The metagenomics of soil

R Daniel - Nature reviews microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
Phylogenetic surveys of soil ecosystems have shown that the number of prokaryotic species
found in a single sample exceeds that of known cultured prokaryotes. Soil metagenomics …

Bacterial and archaeal α-amylases: diversity and amelioration of the desirable characteristics for industrial applications

D Mehta, T Satyanarayana - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Industrial enzyme market has been projected to reach US $6.2 billion by 2020. Major
reasons for continuous rise in the global sales of microbial enzymes are because of …

Metagenomics, biotechnology with non-culturable microbes

C Schmeisser, H Steele, WR Streit - Applied microbiology and …, 2007 - Springer
Metagenomics as a new field of research has been developed over the past decade to
elucidate the genomes of the non-cultured microbes with the goal to better understand …

Metagenome analysis: a powerful tool for enzyme bioprospecting

A Madhavan, R Sindhu, B Parameswaran… - Applied biochemistry …, 2017 - Springer
Microorganisms are found throughout every corner of nature, and vast number of
microorganisms is difficult to cultivate by classical microbiological techniques. The advent of …

Novel hydrolase diversity retrieved from a metagenome library of bovine rumen microflora

M Ferrer, OV Golyshina, TN Chernikova… - Environmental …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
A metagenome expression library of bulk DNA extracted from the rumen content of a dairy
cow was established in a phage lambda vector and activity‐based screening employed to …

Friends or foes—microbial interactions in nature

N Weiland-Bräuer - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Microorganisms like bacteria, archaea, fungi, microalgae, and viruses
mostly form complex interactive networks within the ecosystem rather than existing as single …

Metagenomics for mining new genetic resources of microbial communities

M Ferrer, A Beloqui, KN Timmis… - Journal of molecular …, 2009 - karger.com
Recent progress has revealed that the capture of genetic resources of complex microbial
communities in metagenome libraries allows the discovery of a richness of new enzymatic …

Advances in recovery of novel biocatalysts from metagenomes

HL Steele, KE Jaeger, R Daniel… - Journal of molecular …, 2009 - karger.com
Metagenomics has accelerated the process of discovery of novel biocatalysts by enabling
scientists to tap directly into the entire diversity of enzymes held within natural microbial …

Maltogenic amylase: Its structure, molecular modification, and effects on starch and starch-based products

P Liu, L Ma, W Duan, W Gao, Y Fang, L Guo… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Maltogenic amylase (MAA)(EC3. 2.1. 133), a member of the glycoside hydrolase
family 13 that mainly produces α-maltose, is widely used to extend the shelf life of bread as it …

Soil eukaryotic functional diversity, a metatranscriptomic approach

J Bailly, L Fraissinet-Tachet, MC Verner… - The ISME …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
To appreciate the functional diversity of communities of soil eukaryotic micro-organisms we
evaluated an experimental approach based on the construction and screening of a cDNA …