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Authors: Liu WT, Yang YL, Xu Y, L… . . . → Read More: Imaging mass spectrometry of intraspecies metabolic exchange revealed the cannibalistic factors of Bacillus subtilis.

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Imaging tuberculosis with endogenous ?-lactamase reporter enzyme fluorescence in live mice

Ying Kong,
Hequan Yao,
Hongjun Ren,
Selvakumar Subbian,
Suat L. G. Cirillo,
James C. Sacchettini,
Jianghong Rao,
and Jeffrey D. Cirillo

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The slow growth rate and genetic intractability of tubercle bacilli has hindered progress toward understanding tuberculosis, one of the . . . → Read More: Imaging tuberculosis with endogenous ?-lactamase reporter enzyme fluorescence in live mice

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Mutant superoxide dismutase 1-induced IL-1beta accelerates ALS pathogenesis.

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Glutathione import in Haemophilus influenzae Rd is primed by the periplasmic heme-binding protein HbpA.

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Essential genes from Arctic bacteria used to construct stable, temperature-sensitive bacterial vaccines.

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A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

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Sebastian Lücker,
Michael Wagner,
Frank Maixner,
Eric Pelletier,
Hanna Koch,
Benoit Vacherie,
Thomas Rattei,
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté,
Eva Spieck,
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Nitrospira are barely studied and mostly uncultured nitrite-oxidizing bacteria, which are, according to molecular data, among the most diverse and widespread nitrifiers in natural ecosystems and biological wastewater treatment. Here, environmental genomics was used to reconstruct the complete genome . . . → Read More: A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

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Crystal L. Schmerk,
Darrell R. Ross,
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