TY  - JOUR
A1  - Vogel, Sebastian
A1  - Prinzing, Andreas
A1  - Bußler, Heinz
A1  - Müller, Jörg
A1  - Schmidt, Stefan
A1  - Thorn, Simon
T1  - Abundance, not diversity, of host beetle communities determines abundance and diversity of parasitoids in deadwood
JF  - Ecology and Evolution
N2  - Most parasites and parasitoids are adapted to overcome defense mechanisms of their specific hosts and hence colonize a narrow range of host species. Accordingly, an increase in host functional or phylogenetic dissimilarity is expected to increase the species diversity of parasitoids. However, the local diversity of parasitoids may be driven by the accessibility and detectability of hosts, both increasing with increasing host abundance. Yet, the relative importance of these two mechanisms remains unclear. We parallelly reared communities of saproxylic beetle as potential hosts and associated parasitoid Hymenoptera from experimentally felled trees. The dissimilarity of beetle communities was inferred from distances in seven functional traits and from their evolutionary ancestry. We tested the effect of host abundance, species richness, functional, and phylogenetic dissimilarities on the abundance, species richness, and Shannon diversity of parasitoids. Our results showed an increase of abundance, species richness, and Shannon diversity of parasitoids with increasing beetle abundance. Additionally, abundance of parasitoids increased with increasing species richness of beetles. However, functional and phylogenetic dissimilarity showed no effect on the diversity of parasitoids. Our results suggest that the local diversity of parasitoids, of ephemeral and hidden resources like saproxylic beetles, is highest when resources are abundant and thereby detectable and accessible. Hence, in some cases, resources do not need to be diverse to promote parasitoid diversity.
KW  - barcoding
KW  - deadwood
KW  - experiment
KW  - host–parasitoid interaction
KW  - natural enemy
KW  - specialization
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-238892
VL  - 11
IS  - 11
SP  - 6881
EP  - 6888
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mechau, Jannik
A1  - Frank, Andreas
A1  - Bakirci, Ezgi
A1  - Gumbel, Simon
A1  - Jungst, Tomasz
A1  - Giesa, Reiner
A1  - Groll, Jürgen
A1  - Dalton, Paul D.
A1  - Schmidt, Hans‐Werner
T1  - Hydrophilic (AB)\(_{n}\) Segmented Copolymers for Melt Extrusion‐Based Additive Manufacturing
JF  - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
N2  - Several manufacturing technologies beneficially involve processing from the melt, including extrusion‐based printing, electrospinning, and electrohydrodynamic jetting. In this study, (AB)\(_{n}\) segmented copolymers are tailored for melt‐processing to form physically crosslinked hydrogels after swelling. The copolymers are composed of hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol)‐based segments and hydrophobic bisurea segments, which form physical crosslinks via hydrogen bonds. The degree of polymerization was adjusted to match the melt viscosity to the different melt‐processing techniques. Using extrusion‐based printing, a width of approximately 260 µm is printed into 3D constructs, with excellent interlayer bonding at fiber junctions, due to hydrogen bonding between the layers. For melt electrospinning, much thinner fibers in the range of about 1–15 µm are obtained and produced in a typical nonwoven morphology. With melt electrowriting, fibers are deposited in a controlled way to well‐defined 3D constructs. In this case, multiple fiber layers fuse together enabling constructs with line width in the range of 70 to 160 µm. If exposed to water the printed constructs swell and form physically crosslinked hydrogels that slowly disintegrate, which is a feature for soluble inks within biofabrication strategies. In this context, cytotoxicity tests confirm the viability of cells and thus demonstrating biocompatibility of this class of copolymers.
KW  - 3D printing
KW  - (AB)\(_{n}\) segmented copolymers
KW  - biocompatibility
KW  - melt electrowriting
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-224513
VL  - 222
IS  - 1
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Trujillo‐Viera, Jonathan
A1  - El‐Merahbi, Rabih
A1  - Schmidt, Vanessa
A1  - Karwen, Till
A1  - Loza‐Valdes, Angel
A1  - Strohmeyer, Akim
A1  - Reuter, Saskia
A1  - Noh, Minhee
A1  - Wit, Magdalena
A1  - Hawro, Izabela
A1  - Mocek, Sabine
A1  - Fey, Christina
A1  - Mayer, Alexander E.
A1  - Löffler, Mona C.
A1  - Wilhelmi, Ilka
A1  - Metzger, Marco
A1  - Ishikawa, Eri
A1  - Yamasaki, Sho
A1  - Rau, Monika
A1  - Geier, Andreas
A1  - Hankir, Mohammed
A1  - Seyfried, Florian
A1  - Klingenspor, Martin
A1  - Sumara, Grzegorz
T1  - Protein Kinase D2 drives chylomicron‐mediated lipid transport in the intestine and promotes obesity
JF  - EMBO Molecular Medicine
N2  - Lipids are the most energy‐dense components of the diet, and their overconsumption promotes obesity and diabetes. Dietary fat content has been linked to the lipid processing activity by the intestine and its overall capacity to absorb triglycerides (TG). However, the signaling cascades driving intestinal lipid absorption in response to elevated dietary fat are largely unknown. Here, we describe an unexpected role of the protein kinase D2 (PKD2) in lipid homeostasis. We demonstrate that PKD2 activity promotes chylomicron‐mediated TG transfer in enterocytes. PKD2 increases chylomicron size to enhance the TG secretion on the basolateral side of the mouse and human enterocytes, which is associated with decreased abundance of APOA4. PKD2 activation in intestine also correlates positively with circulating TG in obese human patients. Importantly, deletion, inactivation, or inhibition of PKD2 ameliorates high‐fat diet‐induced obesity and diabetes and improves gut microbiota profile in mice. Taken together, our findings suggest that PKD2 represents a key signaling node promoting dietary fat absorption and may serve as an attractive target for the treatment of obesity.
KW  - chylomicron
KW  - fat absorption
KW  - intestine
KW  - obesity
KW  - protein kinase D2/PKD2/PRKD2
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-239018
VL  - 13
IS  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bakirci, Ezgi
A1  - Frank, Andreas
A1  - Gumbel, Simon
A1  - Otto, Paul F.
A1  - Fürsattel, Eva
A1  - Tessmer, Ingrid
A1  - Schmidt, Hans‐Werner
A1  - Dalton, Paul D.
T1  - Melt Electrowriting of Amphiphilic Physically Crosslinked Segmented Copolymers
JF  - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
N2  - Various (AB)\(_{n}\) and (ABAC)\(_{n}\) segmented copolymers with hydrophilic and hydrophobic segments are processed via melt electrowriting (MEW). Two different (AB)\(_{n}\) segmented copolymers composed of bisurea segments and hydrophobic poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) or hydrophilic poly(propylene oxide)-poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide) (PPO-PEG-PPO) segments, while the amphiphilic (ABAC)\(_{n}\) segmented copolymers consist of bisurea segments in the combination of hydrophobic PDMS segments and hydrophilic PPO-PEG-PPO segments with different ratios, are explored. All copolymer compositions are processed using the same conditions, including nozzle temperature, applied voltage, and collector distance, while changes in applied pressure and collector speed altered the fiber diameter in the range of 7 and 60 µm. All copolymers showed excellent processability with MEW, well-controlled fiber stacking, and inter-layer bonding. Notably, the surfaces of all four copolymer fibers are very smooth when visualized using scanning electron microscopy. However, the fibers show different roughness demonstrated with atomic force microscopy. The non-cytotoxic copolymers increased L929 fibroblast attachment with increasing PDMS content while the different copolymer compositions result in a spectrum of physical properties.
KW  - melt electrowriting
KW  - 3D printing
KW  - additive manufacturing
KW  - electrohydrodynamics
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-257572
VL  - 222
IS  - 22
ER  -