Till Weber

TL;DR: A detailed synthesis of carbohydrate metabolism in diatoms based on the genome sequences of Thalassiosira pseudonana and Phaeodactylum tricornutum is presented, which provides novel insights into acquisition of dissolved inorganic carbon and primary metabolic pathways of carbon in two different diats, which is of significance for an improved understanding of global carbon cycles.

TL;DR: Annotation of genes encoding isozymes of the reductive and oxidative pentose phosphate pathways in the genomes of the centric diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana and the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum and bioinformatically inferred their intracellular distribution indicated that this compartment might be involved in metabolic processes in diatoms.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, two of the three usually cytosolic thioredoxin h proteins are apparently plastid associated and, together with a thiOREDoxin reductase, putatively located in the periplastidic compartment, one of the few indications for so far unknown enzymatic reactions in the space between the two pairs of diatom Plastid envelope membranes.

TL;DR: The organization of the first HBM4EU-aligned studies that obtain comparable human biomonitoring data of European citizens to monitor their internal exposure to environmental chemicals and challenges and recommendations to improve the sampling frame for future EU-wide HBM surveys are discussed.

TL;DR: In the HBM4EU Aligned Studies as discussed by the authors , a human biomonitoring (HBM) survey was conducted in 23 countries to generate EU-wide comparable HBM data.