Phylum Gemmatimonadota and its role in the environment

I Mujakić, K Piwosz, M Koblížek - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacteria are an important part of every ecosystem that they inhabit on Earth. Environmental
microbiologists usually focus on a few dominant bacterial groups, neglecting less abundant …

SulfAtlas, the sulfatase database: state of the art and new developments

M Stam, P Lelièvre, M Hoebeke, E Corre… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract SulfAtlas (https://sulfatlas. sb-roscoff. fr/) is a knowledge-based resource dedicated
to a sequence-based classification of sulfatases. Currently four sulfatase families exist (S1 …

Enterococcus peptidoglycan remodeling promotes checkpoint inhibitor cancer immunotherapy

ME Griffin, J Espinosa, JL Becker, JD Luo, TS Carroll… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The antitumor efficacy of cancer immunotherapy can correlate with the presence of certain
bacterial species within the gut microbiome. However, many of the molecular mechanisms …

DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function

M Shaffer, MA Borton, BB McGivern… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Microbial and viral communities transform the chemistry of Earth's ecosystems, yet the
specific reactions catalyzed by these biological engines are hard to decode due to the …

Assembly of 43 human Y chromosomes reveals extensive complexity and variation

P Hallast, P Ebert, M Loftus, F Yilmaz, PA Audano… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The prevalence of highly repetitive sequences within the human Y chromosome has
prevented its complete assembly to date and led to its systematic omission from genomic …

Viral Metagenomics Revealed Sendai Virus and Coronavirus Infection of Malayan Pangolins (Manis javanica)

P Liu, W Chen, JP Chen - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Pangolins are endangered animals in urgent need of protection. Identifying and cataloguing
the viruses carried by pangolins is a logical approach to evaluate the range of potential …

Complete biosynthesis of cannabinoids and their unnatural analogues in yeast

X Luo, MA Reiter, L d'Espaux, J Wong, CM Denby… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cannabis sativa L. has been cultivated and used around the globe for its medicinal
properties for millennia 1. Some cannabinoids, the hallmark constituents of Cannabis, and …

Phage anti-CBASS and anti-Pycsar nucleases subvert bacterial immunity

SJ Hobbs, T Wein, A Lu, BR Morehouse, J Schnabel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The cyclic oligonucleotide-based antiphage signalling system (CBASS) and the pyrimidine
cyclase system for antiphage resistance (Pycsar) are antiphage defence systems in diverse …

AutoMLST: an automated web server for generating multi-locus species trees highlighting natural product potential

M Alanjary, K Steinke, N Ziemert - Nucleic Acids Research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the evolutionary background of a bacterial isolate has applications for a wide
range of research. However generating an accurate species phylogeny remains …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal Planet description sheets: 1284–1382

PW Crous, ER Osieck, Ž Jurjević, J Boers… - … and Evolution of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as
follows: Antartica, Cladosporium austrolitorale from coastal sea sand. Australia …