Synthetic microbial consortia for biosynthesis and biodegradation: promises and challenges

S Che, Y Men - Journal of Industrial Microbiology and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Functional differentiation and metabolite exchange enable microbial consortia to perform
complex metabolic tasks and efficiently cycle the nutrients. Inspired by the cooperative …

Culture-independent molecular techniques for soil microbial ecology

PR Hirsch, TH Mauchline, IM Clark - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2010 - Elsevier
The advent of nucleic acid-based molecular methods, in particular the polymerase chain
reaction (PCR), has revolutionised the study of soil microbial ecology, previously …

Tracking heavy water (D2O) incorporation for identifying and sorting active microbial cells

D Berry, E Mader, TK Lee, D Woebken… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Microbial communities are essential to the function of virtually all ecosystems and
eukaryotes, including humans. However, it is still a major challenge to identify microbial cells …

Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology

CW Twining, SJ Taipale, L Ruess… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To understand consumer dietary requirements and resource use across ecosystems,
researchers have employed a variety of methods, including bulk stable isotope and fatty acid …

Detecting metabolic activities in single cells, with emphasis on nanoSIMS

N Musat, R Foster, T Vagner, B Adam… - FEMS microbiology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Investigating the contribution of microbial populations to biochemical processes of global
significance is challenging as there are few approaches that can detect microbial metabolic …

Identification of syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacteria in anaerobic digesters by combined protein-based stable isotope probing and metagenomics

F Mosbæk, H Kjeldal, DG Mulat, M Albertsen… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Inhibition of anaerobic digestion through accumulation of volatile fatty acids occasionally
occurs as the result of unbalanced growth between acidogenic bacteria and methanogens …

Challenges and promise at the interface of metaproteomics and genomics: an overview of recent progress in metaproteogenomic data analysis

H Schiebenhoefer, T Van Den Bossche… - Expert Review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The study of microbial communities based on the combined analysis of
genomic and proteomic data–called metaproteogenomics–has gained increased research …

MicroRNA-21 targets tumor suppressor genes ANP32A and SMARCA4

K Schramedei, N Mörbt, G Pfeifer, J Läuter… - Oncogene, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) is a key regulator of oncogenic processes. It is significantly
elevated in the majority of human tumors and functionally linked to cellular proliferation …

Metagenomic era for biocatalyst identification

L Fernández-Arrojo, ME Guazzaroni… - Current Opinion in …, 2010 - Elsevier
Microbial enzymes have many known applications as biocatalysts. However, only a few of
them are currently employed for biocatalysis even though an annotated collection of more …

Responses of Methanogen mcrA Genes and Their Transcripts to an Alternate Dry/Wet Cycle of Paddy Field Soil

K Ma, R Conrad, Y Lu - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Intermittent drainage can substantially reduce methane emission from rice fields, but the
microbial mechanisms remain poorly understood. In the present study, we determined the …