The soil microbial community fulfils various functions, such as nutrient cycling and carbon
(C) sequestration, therefore contributing to maintenance of soil fertility and mitigation of …

Trace metals are inorganic elements that are required for all organisms in very low
quantities. They serve as cofactors and activators of metalloproteins involved in a variety of …

Most of the described species in kingdom Fungi are contained in two phyla, the Ascomycota
and the Basidiomycota (subkingdom Dikarya). As a result, our understanding of the biology …

Translation elongation is a key step of protein synthesis, during which the nascent
polypeptide chain extends by one amino acid residue during one elongation cycle. More …

Methionine (Met) can be oxidized to methionine sulfoxide (MetO), which exist as R-and S-
diastereomers. Present in all three domains of life, methionine sulfoxide reductases (MSR) …

Selenium is a fascinating element that has a long history, most of which documents it as a
deleterious element to health. In more recent years, selenium has been found to be an …

The first genome sequenced of a eukaryotic organism was for Saccharomyces cerevisiae,
as reported in 1996, but it was more than 10 years before any of the zygomycete fungi …

Living systems are built from a small subset of the atomic elements, including the bulk
macronutrients (C, H, N, O, P, S) and ions (Mg, K, Na, Ca) together with a small but variable …

The relatively narrow spectrum of chemical elements within the microbial 'biochemical
palate'limits the reach of biotechnology, because several added-value compounds can only …

Melanins are a family of heterogeneous biopolymers found ubiquitously across plant,
animal, bacterial, and fungal kingdoms where they act variously as pigments and as …