EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS OF LYSM GENES IN LAND PLANTS

Evolutionary genomics of LysM genes in land plants

Abstract Background The ubiquitous LysM motif recognizes peptidoglycan, chitooligosaccharides (chitin) and, presumably, other structurally-related oligosaccharides.LysM-containing proteins were first shown to be involved in bacterial cell wall degradation and, more recently, were implicated in perceiving chitin (one of the established pathogen-asso

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Photodynamic Inactivation of Herpes Simplex Viruses

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections can be treated with direct acting antivirals like acyclovir and foscarnet, but long-term use can lead to drug resistance, which motivates research into broadly-acting antivirals that can provide a greater genetic barrier to resistance.Photodynamic inactivation (PDI) employs a photosensitizer, light, and oxygen

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Comparing neural sentence encoders for topic segmentation across domains: not your typical text similarity task

Neural sentence encoders (NSE) Sanitation are effective in many NLP tasks, including topic segmentation.However, no systematic comparison of their performance in topic segmentation has been performed.Here, we present such a comparison, using supervised and unsupervised segmentation models based on NSEs.We first compare results with baselines, showi

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