Dorival, Jonathan Philys, Sonia Giuntini, Elisa Brailly, Romain de Ruyck, Jérôme Czjzek, Mirjam Biondi, Emanuele Bompard, Coralie
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Rhizobia are nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria that can infect legume plants to establish root nodules symbiosis. To do that, a complex exchange of molecular signals occurs between plants and bacteria. Among them, rhizobial Nops (Nodulation outer proteins), secreted by a type III secretion system (T3SS) determine the host-specificity for efficient symb...
Makshakova, Olga Breton, Christelle Perez, Serge
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Chloroplast membranes have a high content of the uncharged galactolipids monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) and digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG). These galactolipids are essential for the biogenesis of plastids and functioning of the photosynthetic machinery. A monotopic glycosyltransferase, monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase synthesizes the b...
Yanagawa, Aya Kajiwara, Atsushi Nakajima, Hiroki Desmond-Le Quéméner, Elie Steyer, Jean-Philippe Lewis, Vernard Mitani, Tomohiko
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Demands for chemical-free treatments for controlling insect pests are increasing worldwide. One such treatment is microwave heating; however, two critical issues arise when using microwaves as a heat source: intensive labor and excessive energy-consumption. Optimization is thus required to reduce energy consumption while effectively killing insects...
Saurabh, Suman Piazza, Francesco
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The last decade has witnessed a swiftly increasing interest in the design and production of novel multivalent molecules as powerful alternatives for conventional antibodies in the fight against cancer and infectious diseases. However, while it is widely accepted that large-scale flexibility (10–100 nm) and free/constrained dynamics (100 ns -μs) con...
Ramsey, Michael-Thomas Bencsik, Martin Newton, Michael Ian Reyes, Maritza Pioz, Maryline Crauser, Didier Delso, Noa Simon Le Conte, Yves
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In this work, we disclose a non-invasive method for the monitoring and predicting of the swarming process within honeybee colonies, using vibro-acoustic information. Two machine learning algorithms are presented for the prediction of swarming, based on vibration data recorded using accelerometers placed in the heart of honeybee hives. Both algorith...
Molari, Marco Monasson, Rémi Cocco, Simona
Affinity Maturation (AM) is the process through which our immune system is able to develop potent antibodies against new pathogens it encounters, and is at the base of the efficacy of vaccines. At his core AM is analogous to a Darwinian evolutionary process, where B-cells mutate and are selected on the base of their affinity for an Antigen (Ag), an...
Kohmura, Yuji Igami, Natsuho Tatsuno, Ichiro Hasegawa, Tadao Matsumoto, Takahiro
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Efficient inactivation of Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) under visible (532 nm) pulsed light irradiation was achieved by fusion of a visible light-absorbing dye with E. coli . Inactivation experiments showed that 3-log inactivation of E. coli was obtained within 20 min under a 50 kJ/cm2 dose. This treatment time and dose magnitude were 10 times faste...
Liang, Baihui Quan, Baogang Li, Junjie Loton, Chantal Bredeche, Marie-Florence Lindner, Ariel B. Xu, Luping
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Bacterial cells have characteristic spatial and temporal scales. For instance, Escherichia coli , the typical rod-shaped bacteria, always maintains a relatively constant cell width and cell division time. However, whether the external physical perturbation of cell width has an impact on cell division time remains largely unexplored. In this work, w...
de la Arada, Igor González-Ramírez, Emilio J. Alonso, Alicia Goñi, Félix M. Arrondo, José-Luis R.
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Ceramide is a major actor in the sphingolipid signaling pathway elicited by various kinds of cell stress. Under those conditions ceramide (Cer) is produced in the plasma membrane as a product of sphingomyelin (SM) hydrolysis, and this may lead to apoptosis. Thus, SM and Cer coexist in the membrane for some time, and they are known to separate later...
Nankali, Amir Wang, Yi Strimbu, Clark Elliott Olson, Elizabeth S. Grosh, Karl
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The mechanical and electrical responses of the mammalian cochlea to acoustic stimuli are nonlinear and highly tuned in frequency. This is due to the electromechanical properties of cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs). At each location along the cochlear spiral, the OHCs mediate an active process in which the sensory tissue motion is enhanced at freque...
