Frontiers

Impact of sand surface coating on biocementation mechanisms

In biocementation, the overall degree of cementation achieved is constrained by the successful completion of four individual, potentially rate-limiting steps: (i) adsorption of the biocatalyst urease ...
C&EN

Membrane Transport Modulates the pH-Regulated Feedback of an Enzyme Reaction Confined within Lipid Vesicles

School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Leeds ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Sigua, G. C., Stone, K. C., Bauer, P. J., & Szogi, A. A. (2020). Efficacy of Supplemental Irrigation and Nitrogen Management on Enhancing Nitrogen Availability and Urease ...

ABSTRACT: Under the current context of climate change, supplementary irrigation may be needed for crop production resilience. We determined the effects of supplementary irrigation on sorghum grain ...
The New York Times

How Exercise Strengthens Your Brain

Physical activity improves cognitive and mental health in all sorts of ways. Here’s why, and how to reap the benefits. By Dana G. Smith Growing up in the Netherlands, Henriette van Praag had always ...
UroToday

Antibacterial properties and urease suppression ability of Lactobacillus inhibit the development of infectious urinary stones caused by Proteus mirabilis.

Infectious urolithiasis is a type of urolithiasis, that is caused by infections of the urinary tract by bacteria producing urease such as Proteus mirabilis. Lactobacillus spp. have an antagonistic ...
Frontiers

Pipeline for Targeted Meta-Proteomic Analyses to Assess the Diversity of Cattle Rumen Microbial Urease

In the rumen of cattle, urease produced by ureolytic bacteria catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea to ammonia, which plays an important role in nitrogen metabolism and animal production. A high diversity ...
PNAS

Structural insights into how GTP-dependent conformational changes in a metallochaperone UreG facilitate urease maturation

Our work provides insights into how cells solve the problem of delivering nickel, a toxic metal, to the active site of a metalloenzyme such as urease. Urease, a nickel-containing enzyme, is a ...
Scientific Research Publishing

J. M. Bremner, and R. L. Mulvaney, “Urease Activity in Soil,” In: R. G. Burns, Ed., Soil Enzymes, Academic Press, New York, 1978, pp. 149-196.

ABSTRACT: Currently distillery effluents have attracted worldwide attention for their application in agricultural land. The present investigation deals with the effect of application of various ...