Advances in gap-filling genome-scale metabolic models and model-driven experiments lead to novel metabolic discoveries

S Pan, JL Reed - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Gap-filling is an important tool for making model-driven metabolic
discoveries.•Recent gap-filling algorithms are more efficient and/or show superior …

Organohalide respiratory chains: composition, topology and key enzymes

T Schubert, L Adrian, RG Sawers… - FEMS microbiology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The utilization of halogenated organic compounds as terminal electron acceptors separates
the phylogenetically diverse organohalide-respiring bacteria from other respiratory …

Comparative genomics of the genus Roseburia reveals divergent biosynthetic pathways that may influence colonic competition among species

ET Hillman, AJ Kozik, CA Hooker… - Microbial …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
Roseburia species are important denizens of the human gut microbiome that ferment
complex polysaccharides to butyrate as a terminal fermentation product, which influences …

Sustained bacterial N2O reduction at acidic pH

G He, G Chen, Y Xie, CM Swift, D Ramirez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a climate-active gas with emissions predicted to increase due to
agricultural intensification. Microbial reduction of N2O to dinitrogen (N2) is the major …

Geobacter sp. Strain IAE Dihaloeliminates 1,1,2-Trichloroethane and 1,2-Dichloroethane

L Jiang, Y Yang, H Jin, H Wang, CM Swift… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chlorinated ethanes, including 1, 2-dichloroethane (1, 2-DCA) and 1, 1, 2-trichloroethane (1,
1, 2-TCA), are widespread groundwater contaminants. Enrichment cultures XRDCA and …

Insights into origins and function of the unexplored majority of the reductive dehalogenase gene family as a result of genome assembly and ortholog group …

O Molenda, LAP Jácome, X Cao, CL Nesbø… - … Science: Processes & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organohalide respiring bacteria (OHRB) express reductive dehalogenases for energy
conservation and growth. Some of these enzymes catalyze the reductive dehalogenation of …

Purinyl-cobamide is a native prosthetic group of reductive dehalogenases

J Yan, M Bi, AK Bourdon, AT Farmer, PH Wang… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
Cobamides such as vitamin B12 are structurally conserved, cobalt-containing tetrapyrrole
biomolecules that have essential biochemical functions in all domains of life. In …

Vitamin B12 as a source of variability in isotope effects for chloroform biotransformation by Dehalobacter

E Phillips, K Picott, S Kümmel, O Bulka… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon and chlorine isotope effects for biotransformation of chloroform by different microbes
show significant variability. Reductive dehalogenases (RDase) enzymes contain different …

An integrative overview of genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses in organohalide respiration research

D Türkowsky, N Jehmlich, G Diekert… - FEMS microbiology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Organohalide respiration (OHR) is a crucial process in the global halogen cycle and of
interest for bioremediation. However, investigations on OHR are hampered by the restricted …

Sustained Dechlorination of Vinyl Chloride to Ethene in Dehalococcoides-Enriched Cultures Grown without Addition of Exogenous Vitamins and at Low pH

LA Puentes Jácome, PH Wang… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Trichloroethene (TCE) bioremediation has been demonstrated at field sites using microbial
cultures harboring TCE-respiring Dehalococcoides whose growth is cobalamin (vitamin …