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Utami YD, Kuwahara H, Igai K, Murakami T, Sugaya K, Morikawa T, Nagura Y, Yuki M, Deevong P, Inoue T, Kihara K, Lo N, Yamada A, Ohkuma M, Hongoh Y. Genome analyses of uncultured TG2/ZB3 bacteria in 'Margulisbacteria' specifically attached to ectosymbiotic spirochetes of protists in the termite gut. ISME J 2019; 13:455-467. [PMID: 30287885 PMCID: PMC6331581 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0297-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2018] [Revised: 09/20/2018] [Accepted: 09/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
We investigated the phylogenetic diversity, localisation and metabolism of an uncultured bacterial clade, Termite Group 2 (TG2), or ZB3, in the termite gut, which belongs to the candidate phylum 'Margulisbacteria'. We performed 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing analysis and detected TG2/ZB3 sequences in 40 out of 72 termite and cockroach species, which exclusively constituted a monophyletic cluster in the TG2/ZB3 clade. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation analysis in lower termites revealed that these bacteria are specifically attached to ectosymbiotic spirochetes of oxymonad gut protists. Draft genomes of four TG2/ZB3 phylotypes from a small number of bacterial cells were reconstructed, and functional genome analysis suggested that these bacteria hydrolyse and ferment cellulose/cellobiose to H2, CO2, acetate and ethanol. We also assembled a draft genome for a partner Treponema spirochete and found that it encoded genes for reductive acetogenesis from H2 and CO2. We hypothesise that the TG2/ZB3 bacteria we report here are commensal or mutualistic symbionts of the spirochetes, exploiting the spirochetes as H2 sinks. For these bacteria, we propose a novel genus, 'Candidatus Termititenax', which represents a hitherto uncharacterised class-level clade in 'Margulisbacteria'. Our findings add another layer, i.e., cellular association between bacteria, to the multi-layered symbiotic system in the termite gut.
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- Yuniar Devi Utami
- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, 305-0074, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand
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- Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8521, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
- Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8521, Japan
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- Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, 305-0074, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan.
- Japan Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Research Center, Tsukuba, 305-0074, Japan.
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Chandra A, Sharma A, Dehzangi A, Ranganathan S, Jokhan A, Chou KC, Tsunoda T. PhoglyStruct: Prediction of phosphoglycerylated lysine residues using structural properties of amino acids. Sci Rep 2018; 8:17923. [PMID: 30560923 PMCID: PMC6299098 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-36203-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 11/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
The biological process known as post-translational modification (PTM) contributes to diversifying the proteome hence affecting many aspects of normal cell biology and pathogenesis. There have been many recently reported PTMs, but lysine phosphoglycerylation has emerged as the most recent subject of interest. Despite a large number of proteins being sequenced, the experimental method for detection of phosphoglycerylated residues remains an expensive, time-consuming and inefficient endeavor in the post-genomic era. Instead, the computational methods are being proposed for accurately predicting phosphoglycerylated lysines. Though a number of predictors are available, performance in detecting phosphoglycerylated lysine residues is still limited. In this paper, we propose a new predictor called PhoglyStruct that utilizes structural information of amino acids alongside a multilayer perceptron classifier for predicting phosphoglycerylated and non-phosphoglycerylated lysine residues. For the experiment, we located phosphoglycerylated and non-phosphoglycerylated lysines in our employed benchmark. We then derived and integrated properties such as accessible surface area, backbone torsion angles, and local structure conformations. PhoglyStruct showed significant improvement in the ability to detect phosphoglycerylated residues from non-phosphoglycerylated ones when compared to previous predictors. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, Mathews correlation coefficient and AUC were 0.8542, 0.7597, 0.7834, 0.5468 and 0.8077, respectively. The data and Matlab/Octave software packages are available at https://github.com/abelavit/PhoglyStruct .
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- Abel Chandra
- School of Engineering and Physics, Faculty of Science Technology and Environment, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
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- Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD-4111, Australia.
- Department of Medical Science Mathematics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.
- Laboratory for Medical Science Mathematics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Kanagawa, Japan.
- School of Engineering and Physics, Faculty of Science Technology and Environment, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji.
- CREST, JST, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.
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- Department of Computer Science, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Faculty of Science Technology and Environment, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
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- The Gordon Life Science Institute, Boston, MA, 02478, USA
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- Department of Medical Science Mathematics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan
- Laboratory for Medical Science Mathematics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Kanagawa, Japan
- CREST, JST, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan
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Kawamura G, Hattori M, Takamatsu K, Tsukada T, Ninomiya Y, Benjamin I, Sassone-Corsi P, Ozawa T, Tamaru T. Cooperative interaction among BMAL1, HSF1, and p53 protects mammalian cells from UV stress. Commun Biol 2018; 1:204. [PMID: 30480104 PMCID: PMC6250677 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0209-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2018] [Accepted: 10/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
The circadian clock allows physiological systems to adapt to their changing environment by synchronizing their timings in response to external stimuli. Previously, we reported clock-controlled adaptive responses to heat-shock and oxidative stress and showed how the circadian clock interacts with BMAL1 and HSF1. Here, we present a similar clock-controlled adaptation to UV damage. In response to UV irradiation, HSF1 and tumor suppressor p53 regulate the expression of the clock gene Per2 in a time-dependent manner. UV irradiation first activates the HSF1 pathway, which subsequently activates the p53 pathway. Importantly, BMAL1 regulates both HSF1 and p53 through the BMAL1-HSF1 interaction to synchronize the cellular clock. Based on these findings and transcriptome analysis, we propose that the circadian clock protects cells against the UV stress through sequential and hierarchical interactions between the circadian clock, the heat shock response, and a tumor suppressive mechanism.
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- Genki Kawamura
- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 133-0033, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 133-0033, Japan
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- Department of Physiology & Advanced Research Center for Medical Science, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Omori-nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, 143-8540, Japan
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- Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Riken, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Radiation Effects Research, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA
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- Center for Epigenetics and Metabolism, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 133-0033, Japan.
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- Department of Physiology & Advanced Research Center for Medical Science, Toho University School of Medicine, 5-21-16 Omori-nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, 143-8540, Japan.
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Watanabe S, Sato M, Sawada Y, Tanaka M, Matsui A, Kanno Y, Hirai MY, Seki M, Sakamoto A, Seo M. Arabidopsis molybdenum cofactor sulfurase ABA3 contributes to anthocyanin accumulation and oxidative stress tolerance in ABA-dependent and independent ways. Sci Rep 2018; 8:16592. [PMID: 30413758 PMCID: PMC6226459 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34862-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Arabidopsis ABA3 is an enzyme involved in the synthesis of the sulfurated form of the molybdenum (Mo) cofactor (MoCo), which is required for the enzymatic activity of so-called Mo enzymes such as aldehyde oxidase (AO) and xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH). It has been reported that AO and XDH are essential for the biosynthesis of the bioactive compounds, ABA and allantoin, respectively. However, aba3 mutants often exhibit pleiotropic phenotypes that are not explained by defects in ABA and/or allantoin biosynthesis, leading us to hypothesize that ABA3 regulates additional metabolic pathways. To reveal the currently unidentified functions of ABA3 we compared transcriptome and metabolome of the Arabidopsis aba3 mutant with those of wild type and a typical ABA-deficient mutant aba2. We found that endogenous levels of anthocyanins, members of the flavonoid group, were significantly lower in the aba3 mutant than in the wild type or the aba2 mutant under oxidative stress. In contrast, mutants defective in the AO and XDH holoenzymes accumulated significantly higher levels of anthocyanins when compared with aba3 mutant under the same conditions. Our findings shed light on a key role of ABA3 in the ABA- and allantoin-independent accumulation of anthocyanins during stress responses.
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- Shunsuke Watanabe
- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
- RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
- RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan
- RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Mathematics and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045, Japan.
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Miyamoto T, Matsui Y, Terashige T, Morimoto T, Sono N, Yada H, Ishihara S, Watanabe Y, Adachi S, Ito T, Oka K, Sawa A, Okamoto H. Probing ultrafast spin-relaxation and precession dynamics in a cuprate Mott insulator with seven-femtosecond optical pulses. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3948. [PMID: 30258055 PMCID: PMC6158258 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06312-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
A charge excitation in a two-dimensional Mott insulator is strongly coupled with the surrounding spins, which is observed as magnetic-polaron formations of doped carriers and a magnon sideband in the Mott-gap transition spectrum. However, the dynamics related to the spin sector are difficult to measure. Here, we show that pump-probe reflection spectroscopy with seven-femtosecond laser pulses can detect the optically induced spin dynamics in Nd2CuO4, a typical cuprate Mott insulator. The bleaching signal at the Mott-gap transition is enhanced at ~18 fs. This time constant is attributable to the spin-relaxation time during magnetic-polaron formation, which is characterized by the exchange interaction. More importantly, ultrafast coherent oscillations appear in the time evolution of the reflectivity changes, and their frequencies (1400-2700 cm-1) are equal to the probe energy measured from the Mott-gap transition peak. These oscillations can be interpreted as the interference between charge excitations with two magnons originating from charge-spin coupling.
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- T Miyamoto
- Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8561, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8561, Japan
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- AIST-UTokyo Advanced Operando-Measurement Technology Open Innovation Laboratory (OPERANDO-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Chiba, 277-8568, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8561, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8561, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8561, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, 305-8565, Ibaraki, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, 305-8565, Ibaraki, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, 305-8565, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8561, Japan.
- AIST-UTokyo Advanced Operando-Measurement Technology Open Innovation Laboratory (OPERANDO-OIL), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Chiba, 277-8568, Japan.
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Li Z, Wang T, Lu Z, Jin C, Chen Y, Meng Y, Lian Z, Taniguchi T, Watanabe K, Zhang S, Smirnov D, Shi SF. Revealing the biexciton and trion-exciton complexes in BN encapsulated WSe 2. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3719. [PMID: 30213927 PMCID: PMC6137082 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05863-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Strong Coulomb interactions in single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) result in the emergence of strongly bound excitons, trions, and biexcitons. These excitonic complexes possess the valley degree of freedom, which can be exploited for quantum optoelectronics. However, in contrast to the good understanding of the exciton and trion properties, the binding energy of the biexciton remains elusive, with theoretical calculations and experimental studies reporting discrepant results. In this work, we resolve the conflict by employing low-temperature photoluminescence spectroscopy to identify the biexciton state in BN-encapsulated single-layer WSe2. The biexciton state only exists in charge-neutral WSe2, which is realized through the control of efficient electrostatic gating. In the lightly electron-doped WSe2, one free electron binds to a biexciton and forms the trion-exciton complex. Improved understanding of the biexciton and trion-exciton complexes paves the way for exploiting the many-body physics in TMDs for novel optoelectronics applications.
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- Zhipeng Li
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL, 32310, USA
- Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
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- Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
- College of Physics, Nanjing University, 210093, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
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- National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
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- National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA
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- National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL, 32310, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
- Department of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA.
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Takaoka Y, Iwahashi M, Chini A, Saito H, Ishimaru Y, Egoshi S, Kato N, Tanaka M, Bashir K, Seki M, Solano R, Ueda M. A rationally designed JAZ subtype-selective agonist of jasmonate perception. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3654. [PMID: 30194307 PMCID: PMC6128907 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06135-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2017] [Accepted: 08/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The phytohormone 7-iso-(+)-jasmonoyl-L-isoleucine (JA-Ile) mediates plant defense responses against herbivore and pathogen attack, and thus increases plant resistance against foreign invaders. However, JA-Ile also causes growth inhibition; and therefore JA-Ile is not a practical chemical regulator of plant defense responses. Here, we describe the rational design and synthesis of a small molecule agonist that can upregulate defense-related gene expression and promote pathogen resistance at concentrations that do not cause growth inhibition in Arabidopsis. By stabilizing interactions between COI1 and JAZ9 and JAZ10 but no other JAZ isoforms, the agonist leads to formation of JA-Ile co-receptors that selectively activate the JAZ9-EIN3/EIL1-ORA59 signaling pathway. The design of a JA-Ile agonist with high selectivity for specific protein subtypes may help promote the development of chemical regulators that do not cause a tradeoff between growth and defense.
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Grants
- JPMJPR16Q4 Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- JPMJCR13B4 JST | Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST)
- 23102012 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)
- 26282207 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)
- 17H06407 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)
- 17H00885 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)
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- Yousuke Takaoka
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, 102-0076, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Plant Molecular Genetics Department, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Campus University Autonoma, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Suita, 565-0874, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan
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- Plant Molecular Genetics Department, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Campus University Autonoma, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
- Department of Molecular and Chemical Life Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan.
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