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Electrochemically Gated Long-Distance Charge Transport in Photosystem I
López-Martínez, Montse ; López-Ortiz, Manuel ; Antinori, Maria Elena ; Wientjes, Emilie ; Nin-Hill, Alba ; Rovira, Carme ; Croce, Roberta ; Díez-Pérez, Ismael ; Gorostiza, Pau - \ 2019
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 58 (2019)38. - ISSN 1433-7851 - p. 13280 - 13284.
current decay - electrochemical gating - electron transfer - photosynthesis - scanning tunneling microscopy

The transport of electrons along photosynthetic and respiratory chains involves a series of enzymatic reactions that are coupled through redox mediators, including proteins and small molecules. The use of native and synthetic redox probes is key to understanding charge transport mechanisms and to the design of bioelectronic sensors and solar energy conversion devices. However, redox probes have limited tunability to exchange charge at the desired electrochemical potentials (energy levels) and at different protein sites. Herein, we take advantage of electrochemical scanning tunneling microscopy (ECSTM) to control the Fermi level and nanometric position of the ECSTM probe in order to study electron transport in individual photosystem I (PSI) complexes. Current–distance measurements at different potentiostatic conditions indicate that PSI supports long-distance transport that is electrochemically gated near the redox potential of P700, with current extending farther under hole injection conditions.
Time Trends in Age at Menarche and Related Non-Communicable Disease Risk during the 20th Century in Mexico
Petersohn, Inga ; Zarate-Ortiz, Arli G. ; Cepeda-Lopez, Ana C. ; Melse-Boonstra, Alida - \ 2019
Nutrients 11 (2019)2. - ISSN 2072-6643
body mass index - diabetes mellitus - height - menarche - non-communicable disease

Developed countries have shown a time trend towards a younger age at menarche (AAM), which is associated with increased risk of later obesity and non-communicable diseases. This study aimed to assess whether a time trend in AAM is associated with disease risk in Mexican women (n = 30,826), using data from the Mexican National Health Survey (2000). Linear and log binomial regression was used for nutritional and disease outcomes, while Welch⁻ANOVA was used to test for a time trend. AAM (in years) decreased over time (p < 0.001), with a maximal difference of 0.99 years between the 1920s (13.6 years) and 1980s (12.6 years ). AAM was negatively associated with weight (β = -1.01 kg; 95% CI -1.006, -1.004) and body mass index (BMI) (β = -1.01 kg/m²; -1.007, -1.006), and positively with height (β = 0.18 cm; 0.112, 0.231). AAM was associated with diabetes (RR = 0.95; 0.93, 0.98) and hypercholesterolemia (RR = 0.93; 0.90, 0.95), but not with hypertension, breast cancer or arthritis. In Mexico, AAM decreased significantly during the 20th century. AAM was inversely associated with adult weight and BMI, and positively with height. Women with a later AAM had a lower risk of diabetes and hypercholesterolemia.
Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition
Karp, Daniel S. ; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca ; Meehan, Timothy D. ; Martin, Emily A. ; Declerck, Fabrice ; Grab, Heather ; Gratton, Claudio ; Hunt, Lauren ; Larsen, Ashley E. ; Martínez-Salinas, Alejandra ; O’Rourke, Megan E. ; Rusch, Adrien ; Poveda, Katja ; Jonsson, Mattias ; Rosenheim, Jay A. ; Schellhorn, Nancy A. ; Tscharntke, Teja ; Wratten, Stephen D. ; Zhang, Wei ; Iverson, Aaron L. ; Adler, Lynn S. ; Albrecht, Matthias ; Alignier, Audrey ; Angelella, Gina M. ; Zubair Anjum, Muhammad ; Avelino, Jacques ; Batáry, Péter ; Baveco, Johannes M. ; Bianchi, Felix J.J.A. ; Birkhofer, Klaus ; Bohnenblust, Eric W. ; Bommarco, Riccardo ; Brewer, Michael J. ; Caballero-López, Berta ; Carrière, Yves ; Carvalheiro, Luísa G. ; Cayuela, Luis ; Centrella, Mary ; Ćetković, Aleksandar ; Henri, Dominic Charles ; Chabert, Ariane ; Costamagna, Alejandro C. ; La Mora, Aldo De; Kraker, Joop De; Desneux, Nicolas ; Diehl, Eva ; Diekötter, Tim ; Dormann, Carsten F. ; Eckberg, James O. ; Entling, Martin H. ; Fiedler, Daniela ; Franck, Pierre ; Veen, F.J.F. van; Frank, Thomas ; Gagic, Vesna ; Garratt, Michael P.D. ; Getachew, Awraris ; Gonthier, David J. ; Goodell, Peter B. ; Graziosi, Ignazio ; Groves, Russell L. ; Gurr, Geoff M. ; Hajian-Forooshani, Zachary ; Heimpel, George E. ; Herrmann, John D. ; Huseth, Anders S. ; Inclán, Diego J. ; Ingrao, Adam J. ; Iv, Phirun ; Jacot, Katja ; Johnson, Gregg A. ; Jones, Laura ; Kaiser, Marina ; Kaser, Joe M. ; Keasar, Tamar ; Kim, Tania N. ; Kishinevsky, Miriam ; Landis, Douglas A. ; Lavandero, Blas ; Lavigne, Claire ; Ralec, Anne Le; Lemessa, Debissa ; Letourneau, Deborah K. ; Liere, Heidi ; Lu, Yanhui ; Lubin, Yael ; Luttermoser, Tim ; Maas, Bea ; Mace, Kevi ; Madeira, Filipe ; Mader, Viktoria ; Cortesero, Anne Marie ; Marini, Lorenzo ; Martinez, Eliana ; Martinson, Holly M. ; Menozzi, Philippe ; Mitchell, Matthew G.E. ; Miyashita, Tadashi ; Molina, Gonzalo A.R. ; Molina-Montenegro, Marco A. ; O’Neal, Matthew E. ; Opatovsky, Itai ; Ortiz-Martinez, Sebaastian ; Nash, Michael ; Östman, Örjan ; Ouin, Annie ; Pak, Damie ; Paredes, Daniel ; Parsa, Soroush ; Parry, Hazel ; Perez-Alvarez, Ricardo ; Perović, David J. ; Peterson, Julie A. ; Petit, Sandrine ; Philpott, Stacy M. ; Plantegenest, Manuel ; Plećaš, Milan ; Pluess, Therese ; Pons, Xavier ; Potts, Simon G. ; Pywell, Richard F. ; Ragsdale, David W. ; Rand, Tatyana A. ; Raymond, Lucie ; Ricci, Benoît ; Sargent, Chris ; Sarthou, Jean-Pierre ; Saulais, Julia ; Schäckermann, Jessica ; Schmidt, Nick P. ; Schneider, Gudrun ; Schüepp, Christof ; Sivakoff, Frances S. ; Smith, Henrik G. ; Stack Whitney, Kaitlin ; Stutz, Sonja ; Szendrei, Zsofia ; Takada, Mayura B. ; Taki, Hisatomo ; Tamburini, Giovanni ; Thomson, Linda J. ; Tricault, Yann ; Tsafack, Noelline ; Tschumi, Matthias ; Valantin-Morison, Muriel ; Trinh, Mai Van; Werf, Wopke Van Der; Vierling, Kerri T. ; Werling, Ben P. ; Wickens, Jennifer B. ; Wickens, Victoria J. ; Woodcock, Ben A. ; Wyckhuys, Kris ; Xiao, Haijun ; Yasuda, Mika ; Yoshioka, Akira - \ 2018
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (2018)33. - ISSN 0027-8424 - p. E7863 - E7870.
IPM
The idea that noncrop habitat enhances pest control and represents a win–win opportunity to conserve biodiversity and bolster yields has emerged as an agroecological paradigm. However, while noncrop habitat in landscapes surrounding farms sometimes benefits pest predators, natural enemy responses remain heterogeneous across studies and effects on pests are inconclusive. The observed heterogeneity in species responses to noncrop habitat may be biological in origin or could result from variation in how habitat and biocontrol are measured. Here, we use a pest-control database encompassing 132 studies and 6,759 sites worldwide to model natural enemy and pest abundances, predation rates, and crop damage as a function of landscape composition. Our results showed that although landscape composition explained significant variation within studies, pest and enemy abundances, predation rates, crop damage, and yields each exhibited different responses across studies, sometimes increasing and sometimes decreasing in landscapes with more noncrop habitat but overall showing no consistent trend. Thus, models that used landscape-composition variables to predict pest-control dynamics demonstrated little potential to explain variation across studies, though prediction did improve when comparing studies with similar crop and landscape features. Overall, our work shows that surrounding noncrop habitat does not consistently improve pest management, meaning habitat conservation may bolster production in some systems and depress yields in others. Future efforts to develop tools that inform farmers when habitat conservation truly represents a win–win would benefit from increased understanding of how landscape effects are modulated by local farm management and the biology of pests and their enemies.
Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum
Richards, Stephen ; Gibbs, Richard A. ; Gerardo, Nicole M. ; Moran, Nancy ; Nakabachi, Atsushi ; Stern, David ; Tagu, Denis ; Wilson, Alex C.C. ; Muzny, Donna ; Kovar, Christie ; Cree, Andy ; Chacko, Joseph ; Chandrabose, Mimi N. ; Dao, Marvin Diep ; Dinh, Huyen H. ; Gabisi, Ramatu Ayiesha ; Hines, Sandra ; Hume, Jennifer ; Jhangian, Shalini N. ; Joshi, Vandita ; Lewis, Lora R. ; Liu, Yih Shin ; Lopez, John ; Morgan, Margaret B. ; Nguyen, Ngoc Bich ; Okwuonu, Geoffrey O. ; Ruiz, San Juana ; Santibanez, Jireh ; Wright, Rita A. ; Fowler, Gerald R. ; Hitchens, Matthew E. ; Lozado, Ryan J. ; Moen, Charles ; Steffen, David ; Warren, James T. ; Zhang, Jingkun ; Nazareth, Lynne V. ; Chavez, Dean ; Davis, Clay ; Lee, Sandra L. ; Patel, Bella Mayurkumar ; Pu, Ling Ling ; Bell, Stephanie N. ; Johnson, Angela Jolivet ; Vattathil, Selina ; Williams, Rex L. ; Shigenobu, Shuji ; Dang, Phat M. ; Morioka, Mizue ; Fukatsu, Takema ; Kudo, Toshiaki ; Miyagishima, Shin Ya ; Jiang, Huaiyang ; Worley, Kim C. ; Legeai, Fabrice ; Gauthier, Jean Pierre ; Collin, Olivier ; Zhang, Lan ; Chen, Hsiu Chuan ; Ermolaeva, Olga ; Hlavina, Wratko ; Kapustin, Yuri ; Kiryutin, Boris ; Kitts, Paul ; Maglott, Donna ; Murphy, Terence ; Pruitt, Kim ; Sapojnikov, Victor ; Souvorov, Alexandre ; Thibaud-Nissen, Françoise ; Câmara, Francisco ; Guigó, Roderic ; Stanke, Mario ; Solovyev, Victor ; Kosarev, Peter ; Gilbert, Don ; Gabaldón, Toni ; Huerta-Cepas, Jaime ; Marcet-Houben, Marina ; Pignatelli, Miguel ; Moya, Andrés ; Rispe, Claude ; Ollivier, Morgane ; Quesneville, Hadi ; Permal, Emmanuelle ; Llorens, Carlos ; Futami, Ricardo ; Hedges, Dale ; Robertson, Hugh M. ; Alioto, Tyler ; Mariotti, Marco ; Nikoh, Naruo ; McCutcheon, John P. ; Burke, Gaelen ; Kamins, Alexandra ; Latorre, Amparo ; Ashton, Peter ; Calevro, Federica ; Charles, Hubert ; Colella, Stefano ; Douglas, Angela E. ; Jander, Georg ; Jones, Derek H. ; Febvay, Gérard ; Kamphuis, Lars G. ; Kushlan, Philip F. ; Macdonald, Sandy ; Ramsey, John ; Schwartz, Julia ; Seah, Stuart ; Thomas, Gavin ; Vellozo, Augusto ; Cass, Bodil ; Degnan, Patrick ; Hurwitz, Bonnie ; Leonardo, Teresa ; Koga, Ryuichi ; Altincicek, Boran ; Anselme, Caroline ; Atamian, Hagop ; Barribeau, Seth M. ; Vos, Martin De; Duncan, Elizabeth ; Evans, Jay ; Ghanim, Murad ; Heddi, Abdelaziz ; Kaloshian, Isgouhi ; Vincent-Monegat, Carole ; Parker, Ben J. ; Pérez-Brocal, Vicente ; Rahbé, Yvan ; Spragg, Chelsea J. ; Tamames, Javier ; Tamarit, Daniel ; Tamborindeguy, Cecilia ; Vilcinskas, Andreas ; Bickel, Ryan D. ; Brisson, Jennifer A. ; Butts, Thomas ; Chang, Chun Che ; Christiaens, Olivier ; Davis, Gregory K. ; Duncan, Elizabeth ; Ferrier, David ; Iga, Masatoshi ; Janssen, Ralf ; Lu, Hsiao Ling ; McGregor, Alistair ; Miura, Toru ; Smagghe, Guy ; Smith, James ; Zee, Maurijn Van Der; Velarde, Rodrigo ; Wilson, Megan ; Dearden, Peter ; Edwards, Owain R. ; Gordon, Karl ; Hilgarth, Roland S. ; Rider, Stanley Dean ; Srinivasan, Dayalan ; Walsh, Thomas K. ; Ishikawa, Asano ; Jaubert-Possamai, Stéphanie ; Fenton, Brian ; Huang, Wenting ; Rizk, Guillaume ; Lavenier, Dominique ; Nicolas, Jacques ; Smadja, Carole ; Zhou, Jing Jiang ; Vieira, Filipe G. ; He, Xiao Li ; Liu, Renhu ; Rozas, Julio ; Field, Linda M. ; Campbell, Peter ; Carolan, James C. ; Fitzroy, Carol I.J. ; Reardon, Karen T. ; Reeck, Gerald R. ; Singh, Karam ; Wilkinson, Thomas L. ; Huybrechts, Jurgen ; Abdel-Latief, Mohatmed ; Robichon, Alain ; Veenstra, Jan A. ; Hauser, Frank ; Cazzamali, Giuseppe ; Schneider, Martina ; Williamson, Michael ; Stafflinger, Elisabeth ; Hansen, Karina K. ; Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J.P. ; Price, Daniel R.G. ; Caillaud, Marina ; Fleet, Eric Van; Ren, Qinghu ; Gatehouse, John A. ; Brault, Véronique ; Monsion, Baptiste ; Diaz, Jason ; Hunnicutt, Laura ; Ju, Ho Jong ; Pechuan, Ximo ; Aguilar, José ; Cortés, Teresa ; Ortiz-Rivas, Benjamín ; Martínez-Torres, David ; Dombrovsky, Aviv ; Dale, Richard P. ; Davies, T.G.E. ; Williamson, Martin S. ; Jones, Andrew ; Sattelle, David ; Williamson, Sally ; Wolstenholme, Adrian ; Cottret, Ludovic ; Sagot, Marie France ; Heckel, David G. ; Hunter, Wayne - \ 2010
PloS Biology 8 (2010)2. - ISSN 1544-9173

Aphids are important agricultural pests and also biological models for studies of insect-plant interactions, symbiosis, virus vectoring, and the developmental causes of extreme phenotypic plasticity. Here we present the 464 Mb draft genome assembly of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. This first published whole genome sequence of a basal hemimetabolous insect provides an outgroup to the multiple published genomes of holometabolous insects. Pea aphids are host-plant specialists, they can reproduce both sexually and asexually, and they have coevolved with an obligate bacterial symbiont. Here we highlight findings from whole genome analysis that may be related to these unusual biological features. These findings include discovery of extensive gene duplication in more than 2000 gene families as well as loss of evolutionarily conserved genes. Gene family expansions relative to other published genomes include genes involved in chromatin modification, miRNA synthesis, and sugar transport. Gene losses include genes central to the IMD immune pathway, selenoprotein utilization, purine salvage, and the entire urea cycle. The pea aphid genome reveals that only a limited number of genes have been acquired from bacteria; thus the reduced gene count of Buchnera does not reflect gene transfer to the host genome. The inventory of metabolic genes in the pea aphid genome suggests that there is extensive metabolite exchange between the aphid and Buchnera, including sharing of amino acid biosynthesis between the aphid and Buchnera. The pea aphid genome provides a foundation for post-genomic studies of fundamental biological questions and applied agricultural problems.
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