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A cumate-inducible promoter system for tuned gene expression and magnetosome overproduction in magnetotactic bacteria - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Magnetosomes are membrane-bound iron-rich organelles synthesized by magnetotactic bacteria as sensors for navigation in the Earth’s magnetic field. In the well-studied model Magnetospirillum gryphiswa...

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Giant viruses encode vitamin K–based redox modules for lipid modification | PNAS

Viruses with large DNA genomes often carry auxiliary metabolic genes that reprogram host physiology, yet their contributions to host redox and memb...

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Widespread horizontal transfer and strong selection enhance microbial adaptation in Antarctic soils - Nature Communications

Antarctica was long thought to be biologically static, but its microbial life is now known to be diverse and active. This study shows that widespread horizontal gene transfer and purifying selection d...

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Frontiers | Metagenomic insights into microbial communities of terrestrial mud volcanos: functional diversity of subsurface archaea and bacteria

Terrestrial mud volcanoes are surface geological features where fluidized sediments and gasses from the subsurface are discharged along a fracture network pr...

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Microbial metabolism: Reactivating the molecular motor of the biological methane generator

The methane-generating enzyme from methanogenic archaea must be reactivated via a dedicated system. New molecular insights demonstrate that a key component of the reactivation machinery is redox sensi...

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Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, half a century of archaeal research | Journal of Bacteriology

Research on the molecular biology of Archaea has long lagged behind studies of bacteria and eukaryotes. This gap was due, in part, to the initial absence of genetic tools and a general lack of interes...

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Seasonal temperature changes shape microbial community patterns and carbon‑fixing gene fluctuations in tidal flats - Communications Earth & Environment

Seasonal temperature changes shape microbial community patterns and carbon fixing gene fluctuations in tidal flats, and sulfurovum and sulfurimonas strains are primary contributors of carbon fixing ge...

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Unveiling the Taxonomic Diversity and Unprecedented Biosynthetic Treasure of the Phylum <i>Myxococcota</i>

Natural products remain vital sources of therapeutics, and the phylum Myxococcota constitutes an especially rich reservoir for them. Based on decades of microbiological efforts, we present 154 new My...

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Assessing transporter systems of methanogens to boost archaea biotechnology

Methanogenic archaea (methanogens) are key drivers of global carbon cycling and biomethane production, thriving in diverse anaerobic environments thro…

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Versatile microbial community responsible for nitrate turnover in a carbonate aquifer in southwest Germany

Graphical abstract showing that heterotrophic and lithotrophic denitrifying microorganisms contribute to the turnover of nitrate in the carbonate aquifer o

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Thermogenic methane beneath the North Greenland Ice Sheet revealed by isotopic and geological evidence - Nature Communications

This study shows that methane beneath the North Greenland Ice Sheet derives from deep geological sources and, unlike microbial methane found elsewhere in Greenland, it is largely independent of surfac...

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Immune safeguarding as a conserved principle of antiviral defence - Nature Reviews Microbiology

All organisms defend against viral infections through active immunity mechanisms that clear the virus or population-level mechanisms that cause regulated cell death. Recent research increasingly shows...

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Up-to-date, and taxonomy-curated mcrA reference databases for methanogen community profiling

The methyl-coenzyme M reductase subunit alpha gene (mcrA) is an important phylogenetic marker for high throughput ecological profiling of methanogenic…

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Designing fiber–gut microbiome interactions with active learning - Nature Chemical Biology

Dietary fibers are a primary energy source for gut bacteria and shape the composition and function of the microbiome. Now, an active learning approach integrating explainable machine learning, Bayesia...

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Frontiers | Rumen microbiome populations and methane production in adult male and female sheep

IntroductionMethane emissions from enteric fermentation in the rumen are a major contributor to the environmental footprint of ruminant livestock farming. Ma...

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A Global Methane Observation System to Reduce Uncertainty for Anthropogenic and Natural Sources and Sinks for Detecting and Attributing Climate Feedbacks

Conceptual illustration of a Global Ecosystem Methane Observing System (GEM-OS) integrating satellites, aircraft, atmospheric networks, and ecosystem measurements to quantify methane emissions from a...

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Putative Mechanisms for Initial Reaction of Anaerobic Benzene Degradation Presumably Involving a Flavoprotein

Anaerobic biodegradation of benzene by sulphate-reducing strain BzS1 was studied by combining genomics, differential proteomics and targeted metabolite analyses. Strain BzS1 has an exceptionally stre...

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Expansion of the Asgard archaeal virome and defensome provides insights into virus-host interactions - Microbiome

Background Asgard archaea, broadly considered as a group of archaea that exhibit the closest evolutionary relationship with eukaryotes, encode diverse defense systems and are infected by distinct viru...

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Hypophosphite Is a Naturally Occurring Selective Inhibitor of Syntrophic Methanogenesis

Abstract. Microbial methanogenesis is a major contributor to global warming, and methane fluxes represent a loss of energy and electrons from industrial ec

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Intermediate stages in the origin of metabolism at a phosphorylating hydrothermal vent

Enzymatic metabolism emerged from metal-catalyzed, aqueous reactions of H2, CO2, NH3 and phosphite at a hydrothermal vent.

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A climate-sensitive, contemporary multi-sphere bacterial metacommunity across the Tibetan Plateau

Abstract. The Tibetan Plateau hosts interacting atmospheric, glacier, river, lake, and soil ecosystems, yet the organization and climatic sensitivity of th

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Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space | PNAS

Establishing a coherent mapping of the relationships among all known proteins is crucial for elucidating processes of protein emergence and evoluti...

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Diversity and evolution of chromatin regulatory states across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics

This study introduces iChIP2, a low-input chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing method that profiles histone post-translational modifications (hPTMs) simultaneously across diverse eukar...

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Degradation of nitrogen-containing pharmaceuticals by anammox bacteria: Inhibition and nitrogen removal

Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria effectively remove nitrogen from wastewater and are widely used in sidestream processes, such as the t…

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