Cruz, Sónia LeKieffre, Charlotte Cartaxana, Paulo Hubas, Cédric Thiney, Najet Jakobsen, Sofie Escrig, Stéphane Jesus, Bruno Kühl, Michael Calado, Ricardo
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Scientific Reports
Some sacoglossan sea slugs incorporate intracellular functional algal chloroplasts, a process termed kleptoplasty. “Stolen” chloroplasts (kleptoplasts) can remain photosynthetically active up to several months, contributing to animal nutrition. Whether this contribution occurs by means of translocation of photosynthesis-derived metabolites from fun...
Card, Catherine Wilson, David S. Hirosue, Sachiko Rincon-Restrepo, Marcela de Titta, Alexandre Güç, Esra Martin, Coralie Bain, Odile Swartz, Melody A. Kilarski, Witold W.
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Scientific Reports
Controlled infection with intestinal nematodes has therapeutic potential for preventing the symptoms of allergic and autoimmune diseases. Here, we engineered larvae of the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis as a vaccine strategy to induce adaptive immunity against a foreign, crosslinked protein, chicken egg ovalbumin (OVA), in the absence o...
Zirzlmeier, Johannes Schrettl, Stephen Brauer, Jan C. Contal, Emmanuel Vannay, Laurent Brémond, Éric Jahnke, Eike Guldi, Dirk M. Corminboeuf, Clémence Tykwinski, Rik R.
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Nature Communications
Carbyne, a linear sp-hybridized carbon allotrope, is synthetically inaccessible and its properties are extrapolated from those of defined oligomers. Here the authors analyze weak optical bands in two series of oligoynes and reassess the optical and fundamental gap of carbyne to lower values than previously suggested.
Ambrosini, Giovanna Vorontsov, Ilya Penzar, Dmitry Groux, Romain Fornes, Oriol Nikolaeva, Daria D. Ballester, Benoit Grau, Jan Grosse, Ivo Makeev, Vsevolod
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Genome Biology
BackgroundPositional weight matrix (PWM) is a de facto standard model to describe transcription factor (TF) DNA binding specificities. PWMs inferred from in vivo or in vitro data are stored in many databases and used in a plethora of biological applications. This calls for comprehensive benchmarking of public PWM models with large experimental refe...
Pham, Thanh-An Soubies, Emmanuel Ayoub, Ahmed Lim, Joowon Psaltis, Demetri Unser, Michael
A broad class of imaging modalities involve the resolution of an inverse-scattering problem. Among them, three-dimensional optical diffraction tomography (ODT) comes with its own challenges. These include a limited range of views, a large size of the sample with respect to the illumination wavelength, and optical aberrations that are inherent to th...
Vivien, Régis Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil, Laure Pawlowski, Jan Werner, Inge Lafont, Michel Ferrari, Benoit J. D.
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Scientific Reports
Aquatic oligochaete communities are valuable indicators of the biological quality of sediments in streams and lakes, but identification of specimens to the species level based on morphological features requires solid expertise in taxonomy and is possible only for a fraction of specimens present in a sample. The identification of aquatic oligochaete...
Long, Marcus J C Wang, Lingxi Aye, Yimon
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Antioxidants & redox signaling
Significance: Electrophile signaling is coming into focus as a bona fide cell signaling mechanism. The electrophilic regulation occurs typically through a sensing event (i.e., labeling of a protein) and a signaling event (the labeling event having an effect of the proteins activity, association, etc.). Recent Advances: Herein, we focus on the first...
Li, Ju Shan, Zhiwei Ma, Evan
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MRS Bulletin
“Smaller is stronger.” Nanostructured materials such as thin films, nanowires, nanoparticles, bulk nanocomposites, and atomic sheets can withstand non-hydrostatic (e.g., tensile or shear) stresses up to a significant fraction of their ideal strength without inelastic relaxation by plasticity or fracture. Large elastic strains, up to ∼10%, can be ge...
Luan, Peiling
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), caused by the mutation of dystrophin gene, is an X-linked disorder that affects 1 in 3500 males, leading to progressive muscle degeneration and eventually resulting in premature death. Increasing evidence indicates that DMD and age-related sarcopenia share clinical hallmarks, such as decreased metabolic activity o...
Abdulle, Assyr Garegnani, Giacomo Pavliotis, Grigorios A. Stuart, Andrew M. Zanoni, Andrea
We study the problem of drift estimation for two-scale continuous time series. We set ourselves in the framework of overdamped Langevin equations, for which a single-scale surrogate homogenized equation exists. In this setting, estimating the drift coefficient of the homogenized equation requires pre-processing of the data, often in the form of sub...
