Isolation and genome sequence annotation of SallyK, a newly discovered cluster EG bacteriophage infecting .

Discovered from soil in a flower planter in Pocatello, Idaho and using , SallyK is a lytic bacteriophage with a siphovirus morphology. It has a 62,883 bp-long genome with 103 putative genes. Based on gene content similarity to actinobacteriophages, SallyK is assigned to cluster EG.

Isolation and genome sequence annotation of KillerTomato, a newly discovered cluster EE bacteriophage infecting .

Discovered in Pocatello, Idaho, soil near a tomato garden, siphovirus KillerTomato infects NRRL B-24224. KillerTomato is a lytic cluster EE phage with a 17,442-bp genome and 68.6% GC content.

Electrochemical Manufacturing Routes for Organic Chemical Commodities.

Electrochemical synthesis of organic chemical commodities provides an alternative to conventional thermochemical manufacturing and enables the direct use of renewable electricity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the chemical industry. We discuss electrochemical synthesis approaches that use abundant carbon feedstocks for the production of the largest petrochemical precursors and basic organic chemical products: light olefins, olefin oxidation derivatives, aromatics, and methanol. First, we identify feasible routes for the electrochemical production of each commodity while considering the reaction thermodynamics, available feedstocks, and competing thermochemical processes.

Financial Vulnerability and Worker Well-Being: A Comparison of Long-Term Services and Supports Workers With Other Health Workers.

Over 1.5 million new jobs need to be filled by 2026 for medical assistants, nursing aides, and home care aides, many of which will work in the long-term services and supports (LTSS) sector. Using 16 years of data from the American Time Use Survey, we examined the financial vulnerability of high-skill and low-skill LTSS workers in comparison with other health care workers, while providing insight into their well-being by measuring time spent on work and nonwork activities.

Calcium-binding protein, spermatid-specific 1 is expressed in human salivary glands and contains an anti-inflammatory motif.

Salivary glands are involved in the production and exocrine and endocrine secretion of biologically active proteins, polypeptides, and hormones involved in growth and differentiation, homeostasis, and digestion. We have previously studied the prohormone submandibular rat 1 (SMR1), product of the Vcsa1 gene, which is highly expressed in the testes and salivary glands of rats, and can be cleaved to produce polypeptides with analgesic, erectile function, and anti-inflammatory activities. Humans lack the Vcsa1 gene, but homologous sequences and functions for analgesia and erectile function exist in the human genes Prol1, SMR3a, and SMR3b located on the human chromosomal region close to where Vcsa1 lies in the rat.