Harmful algal blooms (HABs), commonly called red tides, are caused by some toxic
phytoplanktons, and have made massive economic losses as well as marine environmental …

Tomato variety Hawaii 7996 is resistant to the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum,
whereas the Moneymaker variety is susceptible to the pathogen. To evaluate whether plant …

Crops lack genetic resistance to most necrotrophic pathogens. To compensate for this
disadvantage, plants recruit antagonistic members of the soil microbiome to defend their …

Strains of Escherichia coli B, especially BL21, have been widely used for overproducing
recombinant proteins, ethanol, and other biomolecules. Almost all laboratory strains of E …

Objective Gastric cancer (GC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Although
microbes besides Helicobacter pylori may also contribute to gastric carcinogenesis, wild …

Background Aging is a natural process that an organism gradually loses its physical fitness
and functionality. Great efforts have been made to understand and intervene in this …

Achieving sufficient yields of proteins in their functional form represents the first bottleneck in
contemporary bioscience and biotechnology. To accomplish successful overexpression of …

Rhodopsin-containing marine microbes such as those in the class Flavobacteriia play a
pivotal role in the biogeochemical cycle of the euphotic zone (Fuhrman JA, Schwalbach MS …

Background Successful chemoprevention or chemotherapy is achieved through targeted
delivery of prophylactic agents during initial phases of carcinogenesis or therapeutic agents …

A novel light-driven chloride-pumping rhodopsin (ClR) containing an 'NTQ motif'in its
putative ion conduction pathway has been discovered and functionally characterized in a …