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Correction to: Mediative Mechanism of Freezing/Thawing on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in an Inland Saline Alkaline Wetland: a Metagenomic Analysis
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Mediative Mechanism of Freezing/Thawing on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in an Inland Saline-Alkaline Wetland: a Metagenomic Analysis
Inland saline-alkaline wetlands distributed in the mid-high latitude have repeatedly experienced freezing and thawing. However, the response of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and microbially-mediated carbon and...
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Open AccessComplete genome sequence of the kiwifruit bacterial canker pathogen Pseudomonas savastanoi strain MHT1
Pseudomonas savastanoi is an important plant pathogen that infects and causes symptoms in a variety of economically important crops, causing considerable loss of yield and quality. Because there has been no rese...
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Diversity and community structure of ammonia oxidizers in a marsh wetland of the northeast China
As an interface of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, wetland is a hotspot of the global nitrogen cycle. Ammonia oxidation is an essential part of the nitrogen cycle and is conducted by ammonia-oxidizing arch...
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Short, auto-inducible promoters for well-controlled protein expression in Escherichia coli
Expression of recombinant proteins in Escherichia coli often requires use of inducible promoters to shorten the lag phase and improve protein productivity and final protein titer. Synthetic molecules that cannot ...
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Temporal and spatial distribution of ammonia-oxidizing organisms of two types of wetlands in Northeast China
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) contribute significantly to the nitrogen cycle. The community structure of AOA and AOB is diverse in the different wetlands. Few studies hav...
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Egalitarianism in Biofilms
Microbial biofilms are multicellular communities of sessile microorganisms encased by the hydrated polymeric matrix. They have significant influences on both aquatic/terrestrial ecosystem and anthropogenic act...
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Interaction between RAD51 and MCM complex is essential for RAD51 foci forming in colon cancer HCT116 cells
Colon cancer remains one of the most common digestive system malignancies in the World. This study investigated the possible interaction between RAD51 and minichromosome maintenance proteins (MCMs) in HCT116 c...
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Open AccessHypothetical protein Cpn0423 triggers NOD2 activation and contributes to Chlamydia pneumoniae-mediated inflammation
Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae) is pathogenic to humans, by causing pulmonary inflammation or bronchitis in both adolescents and young adults. However, the molecular signals linki...
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Characterization and expression analysis of a chalcone isomerase-like gene in relation to petal color of Actinidia chrysantha
Chalcone isomerase-like (CHIL) belongs to the type IV CHI proteins whose roles in cell remain largely unclear. In the present study, we characterized an AcCHIL gene encoding Actinidia chrysantha CHIL protein. The...
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Distinct expression patterns of the GDP dissociation inhibitor protein gene (OsRhoGDI2) from Oryza sativa during development and abiotic stresses
Guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor (GDI) plays an essential role in regulating the forms of Rac/Rop between GDP-bound inactivity and GTP-bound activity in plants. In this paper, we reported a stress-res...
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Kinetics of nitrate and sulfate removal using a mixed microbial culture with or without limited-oxygen fed
The biological degradation of nitrate and sulfate was investigated using a mixed microbial culture and lactate as the carbon source, with or without limited-oxygen fed. It was found that sulfate reduction was ...
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Simultaneous energy recovery and autotrophic nitrogen removal from sewage at moderately low temperatures
This study assessed the technical feasibility of treating sewage with a combination of direct anaerobic treatment and autotrophic nitrogen removal, while simultaneously achieving energy recovery and nitrogen r...
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Cytotoxicity, apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, reactive oxygen species, mitochondrial membrane potential, and Western blotting analysis of ruthenium(II) complexes
Three new ruthenium(II) complexes—[Ru(bpy)2(adppz)](ClO4)2, [Ru(dmb)2(adppz)](ClO4)2, and [Ru(dmp)2(adppz)](ClO4)2 (bpy is 2,2′-bipyridine, adppz is 7-aminodipyrido[3,2-a:2′,3′-c]phenazine, dmb is 4,4′-dimethyl-2...
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Influence of aeration intensity on mature aerobic granules in sequencing batch reactor
Aeration intensity is well known as an important factor in the formation of aerobic granules. In this research, two identical lab-scale sequencing batch reactors with aeration intensity of 0.8 (R1) and 0.2 m3/h (...
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Reactivation characteristics of stored aerobic granular sludge using different operational strategies
Aerobic granules after 6 months storage were employed in identical sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) using synthetic wastewater to investigate the impacts of different operational strategies on granules’ reacti...
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Phosphorus removal characteristics of granular and flocculent sludge in SBR
Aerobic granulation technology has become a novel biotechnology for wastewater treatment. However, the distinct properties and characteristics of phosphorus removal between granules and flocculent sludge are s...
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Synthesis, characterization, and in vitro antitumor properties of gold(III) compounds with the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) active ingredient liriodenine
Liriodenine, an oxoaporphine alkaloid with anticancer activity isolated from Zanthoxylum nitidum (rutaceous anticancer traditional Chinese medicine), was selected as a bioactive ligand to react with HAuCl4 and Na...
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Comparison of biological removal via nitrite with real-time control using aerobic granular sludge and flocculent activated sludge
The process of nitrification–denitrification via nitrite for nitrogen removal under real-time control mode was tested in two laboratory-scale sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) with flocculent activated sludge (...
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2-(3,5-Dibromo-4-hydroxyphenyl)imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthrolinoruthenium(II) complexes: synthesis, characterization, cytotoxicity, apoptosis, DNA-binding and antioxidant activity
A new ligand DBHIP and its two ruthenium(II) complexes [Ru(dmb)2(DBHIP)](ClO4)2 (1) and [Ru(dmp)2(DBHIP)](ClO4)2 (2) have been synthesized and characterized. The cytotoxicity of DBHIP and complexes 1 and 2 has be...
