Evaluated articles

Staphylococcus aureus counters organic acid anion-mediated inhibition of peptidoglycan cross-linking through robust alanine racemase activity

1. Sasmita Panda
2. Yahani P Jayasinghe
3. Dhananjay D Shinde
4. Emilio Bueno
5. Amanda Stastny
6. Blake P Bertrand
7. Sujata S Chaudhari
8. Tammy Kielian
9. Felipe Cava
10. Donald R Ronning
11. Vinai C Thomas

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  In this useful study, the authors present convincing evidence linking the enzyme D-alanine-D-alanine ligase (Ddl), crucial for cell wall fortification, to organic acid exposure in Staphylococcus aureus. While it's established that organic acids impede bacterial growth, the researchers reveal a novel coping mechanism where S. aureus maintains elevated levels of D-alanine, the substrate for Ddl, to counteract this inhibition. This discovery illuminates a bacterial strategy for organic acid tolerance, offering new insights for microbiologists and potentially informing future antimicrobial approaches.

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Revealing global stoichiometry conservation architecture in cells from Raman spectral patterns

1. Ken-ichiro F. Kamei
2. Koseki J. Kobayashi-Kirschvink
3. Takashi Nozoe
4. Hidenori Nakaoka
5. Miki Umetani
6. Yuichi Wakamoto

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Growing a cystic fibrosis-relevant polymicrobial biofilm to probe community phenotypes

1. Sarah Poirier
2. Fabrice Jean-Pierre

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The LH receptor regulates hippocampal spatial memory and restores dendritic spine density in ovariectomized APP/PS1 AD mice

1. Megan Mey
2. Sabina Bhatta
3. Sneha Suresh
4. Luis Montero Labrador
5. Helen Piontkivska
6. Gemma Casadesus

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

High-volume, label-free imaging for quantifying single-cell dynamics in induced pluripotent stem cell colonies

1. Anthony J. Asmar
2. Zackery A. Benson
3. Adele P. Peskin
4. Joe Chalfoun
5. Mylene Simon
6. Michael Halter
7. Anne L. Plant

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Phylogenomics reveals coincident divergence between giant host sea anemones and the clownfish adaptive radiation

1. Aurelien De Jode
2. Andrea M. Quattrini
3. Tommaso Chiodo
4. Marymegan Daly
5. Catherine S. McFadden
6. Michael L. Berumen
7. Christopher P. Meyer
8. Suzanne Mills
9. Ricardo Beldade
10. Aaron Bartholomew
11. Anna Scott
12. James D Reimer
13. Kensuke Yanagi
14. Takuma Fuji
15. Estefanía Rodríguez
16. Benjamin M. Titus

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Excessive F-Actin and Microtubule Formation Mediates Primary Cilia Shortening and Loss in Response to Increased Extracellular Osmotic Pressure

1. Hiroshi Otani
2. Ryota Nakazato
3. Faryal Ijaz
4. Kanae Koike
5. Koji Ikegami

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Pinpointing the microbiota of tardigrades: what is really there?

1. Bartłomiej Surmacz
2. Daniel Stec
3. Monika Prus-Frankowska
4. Mateusz Buczek
5. Łukasz Michalczyk
6. Piotr Łukasik

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AutoPeptideML: A study on how to build more trustworthy peptide bioactivity predictors

1. Raul Fernandez-Diaz
2. Rodrigo Cossio-Pérez
3. Clement Agoni
4. Hoang Thanh Lam
5. Vanessa Lopez
6. Denis C. Shields

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TRESK background potassium channel in MrgprA3 ⁺ pruriceptors regulates acute and chronic itch

1. Júlia Llimós-Aubach
2. Alba Andres-Bilbe
3. Anna Pujol-Coma
4. Irene Pallás
5. Josep Maria de Anta
6. Concepció Soler
7. Núria Comes
8. Gerard Callejo
9. Xavier Gasull

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All three MutL complexes are required for repeat expansion in a human stem cell model of CAG-repeat expansion mediated glutaminase deficiency

1. Bruce Hayward
2. Daman Kumari
3. Saikat Santra
4. Clara D.M. van Karnebeek
5. André B.P. van Kuilenburg
6. Karen Usdin

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Mantis: high-throughput 4D imaging and analysis of the molecular and physical architecture of cells

1. Ivan E. Ivanov
2. Eduardo Hirata-Miyasaki
3. Talon Chandler
4. Rasmi Cheloor-Kovilakam
5. Ziwen Liu
6. Soorya Pradeep
7. Chad Liu
8. Madhura Bhave
9. Sudip Khadka
10. Carolina Arias
11. Manuel D. Leonetti
12. Bo Huang
13. Shalin B. Mehta

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Classification of bioactive peptides: a comparative analysis of models and encodings

1. Edoardo Bizzotto
2. Guido Zampieri
3. Laura Treu
4. Pasquale Filannino
5. Raffaella Di Cagno
6. Stefano Campanaro

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Biophysical mechanism of ultrafast helical twisting contraction in the giant unicellular ciliate Spirostomum ambiguum

1. L. X. Xu
2. M. S. Bhamla

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Multistability driven by cooperative growth in microbial communities

1. William Lopes
2. Daniel R. Amor
3. Jeff Gore

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Disease-associated astrocyte epigenetic memory promotes CNS pathology

1. Hong-Gyun Lee
2. Joseph M. Rone
3. Zhaorong Li
4. Camilo Faust Akl
5. Seung Won Shin
6. Joon-Hyuk Lee
7. Lucas E. Flausino
8. Florian Pernin
9. Chun-Cheih Chao
10. Kilian L. Kleemann
11. Lena Srun
12. Tomer Illouz
13. Federico Giovannoni
14. Marc Charabati
15. Liliana M. Sanmarco
16. Jessica E. Kenison
17. Gavin Piester
18. Stephanie E. J. Zandee
19. Jack P. Antel
20. Veit Rothhammer
21. Michael A. Wheeler
22. Alexandre Prat
23. Iain C. Clark
24. Francisco J. Quintana

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Sweet and fatty symbionts: photosynthetic productivity and carbon storage boosted in microalgae within a host

1. A. Catacora-Grundy
2. F. Chevalier
3. D. Yee
4. C. LeKieffre
5. N. L. Schieber
6. Y. Schwab
7. B. Gallet
8. P.H. Jouneau
9. G. Curien
10. J. Decelle

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Comparative Hox genes expression within the dimorphic annelid Streblospio benedicti reveals patterning variation during development

1. Jose Maria Aguilar-Camacho
2. Nathan D. Harry
3. Christina Zakas

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BioLLMBench: A Comprehensive Benchmarking of Large Language Models in Bioinformatics

1. Varuni Sarwal
2. Viorel Munteanu
3. Timur Suhodolschi
4. Dumitru Ciorba
5. Eleazar Eskin
6. Wei Wang
7. Serghei Mangul

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Development of a sensor for disulfide bond formation in diverse bacteria

1. Jocelyne Mendoza
2. Dyotima
3. Sally Abulaila
4. Cristina Landeta

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