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ACS Nano
October 2024
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Science Park Golm, Potsdam 14476, Germany.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
October 2024
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
Surface-attached cells can sense and respond to shear flow, but planktonic (free-swimming) cells are typically assumed to be oblivious to any flow that carries them. Here, we find that planktonic bacteria can transcriptionally respond to flow, inducing expression changes that are beneficial in flow. Specifically, we use microfluidic experiments and quantitative modeling to show that in the presence of flow, planktonic induce shear rate-dependent genes that promote growth in low-oxygen environments.
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August 2024
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan.
Primordial carbon delivered to the early earth by asteroids and meteorites provided a diverse source of extraterrestrial organics from pre-existing simple organic compounds, complex solar-irradiated macromolecules, and macromolecules from extended hydrothermal processing. Surface regolith collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from the carbon-rich asteroid 162173 Ryugu present a unique opportunity to untangle the sources and processing history of carbonaceous matter. Here we show carbonaceous grains in Ryugu can be classified into three main populations defined by spectral shape: Highly aromatic (HA), Alkyl-Aromatic (AA), and IOM-like (IL).
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September 2024
Department of Computer Engineering, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran.
Predicting protein structure is both fascinating and formidable, playing a crucial role in structure-based drug discovery and unraveling diseases with elusive origins. The Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) serves as a biannual battleground where global scientists converge to untangle the intricate relationships within amino acid chains. Two primary methods, Template-Based Modeling (TBM) and Template-Free (TF) strategies, dominate protein structure prediction.
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April 2024
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
Liquid-liquid phase separation is an intracellular mechanism by which molecules, usually proteins and RNAs, interact and then rapidly demix from the surrounding matrix to form membrane-less compartments necessary for cellular function. Occurring in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus, properties of the resulting droplets depend on a variety of characteristics specific to the molecules involved, such as valency, density, and diffusion within the crowded environment. Capturing these complexities in a biologically relevant model is difficult.
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