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Adverse childhood experiences are associated with later development of psychosis, particularly auditory verbal hallucinations and delusions. Although auditory hallucinations have been proposed to be misattributed inner speech, the relation between childhood adversity and inner speech has not been previously investigated. The first aim was to test whether childhood adversity is associated with inner speech in persons with psychosis. The second aim was to test for the influence of inner speech on the association between childhood adversity and auditory hallucinations. Our final aim was to test for evidence that would falsify the null hypothesis that inner speech does not impact the relationship between childhood adversity and delusions. In persons with psychosis, we found a positive association between childhood adversity and dialogic inner speech. There was a significant total effect of childhood adversity on auditory hallucinations, including an indirect effect of childhood adversity on auditory hallucinations via dialogic inner speech. There was also a significant total effect of childhood adversity on delusions, but no evidence of any indirect effect via inner speech. These findings suggest that childhood adversities are associated with inner speech and psychosis. The relation between childhood adversity and auditory hallucination severity could be partially influenced by dialogic inner speech. Thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) composed of nonpolar triblock copolymers constitute a broadly important class of (re)processable network-forming macromolecules employed in ubiquitous commercial applications. Physical gelation of these materials in the presence of a low-volatility oil that is midblock-selective yields tunably soft TPE gels (TPEGs) that are suitable for emergent technologies ranging from electroactive, phase-change and shape-memory responsive media to patternable soft substrates for flexible electronics and microfluidics. Many of the high-volume TPEs used for these purposes possess styrenic endblocks that are inherently limited by a relatively low glass transition temperature. To mitigate this shortcoming, we sulfonate and subsequently complex (and physically crosslink) the endblocks with trivalent Al3+ ions. Doing so reduces the effective hydrophilicity of the sulfonated endblocks, as evidenced by water uptake measurements, while concurrently enhancing the thermomechanical stability of the corresponding TPEGs. Chemical modification results, as well as morphological and property development, are investigated as functions of the degree of sulfonation, complexation and TPEG composition. Acetoin (3-hydroxy-2-butanone) is an important physiological metabolic product in many microorganisms. Acetoin breakdown is catalyzed by the acetoin dehydrogenase enzyme system (AoDH ES), which is encoded by acoABCL operon. In this study, we analyzed transcription and regulation of the aco operon in Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). RT-PCR analysis revealed that acoABCL forms one transcriptional unit. The Sigma 54 controlled consensus sequence was located 12 bp from the acoA transcriptional start site (TSS). β-galactosidase assay revealed that aco operon transcription is induced by acetoin, controlled by sigma 54, and positively regulated by AcoR. The HTH domain of AcoR recognized and specifically bound to a 13-bp inverted repeat region that participates in 30-bp fragment mapping 81 bp upstream of the acoA TSS. The GAF domain in AcoR represses enhancer transcriptional activity at the acoA promoter. Transcriptions of the aco operon and acoR were repressed by glucose via CcpA, and CcpA specifically bound to sequences within the acoR promoter fragment. In the acoABCL and acoR mutants, acetoin use was abolished, suggesting that the aco operon is essential for utilization of acetoin. The data presented here improve our understanding of the regulation of the aco gene cluster in bacteria. The expression of attack phase (AP) and growth phase (GP) genes of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus (B. bacteriovorus) was compared in the presence of Gram-negative [Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae)] and Gram-positive [Enterococcus faecium (E. faecium)] prey, using relative quantitative polymerase chain reaction (relative qPCR) assays. The genes bd0108 (pili retraction/extrusion) and merRNA (massively expressed riboswitch RNA) were highly expressed in the AP cells [3.99- to 6.06-fold (E. coli), 3.91- to 7.05-fold (K. pneumoniae) and 2.91- to 7.30-fold (E. faecium)]. The fliC1 gene (flagella filament) was also expressed at a high level in the AP cells however, after 240 min of co-culture with E. faecium the expression of fliC1 remained low (at 0.759-fold), while in the presence of the Gram-negative prey fliC1 expression increased. Romidepsin mw Additionally, the GP genes bd0816 (peptidoglycan-modifying enzyme) and groES1 (chaperone protein) were not induced in the presence of E. faecium. However, they were expressed in the early GP and GP of B. bacteriovorus after exposure to the Gram-negative prey. It can thus be concluded that B. bacteriovorus senses the presence of potential prey when exposed to Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, however the GP genes are not induced in co-culture with E. faecium. The results from this study thus indicate that B. bacteriovorus does not actively grow in the presence of E. faecium and the second predatory cue (induces active growth of B. bacteriovorus) is lacking when B. bacteriovorus is co-cultured with the Gram-positive prey. A glycal based synthesis of (+)-bulgecinine, 3-hydroxy-2,5-dihydroxymethylpyrrolidine and 2-oxapyrrolizidin-3-ones proceeding through a common intermediate is reported. The key step in the work presented here is a two-step conversion of 4,6-di-O-benzyl-d-glucal to 2,3-dideoxy-2-tosylamido-d-glucose. This manuscript reports the first carbohydrate based approach to the synthesis of (+)-bulgecinine and the whole sequence has been accomplished with complete stereochemical integrity without the formation of mixture of products in any of these steps. Chemical synthesis of the complex tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the O-antigen from Pseudomonas putida BIM B-1100 is accomplished in the form of its 2-aminoethyl glycoside to leave the scope for further glycoconjugate formation without hampering the anomeric stereochemistry. A [2 + 2] strategy is followed to complete the total synthesis and a late stage TEMPO mediated oxidation is used to install the required uronic acid. A radical mediated 6-deoxygenation with subsequent protecting group manipulation strategy is used for the preparation of the rare D-FucpNAc and D-Quip3NAc derivatives from suitable d-glucosamine derivatives.