Antibacterial microcins are ubiquitous and functionally diverse across bacterial communities by Jennifer K. Parker, Aaron L. Feller, Richard Gu, Simon Sanchez-Paiva, Bethany C. Perez, Angela C. O’Donnell, Wendi Deng, Rita M. Ousterhout, Sun-Young Kim, Claus O. Wilke, Bryan W. Davies

“…Here, we show that what appeared to be a limited, niche class of Gram-negative bacteriocins, called class II microcins, is in fact a highly abundant, sequence- and function-diverse class of secreted bacteriocins. …”
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Temps du care et organisation sociale du travail en famille by Aurélie Damamme, Patricia Paperman

“…As a process integrating different temporalities, Care is described as both an organization in itself and a sequence of phases. Maintaining continuity and coherence is identified as the main role and concern of the principal caregiver. …”
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Analysis of the SIRT Gene Family of Danio rerio and Its Expression at Different Developmental Stages of Follicles by Jiabao PENG, Ziyan WANG, Zhigang YANG, Aqin CHEN

“…The SIRT family exists widely in prokaryotes and eukaryotes and is mainly divided into five classes. SIRT1–SIRT3 is class Ⅰ, SIRT4 is class Ⅱ, SIRT5 is class Ⅲ, SIRT6 and SIRT7 are class Ⅳ, and class U exists only in the SIRT family from archaea to bacteria. …”
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Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus ocular isolates. by William L Johnson, Michael B Sohn, Samantha Taffner, Payel Chatterjee, Paul M Dunman, Nicole Pecora, Rachel A F Wozniak

“…However, importantly, ocular isolates were found to be significantly enriched for a set of enterotoxins, suggesting a potential role for this class of virulence factors in promoting ocular disease. …”
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γδT cells, a key subset of T cell for cancer immunotherapy by Jianzhen Lv, Zheng Liu, Xiangting Ren, Siyuan Song, Yan Zhang, Yi Wang, Yi Wang

“…Recent advances in γδT cell research have elucidated their mechanisms of tumor recognition, including the detection of phosphoantigens and stress-induced ligands like MICA (MHC class I polypeptide-related sequence A), MICB (MHC class I polypeptide-related sequence B), and ULBP (UL16-binding protein). …”
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Identification of the Selenoprotein S Positive UGA Recoding (SPUR) element and its position-dependent activity by Eric M. Cockman, Vivek Narayan, Belinda Willard, Sumangala P. Shetty, Paul R. Copeland, Donna M. Driscoll

“…This effect was reversed when the PSL was replaced with other stem-loops or an unstructured sequence, suggesting that the PSL does not play an active role in Sec insertion. …”
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Behavioral Classification of Sequential Neural Activity Using Time Varying Recurrent Neural Networks by Yongxu Zhang, Catalin Mitelut, David J. Arpin, David Vaillancourt, Timothy Murphy, Shreya Saxena

“…These models are able to not only predict the class of the time-sequence correctly, but also lead to accurate classification earlier in the sequence than standard recurrent neural networks, while also stabilizing gradient dynamics. …”
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Multi-Host of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi on Dipterocarpaceae in Tropical Rain Forests by Maliyana Ulfa, Eny Faridah, Su See Lee, Sumardi Sumardi, Christine le Roux, Antoine Galiana, Patahayah Mansor, Marc Ducousso

“…The identity of the ectomycorrhizal fungi was obtained by matching the samples’DNA sequence to the Genbank database. Based on the identification results, ectomycorrhizal fungi that associate with dipterocarpaceae on tree and seedling levels have genetic relationship with Dothideomycetes class and Sordariales, Sebacinales, Cantharellales, Russulales, Agaricales, Boletales, and Thelephorales orders. …”
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HLA-Cw*0102-restricted HIV-1 p24 epitope variants can modulate the binding of the inhibitory KIR2DL2 receptor and primary NK cell function. by Lena Fadda, Christian Körner, Swati Kumar, Nienke H van Teijlingen, Alicja Piechocka-Trocha, Mary Carrington, Marcus Altfeld

“…Accumulating evidence suggests an important role for Natural Killer (NK) cells in the control of HIV-1 infection. …”
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CONVERGENCE OF SOLUTIONS OF BILATERAL PROBLEMS IN VARIABLE DOMAINS AND RELATED QUESTIONS by Alexander A. Kovalevsky

“…Moreover, in the latter case, the exhaustion condition of an n-dimensional domain by a sequence of n-dimensional domains plays an important role. …”
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Tree polynomials identify a link between co-transcriptional R-loops and nascent RNA folding. by Pengyu Liu, Jacob Lusk, Nataša Jonoska, Mariel Vázquez

“…These structures are abundant in nature and play important physiological and pathological roles. Recent research shows that DNA sequence and topology affect R-loops, yet it remains unclear how these and other factors contribute to R-loop formation. …”
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Genome wide analysis of stress responsive WRKY transcription factors in Arabidopsis thaliana by Shaiq Sultan, Muhammad Amjid Ali, Rana Muhammad Atif, Farrukh Azeem, Habibullah Nadeem, M. Hussnain Siddique, Ertuğrul Filiz, Khadim Hussain, Amjad Abbas

“…WRKY transcription factors are a class of DNA-binding proteins that bind with a specific sequence C/TTGACT/C known as W-Box found in promoters of genes which are regulated by these WRKYs. …”
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Identification and profiling of novel metagenome assembled uncultivated virus genomes from human gut by Kanchan Bhardwaj, Niharika, Anjali Garg, Aakriti Jain, Manish Kumar, Manish Datt, Vijay Singh, Sudhanshu Vrati

“…Sequence analysis revealed eight new species spanning seven genera within the class, Caudoviricetes and nineteen new species from fourteen genera within the ssDNA virus family, Microviridae. …”
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Analysis of Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor Genes and Their HLA Ligands in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases by Fereshteh Beigmohammadi, Mahdi Mahmoudi, Jafar Karami, Nooshin Ahmadzadeh, Nasser Ebrahimi-Daryani, Nima Rezaei

“…Polymerase chain reaction with sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) was used to evaluate the absence or presence of the 15 KIR genes, 5 HLA class I ligands, and 2 pseudogenes. …”
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A new alignment-free method: K-mer Subsequence Natural Vector (K-mer SNV) for classification of fungi by Lily He, Mochao Huang, Gulinisha Yiming, Yi Zhu, Ruowei Liu, Jinghan Chen, Stephen S. T. Yau

“…On a large fungi dataset including 120,140 sequences, our innovative approach has achieved remarkable success in predicting the taxonomic labels of fungi across six hierarchical taxonomic levels: phylum (99.52%), class (98.17%), order (97.20%), family (96.11%), genus (94.14%), and species (93.32%). …”
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A direct comparison of single-grain and multi-grain aliquot luminescence dating of feldspars from colluvial deposits in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by S. Riedesel, S. Riedesel, G. Guérin, K. J. Thomsen, M. Sontag-González, M. Blessing, M. Blessing, G. A. Botha, M. Hellers, G. Möller, A. Peffeköver, C. Sommer, C. Sommer, A. Zander, M. Will, M. Will

“…Doses calculated for the different samples range from <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 80 to <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 800 Gy and contain 6 % to 67 % saturated grains. …”
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Insights into the protein domains of C-VI TRIM subfamily in viral infection by Bbumba Patrick, Yan-Chung Lo, Wen-Chi Su, Wen-Chi Su, Wen-Chi Su, Wen-Chi Su

“…Through multiple sequence alignment, we delineate both the conserved and divergent features within this subclass, underscoring the uniqueness of Class VI TRIM protein. …”
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An <i>AP2</i>-Family Gene Correlates with the Double-Flower Trait in <i>Petunia</i> × <i>hybrida</i> by Tong Xie, Saneyuki Kawabata

“…These results indicate that the double-flower trait follows a single-gene, semi-dominant inheritance model. Whole-genome sequencing of BW and DL followed by sequence analysis of floral organ identity genes revealed no significant differences in B-class (<i>PhGLO1</i>, <i>PhGLO2</i>, <i>PhDEF</i>, and <i>PhTM6</i>) or C-class (<i>pMADS3</i> and <i>FBP6</i>) genes between the two cultivars. …”
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Structure of the EphB6 receptor ectodomain. by Emilia O Mason, Yehuda Goldgur, Dorothea Robev, Andrew Freywald, Dimitar B Nikolov, Juha P Himanen

“…Eph receptors are the largest group amongst the receptor tyrosine kinases and are divided into two subgroups, A and B, based on ligand binding specificities and sequence conservation. Through ligand-induced and ligand-independent activities, Ephs play central roles in diverse biological processes, including embryo development, regulation of neuronal signaling, immune responses, vasculogenesis, as well as tumor initiation, progression, and metastasis. …”
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Sterile inflammation, cross-presentation, autophagy and adaptive immunity in immunoinflammatory rheumatic diseases by M. Z. Saidov

“…An important role in this process belongs to the transendothelial migration of leukocytes to the focus of sterile inflammation and formation of cellular inflammatory infiltrate. …”
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