Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans

D Slade, M Radman - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Deinococcus radiodurans is a robust bacterium best known for its capacity to repair massive
DNA damage efficiently and accurately. It is extremely resistant to many DNA-damaging …

Extremely thermophilic microorganisms as metabolic engineering platforms for production of fuels and industrial chemicals

BM Zeldes, MW Keller, AJ Loder, CT Straub… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Enzymes from extremely thermophilic microorganisms have been of technological interest
for some time because of their ability to catalyze reactions of industrial significance at …

Comparative Genomics of Multidrug Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

PE Fournier, D Vallenet, V Barbe, S Audic… - PLoS …, 2006 - journals.plos.org
Acinetobacter baumannii is a species of nonfermentative gram-negative bacteria commonly
found in water and soil. This organism was susceptible to most antibiotics in the 1970s. It …

Study of ciprofloxacin biodegradation by a Thermus sp. isolated from pharmaceutical sludge

L Pan, J Li, C Li, G Yu, Y Wang - Journal of hazardous materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Ciprofloxacin (CIP) is an antibiotic drug frequently detected in manure compost and is
difficult to decompose at high temperatures, resulting in a potential threat to the environment …

Structure studies of the CRISPR-Csm complex reveal mechanism of co-transcriptional interference

L You, J Ma, J Wang, D Artamonova, M Wang, L Liu… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Csm, a type III-A CRISPR-Cas interference complex, is a CRISPR RNA (crRNA)-guided
RNase that also possesses target RNA-dependent DNase and cyclic oligoadenylate (cOA) …

[HTML][HTML] Natural genetic transformation: prevalence, mechanisms and function

O Johnsborg, V Eldholm, LS Håvarstein - Research in microbiology, 2007 - Elsevier
Studies show that gene acquisition through natural transformation has contributed
significantly to the adaptation and ecological diversification of several bacterial species …

Thermus thermophilus Argonaute functions in the completion of DNA replication

SM Jolly, I Gainetdinov, K Jouravleva, H Zhang… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
In many eukaryotes, Argonaute proteins, guided by short RNA sequences, defend cells
against transposons and viruses. In the eubacterium Thermus thermophilus, the DNA …

The repetitive DNA elements called CRISPRs and their associated genes: evidence of horizontal transfer among prokaryotes

JS Godde, A Bickerton - Journal of Molecular evolution, 2006 - Springer
We have found direct DNA repeats 21–47 bp in length interspersed with nonrepetitive
sequences of similar length, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats …

Polyketide synthases and nonribosomal peptide synthetases: the emerging view from bacterial genomics

S Donadio, P Monciardini, M Sosio - Natural product reports, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: bacterial genome sequences to 2005 and post-genomic literature to June 2006 A
total of 223 complete bacterial genomes are analyzed, with 281 citations, for the presence of …

New extremophilic lipases and esterases from metagenomics

O López-López, ME Cerdan… - Current Protein and …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Lipolytic enzymes catalyze the hydrolysis of ester bonds in the presence of water. In media
with low water content or in organic solvents, they can catalyze synthetic reactions such as …