Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle

MA Moran, EB Kujawinski, WF Schroer, SA Amin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
One-quarter of photosynthesis-derived carbon on Earth rapidly cycles through a set of short-
lived seawater metabolites that are generated from the activities of marine phytoplankton …

The best practice for microbiome analysis using R

T Wen, G Niu, T Chen, Q Shen, J Yuan, YX Liu - Protein & Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With the gradual maturity of sequencing technology, many microbiome studies have
published, driving the emergence and advance of related analysis tools. R language is the …

MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters

BR Terlouw, K Blin, JC Navarro-Munoz… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With an ever-increasing amount of (meta) genomic data being deposited in sequence
databases,(meta) genome mining for natural product biosynthetic pathways occupies a …

microbeMASST: a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry search tool for microbial metabolomics data

S Zuffa, R Schmid, A Bauermeister, PW P. Gomes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract microbeMASST, a taxonomically informed mass spectrometry (MS) search tool,
tackles limited microbial metabolite annotation in untargeted metabolomics experiments …

<? mode longmeta?> SPIRE: a Searchable, Planetary-scale mIcrobiome REsource

TSB Schmidt, A Fullam, P Ferretti, A Orakov… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Meta'omic data on microbial diversity and function accrue exponentially in public
repositories, but derived information is often siloed according to data type, study or sampled …

Mirusviruses link herpesviruses to giant viruses

M Gaïa, L Meng, E Pelletier, P Forterre, C Vanni… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
DNA viruses have a major influence on the ecology and evolution of cellular organisms,,–,
but their overall diversity and evolutionary trajectories remain elusive. Here we carried out a …

A genomic catalogue of soil microbiomes boosts mining of biodiversity and genetic resources

B Ma, C Lu, Y Wang, J Yu, K Zhao, R Xue… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soil harbors a vast expanse of unidentified microbes, termed as microbial dark matter,
presenting an untapped reservoir of microbial biodiversity and genetic resources, but has …

Temperaturemediated microbial carbon utilization in China's lakes

Y Guo, S Gu, K Wu, AJ Tanentzap, J Yu… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microbes play an important role in aquatic carbon cycling but we have a limited
understanding of their functional responses to changes in temperature across large …

Global distribution of marine microplastics and potential for biodegradation

B Chen, Z Zhang, T Wang, H Hu, G Qin, T Lu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics are a growing marine environmental concern globally due to their high
abundance and persistent degradation. We created a global map for predicting marine …

Advanced methods for natural products discovery: bioactivity screening, dereplication, metabolomics profiling, genomic sequencing, databases and informatic tools …

SP Gaudêncio, E Bayram, L Lukić Bilela, M Cueto… - Marine drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Natural Products (NP) are essential for the discovery of novel drugs and products for
numerous biotechnological applications. The NP discovery process is expensive and time …