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Antibacterial mechanism of Malaysian Carey clay against food-borne Staphylococcus aureus (2024)
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Azmi, N. N., Mahyudin, N. A., Wan Omar, W. H., Abdullah, A. H., Ismail, R., Ishak, C. F., & Sharples, G. J. (online). Antibacterial mechanism of Malaysian Carey clay against food-borne Staphylococcus aureus. Natural Product Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2024.2355583

Depending on their chemical structure and geochemistry, clay minerals can display potent antibacterial properties against a range of bacterial pathogens. Malaysian Carey clay was evaluated for its antibacterial activity against food-borne ATCC 1356... Read More about Antibacterial mechanism of Malaysian Carey clay against food-borne Staphylococcus aureus.

Molecular Mimicry of Transposable Elements in Plants (2024)
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Chu, J., Newman, J., & Cho, J. (2024). Molecular Mimicry of Transposable Elements in Plants. Plant & Cell Physiology, https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcae058

Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA elements that are particularly abundant in the plant genomes. They have long been considered as junk DNA; however, a growing body of evidence suggests that TE insertions promote genetic diversity that is ess... Read More about Molecular Mimicry of Transposable Elements in Plants.

Cryo-EM structures of the human Elongator complex at work (2024)
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Abbassi, N., Jaciuk, M., Scherf, D., Böhnert, P., Rau, A., Hammermeister, A., …Glatt, S. (2024). Cryo-EM structures of the human Elongator complex at work. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 4094. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48251-y

tRNA modifications affect ribosomal elongation speed and co-translational folding dynamics. The Elongator complex is responsible for introducing 5-carboxymethyl at wobble uridine bases (cm5U34) in eukaryotic tRNAs. However, the structure and function... Read More about Cryo-EM structures of the human Elongator complex at work.

Reengineering of an Artificial Protein Cage for Efficient Packaging of Active Enzymes (2024)
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Azuma, Y., Gaweł, S., Pasternak, M., Woźnicka, O., Pyza, E., & Heddle, J. G. (online). Reengineering of an Artificial Protein Cage for Efficient Packaging of Active Enzymes. Small, Article 2312286. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202312286

Protein cages that readily encapsulate active enzymes of interest present useful nanotools for delivery and catalysis, wherein those with programmable disassembly characteristics serve as particularly attractive platforms. Here, a general guest packa... Read More about Reengineering of an Artificial Protein Cage for Efficient Packaging of Active Enzymes.

An atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis (2024)
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Leite, D. J., Schönauer, A., Blakeley, G., Harper, A., Garcia-Castro, H., Baudouin-Gonzalez, L., Wang, R., Sarkis, N., Nikola, A. G., Koka, V. S. P., Kenny, N. J., Turetzek, N., Pechmann, M., Solana, J., & McGregor, A. P. (2024). An atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis. EvoDevo, 15(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13227-024-00224-4

Spiders are a diverse order of chelicerates that diverged from other arthropods over 500 million years ago. Research on spider embryogenesis, particularly studies using the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum, has made important contributio... Read More about An atlas of spider development at single-cell resolution provides new insights into arthropod embryogenesis.

Leopard density and determinants of space use in a farming landscape in South Africa (2024)
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McKaughan, J., Stephens, P., Lucas, C., Guichard-Kruger, N., Guichard-Kruger, F., & Hill, R. (2024). Leopard density and determinants of space use in a farming landscape in South Africa. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 10562. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61013-6

Protected areas are traditionally the foundation of conservation strategy, but land not formally protected is of particular importance for the conservation of large carnivores because of their typically wide-ranging nature. In South Africa, leopard (... Read More about Leopard density and determinants of space use in a farming landscape in South Africa.

The first intron of ARF7 is required for expression in root tips. (2024)
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Han, J., Welch, T., Voß, U., Vernoux, T., Bhosale, R., & Bishopp, A. (2024). The first intron of ARF7 is required for expression in root tips. iScience, 27(6), Article 109936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109936

Auxin regulates plant growth and development through the transcription factors of the AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) gene family. ARF7 is one of five activators that bind DNA and elicit downstream transcriptional responses. In roots, ARF7 regulates grow... Read More about The first intron of ARF7 is required for expression in root tips..

Domestication constrains the ability of dogs to convey emotions via facial expressions in comparison to their wolf ancestors (2024)
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Hobkirk, E. R., & Twiss, S. D. (2024). Domestication constrains the ability of dogs to convey emotions via facial expressions in comparison to their wolf ancestors. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 10491. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61110-6

Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are the domestically bred descendant of wolves (Canis lupus). However, selective breeding has profoundly altered facial morphologies of dogs compared to their wolf ancestors. We demonstrate that these morphological diffe... Read More about Domestication constrains the ability of dogs to convey emotions via facial expressions in comparison to their wolf ancestors.

Platform-directed allostery and quaternary structure dynamics of SAMHD1 catalysis (2024)
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Acton, O. J., Sheppard, D., Kunzelmann, S., Caswell, S. J., Nans, A., Burgess, A. J. O., …Taylor, I. A. (2024). Platform-directed allostery and quaternary structure dynamics of SAMHD1 catalysis. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 3775. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48237-w

SAMHD1 regulates cellular nucleotide homeostasis, controlling dNTP levels by catalysing their hydrolysis into 2’-deoxynucleosides and triphosphate. In differentiated CD4+ macrophage and resting T-cells SAMHD1 activity results in the inhibition of HIV... Read More about Platform-directed allostery and quaternary structure dynamics of SAMHD1 catalysis.

Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe (2024)
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Border, J. A., Boersch‐Supan, P. H., Pearce‐Higgins, J. W., Hewson, C. M., Howard, C., Stephens, P. A., Willis, S. G., Houston, A. I., Gargallo, G., & Baillie, S. R. (2024). Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(7), Article e13850. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13850

Aim: Geographical patterns of migrant species arrival have been little studied, despite their relevance to global change responses. Here, we quantify continent-wide inter-specific variation in spatio-temporal patterns of spring arrival of 30 common m... Read More about Spatial variation in spring arrival patterns of Afro‐Palaearctic bird migration across Europe.