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From Microbiome to Traits: Designing Synthetic Microbial Communities for Improved Crop Resiliency

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020
Plants teem with microorganisms, whose tremendous diversity and role in plant–microbe interactions are being increasingly explored. Microbial communities create a functional bond with their hosts and express beneficial traits capable of enhancing plant ...
R. S. D. de Souza, Jaderson Silveira Leite Armanhi, P. Arruda   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini, Nicolò Antonelli, Gianluca Molla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genome analysis of Cephalotrichum gorgonifer and identification of the biosynthetic pathway for rasfonin, an inhibitor of KRAS dependent cancer

Fungal Biology and Biotechnology, 2023
Background Fungi are important sources for bioactive compounds that find their applications in many important sectors like in the pharma-, food- or agricultural industries.
Andreas Schüller, Lena Studt-Reinhold, Harald Berger, Lucia Silvestrini, Roman Labuda, Ulrich Güldener, Markus Gorfer, Markus Bacher, Maria Doppler, Erika Gasparotto, Arianna Gattesco, Michael Sulyok, Joseph Strauss   +12 more
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Genetic basis of microbial carotenogenesis

International Microbiology, 2003
The synthesis of carotenoids begins with the formation of a phytoene from geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate, a well conserved step in all carotenogenic organisms and catalyzed by a phytoene synthase, an enzyme encoded by the crtB ( spy) genes. The next step is the dehydrogenation of the phytoene, which is carried out by phytoene dehydrogenase.
C, Sieiro, M, Poza, T, de Miguel, T G, Villa   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Antibiofilm activity of a chionodracine‐derived peptide by NMR‐based metabolomics of cell‐free supernatant of Acinetobacter baumannii clinical strains

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
KHS‐Cnd peptide is able to impair biofilm formation and disaggregate mature biofilms in Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates. Differences in extracellular metabolites reflect changes in biofilm metabolism due to KHS‐Cnd treatment. Among the differentially represented extracellular metabolites upon KHS‐Cnd treatment, the significantly altered ...
Fernando Porcelli, Enrico Landi, Francesco Maiurano, Irene Paris, Rosanna Papa, Marco Artini, Laura Selan, Stefano Borocci, Francesco Buonocore, Esther Imperlini   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Salmonella biofilm formation diminishes bacterial proliferation in the C. elegans intestine

Biofilm
Non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars are a significant global cause of foodborne infections, owing their transmission success to the formation of biofilms.
Ines Thiers, Maries Lissens, Hanne Langie, Bram Lories, Hans Steenackers   +4 more
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The bacterial cell cycle checkpoint protein Obg and its role in programmed cell death

Microbial Cell, 2016
The phenomenon of programmed cell death (PCD), in which cells initiate their own demise, is not restricted to multicellular organisms. Unicellular organisms, both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, also possess pathways that mediate PCD.
Liselot Dewachter, Natalie Verstraeten, Maarten Fauvart, Jan Michiels   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association of gut microbiota with metabolism in juvenile Atlantic salmon

Microbiome, 2020
The gut microbiome plays a key role in animal health and metabolism through the intricate functional interconnection between the feed, gut microbes, and the host.
H. Dvergedal, S. R. Sandve, I. L. Angell, G. Klemetsdal, K. Rudi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Microbial Ecology of Bacterial Vaginosis: A Fine Scale Resolution Metagenomic Analysis [PDF]

, 2010
The vaginal microbiota play an important protective role in maintaining the health of women. Disruption of the mutualistic relationship that exists between bacterial communities in the vagina and their hosts can lead to bacterial vaginosis (BV), a ...
Jacques Ravel, Larry J. Forney
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C2α‐carbanion‐protonating glutamate discloses tradeoffs between substrate accommodation and reaction rate in actinobacterial 2‐hydroxyacyl‐CoA lyase

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Enzymes of the 2‐hydroxyacyl‐CoA lyase group catalyze the condensation of formyl‐CoA with aldehydes or ketones. Thus, by structural adaptation of active sites, practically any pharmaceutically and industrially important 2‐hydroxyacid could be biotechnologically synthesized. Combining crystal structure analysis, active site mutations and kinetic assays,
Michael Zahn, Barbara Seroka, Ryszard Lazny, Zenon Lotowski, Thore Rohwerder   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source