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Surface‐Driven Protocell Formation in Geologically Relevant Early Earth Environment

ChemSystemsChem, Volume 8, Issue 2, March 2026.
Illustration of a prebiotic early‐Earth environment showing cell‐like protocells (blue spheres) and other complex organic molecules (pink and green spheres) distributed across terrestrial surfaces and within subsurface niches. Volcanic landscapes and mineral‐rich substrates provide diverse geochemical settings for the assembly and evolution of ...
Pamela Knoll, Silvia Holler
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Discovering PETases: An Interlink Between Engineering Enzymes and Microbiomes

Environmental Microbiology, Volume 28, Issue 3, March 2026.
In this review‐type article, we discuss some recent trends in the identification of polyethylene terephthalate‐degrading enzymes (PETases) from nature. We highlight that the discovery of novel PETases can be improved by an interlink between reshaping microbiomes and engineering proteins.
Diego Javier Jiménez, Alexandre Soares Rosado   +1 more
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The Biocatalytic Potential of Extremophiles and Extremozymes

Food Technology and Biotechnology, 2004
Extremophiles are bizarre microorganisms that can grow and thrive in extreme environments, which were formerly considered too hostile to support life.
Walter Steiner, Joseph Gomes
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Engineering next‐generation crops through CRISPR‐mediated horizontal gene transfer

New Phytologist, Volume 249, Issue 6, Page 2683-2689, March 2026.
Summary Crops increasingly face overlapping stresses such as heat, drought, salinity, and pathogens that conventional breeding or genome editing rarely overcome in combination. To address this, we propose CRISPR‐enabled horizontal gene transfer (CRISPR‐HGT) as a programmable framework that recreates the evolutionary process by which plants historically
Madhab Kumar Sen, Amit Roy, Rajeev K. Varshney, Amrita Chakraborty   +3 more
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Plant structural biology: Emerging technologies and future biological insights

The Plant Journal, Volume 125, Issue 5, March 2026.
SUMMARY Plant structural biology is entering a new era. Advances in cryo‐electron microscopy, tomography, and AI‐based prediction are making it possible to study plant macromolecular machines at near‐atomic resolution, including complexes that long resisted analysis by traditional approaches.
Jonas M. Böhm, Veronica G. Maurino
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Extremophiles in biofuel synthesis [PDF]

Environmental Technology, 2010
The current global energy situation has demonstrated an urgent need for the development of alternative fuel sources to the continually diminishing fossil fuel reserves. Much research to address this issue focuses on the development of financially viable technologies for the production of biofuels.
Desire, Barnard, Ana, Casanueva, Marla, Tuffin, Donald, Cowan   +3 more
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Structure and function of the Ts2631 endolysin of Thermus scotoductus phage vB_Tsc2631 with unique N-terminal extension used for peptidoglycan binding

Scientific Reports, 2019
To escape from hosts after completing their life cycle, bacteriophages often use endolysins, which degrade bacterial peptidoglycan. While mesophilic phages have been extensively studied, their thermophilic counterparts are not well characterized.
Magdalena Plotka, Enea Sancho-Vaello, Sebastian Dorawa, Anna-Karina Kaczorowska, Lukasz P. Kozlowski, Tadeusz Kaczorowski, Kornelius Zeth   +6 more
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Microbial Communities of Polymetallic Deposits’ Acidic Ecosystems of Continental Climatic Zone With High Temperature Contrasts

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Acid mine drainage (AMD) systems are globally widespread and are an important source of metal pollution in riverine and coastal systems. Microbial AMD communities have been extensively studied for their ability to thrive under extremely acidic conditions
Sergey N. Gavrilov, Aleksei A. Korzhenkov, Ilya V. Kublanov, Rafael Bargiela, Leonid V. Zamana, Alexandra A. Popova, Stepan V. Toshchakov, Peter N. Golyshin, Peter N. Golyshin, Olga V. Golyshina, Olga V. Golyshina   +10 more
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Residue-level determinants of the thermal stability of the extremophilic Ts2631 endolysin

Scientific Reports
In the face of the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance, peptidoglycan-degrading endolysins derived from bacteriophages offer a promising alternative to traditional antimicrobials.
Karolina Cieminska, Anna-Karina Kaczorowska, Lukasz Pawel Kozlowski, Marcin Gorniak, Olafur H. Fridjonsson, Gudmundur O. Hreggvidsson, Tadeusz Kaczorowski, Magdalena Plotka   +7 more
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Coupling Nitrogenous Organic Wastewater Treatment and Biorefinery via N‐Cycling Bacterium

Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 7, 3 February 2026.
The vast reservoir of nitrogenous organic pollutants in industrial wastewaters can serve as untapped carbon‐nitrogen resources. This study employs the newly discovered Paracoccus sp. ZQW‐1 as a versatile chassis to simultaneously achieve N‐methylpyrrolidone (NMP) wastewater depuration and polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) synthesis.
Ziqian Wang, Chunyu Du, Guanyu Zheng, Dahu Ding   +3 more
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