Cruciferous plants' pungent defense mechanism: How repurposed stomatal genes also fend off herbivores
Throughout evolution, plants have continuously adapted to survive in changing environments. Apart from complex structural ...
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Ukrainian Female Prisoners Swap Cells For Combat Unit Roles
"I took a deep breath. Even the air is different outside prison," said Tequila, sitting in her soldier's uniform on a metal-framed bed in a military barrack. She is one of more than 100 female ...
C&EN1mon
Molecular Distinction of Cell Wall and Capsular Polysaccharides in Encapsulated Pathogens by In Situ Magic-Angle Spinning NMR Techniques
Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, UMR 5248, IECB, F-33607 Pessac, France ...
BioTechniques1y
Poster: How to prevent mycoplasma contamination and spread in your cell culture laboratory
Mycoplasma is a common bacterial contaminator in cell culture laboratories. Mycoplasma contamination has been shown to induce cellular changes, e.g. susceptibility to drugs, which could render any ...
Frontiers3y
DnaK Functions as a Moonlighting Protein on the Surface of Mycoplasma hyorhinis Cells
hyorhinis and rMhr-DnaK was determined by Western blotting. The whole cell lysate of M. hyorhinis and the purified rMhr-DnaK protein were subjected to 12% SDS-PAGE and transferred to a polyvinylidene ...
eLife5y
Distinct cytoskeletal proteins define zones of enhanced cell wall synthesis in Helicobacter pylori
Round spheres, straight rods, and twisting corkscrews, bacteria come in many different shapes. The shape of bacteria is dictated by their cell wall, the strong outer barrier of the cell. As bacteria ...
Frontiers5y
Evolution of the Cell Wall Gene Families of Grasses
Grasses and related commelinid monocot species synthesize cell walls distinct in composition from other angiosperm species. With few exceptions, the genomes of all angiosperms contain the genes that ...
eLife6y
Human axial progenitors generate trunk neural crest cells in vitro
The neural crest (NC) is a multipotent embryonic cell population that generates distinct cell types in an axial position-dependent manner. The production of NC cells from human pluripotent stem cells ...