The shikimate pathway: gateway to metabolic diversity

VV Shende, KD Bauman, BS Moore - Natural Product Reports, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1997 to 2023 The shikimate pathway is the metabolic process responsible for the
biosynthesis of the aromatic amino acids phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan. Seven …

Polyamine-containing natural products: structure, bioactivity, and biosynthesis

Q Long, W Zhou, H Zhou, Y Tang, W Chen… - Natural Product …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2005 to August, 2023 Polyamine-containing natural products (NPs) have been
isolated from a wide range of terrestrial and marine organisms and most of them exhibit …

Mineral-bound trace metals as cofactors for anaerobic biological nitrogen fixation

Y Sheng, O Baars, D Guo, J Whitham… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenase is the only known biological enzyme capable of reducing N2 to bioavailable
NH3. Most nitrogenases use Mo as a metallocofactor, while alternative cofactors V and Fe …

Plastics select for distinct early colonizing microbial populations with reproducible traits across environmental gradients

RP Bos, D Kaul, ER Zettler, JM Hoffman… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Little is known about early plastic biofilm assemblage dynamics and successional changes
over time. By incubating virgin microplastics along oceanic transects and comparing …

Responses of globally important phytoplankton species to olivine dissolution products and implications for carbon dioxide removal via ocean alkalinity enhancement

DA Hutchins, FX Fu, SC Yang, SG John… - …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are leading to global temperature increases,
ocean acidification, and significant ecosystem impacts. Given current emissions trajectories …

Siderophores as an iron source for picocyanobacteria in deep chlorophyll maximum layers of the oligotrophic ocean

SL Hogle, T Hackl, RM Bundy, J Park… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the most abundant photosynthesizing organisms
in the oceans. Gene content variation among picocyanobacterial populations in separate …

Bioavailability of molybdenite to support nitrogen fixation on early Earth by an anoxygenic phototroph

X Zhou, Y Sheng, Y Zheng, M Jiang, M Wang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Biological nitrogen fixation, which converts atmospheric dinitrogen to ammonia, is catalyzed
mostly by Mo-nitrogenase and is a primary contributor to bioavailable nitrogen on early …

Enhanced cadmium phytoextraction efficiency of ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) by porous media immobilized Enterobacter sp. TY-1

Y Li, Y Zhang, X Chen, Y Liu, S Li, H Liu, H Xu - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Although studies on immobilized microorganisms have been conducted, their performance
remains unclear for enhancing plants to remediate cadmium (Cd)-contaminated soil. In this …

Molecular mechanisms for iron uptake and homeostasis in marine eukaryotic phytoplankton

RH Lampe, TH Coale, JB McQuaid… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The micronutrient iron is essential for phytoplankton growth due to its central role in a wide
variety of key metabolic processes including photosynthesis and nitrate assimilation. As a …

Optimization of Siderophore Production in Three Marine Bacterial Isolates along with Their Heavy-Metal Chelation and Seed Germination Potential Determination

M Sarvepalli, A Velidandi, N Korrapati - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Siderophores are low-molecular-weight and high-affinity molecules produced by bacteria
under iron-limited conditions. Due to the low iron (III)(Fe+ 3) levels in surface waters in the …