual reproduction. It was recently shown that the mo...
Rusaczonek, Anna Czarnocka, Weronika Willems, Patrick Sujkowska-Rybkowska, Marzena Van Breusegem, Frank Karpiński, Stanisław
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Cells
Phototropins are plasma membrane-associated photoreceptors of blue light and UV-A/B radiation. The Arabidopsis thaliana genome encodes two phototropins, PHOT1 and PHOT2 , that mediate phototropism, chloroplast positioning, and stomatal opening. They are well characterized in terms of photomorphogenetic processes, but so far, little was known about ...
