Copper is an essential micronutrient involved in fundamental life processes but using a bioluminescence (BL) probe to selectively sense Cu2+ in vitro or image Cu2+ in vivo is still unavailable.
Plants synthesize a variety of metabolites which can be classified into two categories, namely, primary metabolites which are involved in essential metabolic processes of the plant and secondary metabolites which are not involved in the fundamental life processes of plant but in a variety of other roles which help plants in their survival and reproduction [ 1– 4].
This information determines the sequence of amino acid building blocks of protein molecules, which include, among others, structural proteins such as collagen, respiratory proteins such as hemoglobin, and numerous enzymes responsible for the organism's fundamental life processes.
To test for endosymbioses, we explicitly search all Pfam descriptors for the appearance of these four terms representing fundamental life processes.
They pass on genes that are essential for fundamental life processes such as translation, replication, energy production, and cellular compartmentalization (Jain et al. 2003).
Iron-sulfur [Fe-S] clusters are prosthetic groups required to sustain fundamental life processes including electron transfer, metabolic reactions, sensing, signaling, gene regulation and stabilization of protein structures.
In fact, iscS is also found in Citrobacter spp., Klesiella spp., and Morganella spp. using BLASTN indicating that this cysteine desulfurase gene may be ubiquitous in different enterobacterial strains, thus supporting its suggested importance in sustaining fundamental life processes [ 16].
Metabolism is a fundamental process of life.
DNA replication is a fundamental process to the life of a cell, but several challenges can threaten genome integrity by interfering with progression, stability, and proper resumption of replication after fork arrest [ 10].
The switch to reproductive development is a fundamental process in the plant life cycle.
