Toxoplasma is an obligate intracellular parasite that replicates in mammalian cells within a parasitophorous vacuole (PV) that does not fuse with any host organelles. One mechanism developed by the parasite for nutrient acquisition is the attraction of host organelles to the PV. Here, we examined the exploitation of host lipid droplets (LD), ubiquitous fat storage organelles, by Toxoplasma. We ...

Host-guest interactions are an attractive approach to design redox electrolytes, enabling precisely tune the key properties for flow batteries such as half-cell potential, solubility, and stability. Herein we report a host-guest complex of highly water soluble (2-hydroxypropyl)-β-cyclodextrin with 1-decyl-1′-ethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium dibromide anolyte in new aqueous organic battery (AORFB). The s...

This paper addresses a distributed storage management issue to implement a fault tolerant mobile computing system. Considering the mobile hosts vulnerable to the failure, the mobile computing system is desirable to be equipped with a proper recovery mechanism. However, in the mobile environment, the storages for the recovery information of a mobile host may be dispersed over the network as the ...

Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology increases the areal density of hard disk drives. Among the three types of SMR drives on the market today, Host Aware SMR (HA-SMR) drives look the most promising. In this paper, we carry out evaluation to understand the performance of HA-SMR drives with the objective of building large-scale storage systems using this type of drive. We focus on evaluat...

Parasites steal resources that a host would otherwise direct toward its own growth and reproduction. We use this fundamental notion to explain resource-dependent virulence in a fungal parasite (Metschnikowia)-zooplankton host (Daphnia) system and in a variety of other disease systems with invertebrate hosts. In an experiment, well-fed hosts died faster and produced more parasites than did auste...

Cathode Materials In article number 2101342, Yuan Ma, Ben Breitung, Torsten Brezesinski and co-workers report the introduction of high (configurational) entropy into Prussian blue analogues to achieve a stable cathode host material for reversible sodium storage. Especially, Nax(FeMnNiCuCo)[Fe(CN)6] is shown exhibit much improved cycling performance, among others, due its nearly zero-strain oper...

The transcript levels of six defense genes including pathogenesis-related gene 1 (PR-1), pathogenesis-related gene 2 (PR-2), pathogenesis-related gene 5 (PR-5), lipoxygenase (LOX), phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) and catalase (CAT) were investigated in tomato plants inoculated with Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli as a non-host pathogen and X. euvesicatoria as a host pathogen. Activation o...

The world is currently faced with a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Several genome-wide and exome-wide studies (GWAS EWAS) have been performed to identify the variability in host genetic constitution that likely underlines inter-individual variabilities COVID-19 severity clinical manifestation. Due magnitude articles available, creating list host-specific variants genes associa...

Protecting data on primary storage often requires creating secondary copies by periodically replicating the data to external target systems. We analyze over 100,000 traces from 125 customer block-based primary storage systems to gain a high-level understanding of I/O characteristics and then perform an in-depth analysis of over 500 traces from 13 systems that span at least 24 hours. Our analysi...