The phylum Actinobacteria harbors many important human pathogens and also provides
one of the richest sources of natural products, including numerous antibiotics and other …

Studies of nitrogen-fixing properties among the Gram-positive Actinobacteria revealed that
some species of Arthrobacter, Agromyces, Corynebacterium, Mycobacterium …

Particulate matter (PM) air pollution poses a formidable public health threat to the city of
Beijing. Among the various hazards of PM pollutants, microorganisms in PM2. 5 and PM10 …

Processes influencing the transport of airborne bacterial communities in the atmosphere are
poorly understood. Here, we report comprehensive and quantitative evidence of the key …

Frankia strains are nitrogen-fixing soil actinobacteria that can form root symbioses with
actinorhizal plants. Phylogenetically, symbiotic frankiae can be divided into three clusters …

The A tacama D esert is the driest and oldest desert on E arth. Eleven years ago, the Y
ungay region was established as the driest site of this hyperarid desert and also close to the …

Stones in arid environments are inhabited by actinobacteria of the family
Geodermatophilaceae like the genera Blastococcus and Modestobacter frequently isolated …

The Geodermatophilaceae are unique model systems to study the ability to thrive on or
within stones and their proteogenomes (referring to the whole protein arsenal encoded by …

Desiccation resistance and a high intracellular Mn/Fe ratio contribute to ionizing radiation
resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans. We hypothesized that this was a general …

Selenocysteine (Sec or U) is encoded by UGA, a stop codon reassigned by a Sec‐specific
elongation factor and a distinctive RNA structure. To discover possible code variations in …