Sentences with phrase «culturable filamentous»

For example, tiny fragments of plastic can be accumulated in yeasts and filamentous fungi.

Cox obtained a biology degree at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and went on to do a biochemical engineering Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham where he measured the growth of filamentous fungi in solid pastes using image analysis and fluorescence microscopy.

1 Athlete's foot fungus Trichophyton and Epidermophyton are filamentous, parasitic microbes that latch onto bare feet in communal showers.

Water moulds or Oomycetes are a group of filamentous, unicellular protists, physically resembling fungi.

Voids change over time, actually spurring the universe's hordes of galaxies into their filamentous structures.

Besides mushrooms such as truffles or morels, also many yeast and mould fungi, as well as other filamentous fungi belong to the Ascomycota phylum.

Some nonavian theropod dinosaurs were at least partially covered in feathers or filamentous protofeathers.

Researchers at MedImmune, a Maryland - based biotech company, and at Washington University in St. Louis whipped up two separate vaccine formulations in the hope that at least one would successfully target an «adhesion» molecule called Filamentous H, or FimH, present on E. coli.

These aberrant morphological changes were accompanied by an abnormal distribution of intracellular filamentous actin (F - actin).

Strong fluorescence at the periphery, or cell surface, and the filamentous projections are indicative of budding virus - like particles from the cell surface.

In the image below, taken with the Swedish Solar Telescope of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma), the jets are observed in the solar disk as filamentous structures of short duration and reflected in the spectrum shifted to blue because they are getting close to the Earth.

The most distinct trend was a decline in the abundance of large - sized, filamentous diatoms and an increase in small diatoms.»

Now, researchers working with one of these microbes — an orange, filamentous fungus known commonly as red bread mold — have discovered the genetic basis behind how their spores, or asexual reproductive units, communicate.

Actin is a filamentous protein, which together with other cytoskeletal elements forms a dynamic network of filaments that provide both structural support, as well as critical functional capabilities, to the cell.

This is a still image from a video showing the interaction of filamentous actin (mApple - F - tractin, purple) with myosin IIA bipolar head groups (EGFP, myosin IIA, green) at 20 - second intervals for 100 time points, as seen with high - NA TIRF - SIM.

The filamentous bacteria combine with the mucus to form a hair - like surface that apparently shields the Pompeii worm from physical and thermal bombardment by the vent.

To learn which survival strategy the filamentous fungus Eurotium rubrum uses, a team of researchers led by Eviatar Nevo from the University of Haifa in Israel, Igor Grigoriev of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), and Gerhard Rambold, University of Bayreuth, Germany and their colleagues studied its genome.

Upon mixing with the surface layer, the water will cause an increase in the growth of filamentous algae and elevate the risk of blue - green algal blooms.

The sequence is a «big deal» says John Taylor, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, because filamentous Ascomycota such as N. crassa are involved in most plant diseases.

The researchers liken this phenomenon to the action of a slingshot and note that something similar occurs with a filamentous mushroom called Basidiomycota.

The filamentous fungus Eurotium rubrum after 3 weeks of growing on 30 percent diluted Dead Sea water.

It consists of three major sub-structures inside the cell, which are made up of long, filamentous proteins: tubulin and actin.

Although the best evidence for feathers has been found in a group of meat - eating dinosaurs dating back to about 150 million years ago, and from which birds apparently evolved at about the same time, there have been sightings of bristly, filamentous structures in very distantly related plant - eating dinosaurs as well.

Mice from one vendor, for example, were notably lacking segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB), a commensal lineage recently shown to help mice produce key antibodies and immune cells in their intestines.

The other two are pertussis toxin and filamentous haemagglutinin.

«We believe that wormlike particles will be a challenge for macrophages to engulf and clear,» DeSimone says, «because such filamentous objects are known to be difficult for macrophages to reel in.

«Using improved computer software, we have enhanced gene predictions and secondary metabolite gene cluster predictions in both species to a level not found in most other filamentous fungal species,» says Robert King, the team's lead bioinformatician at Rothamsted.

The filamentous form of H. capsulatum (left panel) grows in the soil in the Midwestern United States and other parts of the world.

By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders.

Diversity of culturable filamentous Ascomycetes in the eastern South Pacific Ocean off Chile — Jeanett Vera — World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

* Green synthesis of gold nanoparticles by thermophilic filamentous fungi — Zsófia Molnár — Scientific Reports

Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a new study shows that aggressive filamentous microbial (fungi - like) pathogens can invade liverworts and that some elements of the liverwort's response are shared with distantly related plants.

Mix of cyanobacteria from a microbial mat that includes several filamentous forms.

(C) Free floating «osteocytes» complete with fillapodia and (D) a filamentous mass that remained pliable and elastic.

Direct anti-inflammatory effect of a bacterial virulence factor: IL -10-dependent suppression of IL - 12 production by filamentous haemagglutinin from Bordetella pertussis.

Despite this, with the exception of filamentous cyanobacteria, microbes have largely been overlooked in monitoring programs».

Live cell imaging of actin dynamics in the filamentous fungus aspergillus nidulans.

conF and conJ contribute to conidia germination and stress response in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans.

The Wiskott - Aldrich syndrome protein regulates nuclear translocation of NFAT2 and NF - $ ąppa $ B (RelA) independently of its role in filamentous actin polymerization and actin cytoskeletal rearrangement.

They found that the abundance of Th - 17 cells in the gut is tied to the presence of gut microbes called segmented filamentous bacteria.

The aspergilli comprise a diverse group of filamentous fungi spanning over 200 million years of evolution.

Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus.

In 1983, the two collaborated on a project for which Trojanowski did electron microscopy on the filamentous inclusions that formed when NGF interacted with PC12 cells, and Lee did the biochemistry of the receptor - NGF interaction.

The worms are capable of sucking out the sperm following copulation, but some worms have evolved filamentous structures on the sperm heads help protect against such manipulation by anchoring the sperm inside the antrum.

In filamentous cells of the bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, the tubulin homolog FtsZ (tagged with CFP) forms dot - like and spiral structures in two distinct populations.

However, inseminated worms will often suction the sperm out of their female genital opening using their mouth when copulation is over.3 Some worms have also evolved countermeasures against such rejection: filamentous structures on the side of the sperm heads that anchor the genetic packages into the body cavity.4 (See illustration.)

Researchers have discovered that the film constructed by assembling a nontoxic filamentous virus functions as a heat dissipation material, and that can be simply prepared by drying the virus aqueous solution at room temperature.

Not so a cell, which maintains shape via rods of filamentous proteins called «actins.»

The space between galaxies is a cold and dark place filled only with a filamentous haze of hydrogen atoms left over from the Big Bang.

At the same time, a team led by Peter Philippsen of the University of Basel in Switzerland, sequenced the genome of the filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypii.