Abstract Proksee (https://proksee. ca) provides users with a powerful, easy-to-use, and
feature-rich system for assembling, annotating, analysing, and visualizing bacterial …

Identifying and characterizing mobile genetic elements in sequencing data is essential for
understanding their diversity, ecology, biotechnological applications and impact on public …

Prokaryotic Argonautes (pAgos) are an emerging class of programmable endonucleases
that are believed to be more flexible than existing CRISPR–Cas systems and have …

The Lachnospiraceae is a family of anaerobic bacteria in the class Clostridia with potential
to advance the bio-economy and intestinal therapeutics. Some species of Lachnospiraceae …

Plasmids are mobile genetic elements found in many clades of Archaea and Bacteria. They
drive horizontal gene transfer, impacting ecological and evolutionary processes within …

Several immune pathways in humans conjugate ubiquitin-like proteins to virus and host
molecules as a means of antiviral defence,,,–. Here we studied an antiphage defence …

Toxic bacterial modules such as toxin–antitoxin systems hold antimicrobial potential, though
successful applications are rare. Here we show that in Vibrio cholerae the cyclic …

Sulfoquinovose (SQ) is one of the most abundant organosulfur compounds in the biosphere,
and its biosynthesis and degradation can represent an important contribution to the sulfur …

Plant microbiomes are assembled and modified through a complex milieu of biotic and
abiotic factors. Despite dynamic and fluctuating contributing variables, specific host …

The genus Clostridium is a large and diverse group within the Bacillota (formerly Firmicutes),
whose members can encode useful complex traits such as solvent production, gas …