Gas fermentation—a flexible platform for commercial scale production of low-carbon-fuels and chemicals from waste and renewable feedstocks

FM Liew, ME Martin, RC Tappel, BD Heijstra… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
There is an immediate need to drastically reduce the emissions associated with global fossil
fuel consumption in order to limit climate change. However, carbon-based materials …

Analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates by matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry: An update for 2009–2010

DJ Harvey - Mass spectrometry reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review is the sixth update of the original article published in 1999 on the application of
MALDI mass spectrometry to the analysis of carbohydrates and glycoconjugates and brings …

Global transcriptional control by glucose and carbon regulator CcpA in Clostridium difficile

A Antunes, E Camiade, M Monot… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The catabolite control protein CcpA is a pleiotropic regulator that mediates the global
transcriptional response to rapidly catabolizable carbohydrates, like glucose in Gram …

Gas fermentation for commercial biofuels production

FM Liew, M Köpke, SD Simpson - Liquid, Gaseous and Solid …, 2013 - books.google.com
With diminishing global reserves of crude oil and increasing demand, especially from
developing countries, the pressure on oil supply will grow. Although the 2007-2010 fi …

The WalRK two-component system is essential for proper cell envelope biogenesis in Clostridioides difficile

U Müh, CD Ellermeier, DS Weiss - Journal of bacteriology, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The WalR-WalK two-component regulatory system (TCS) is found in all
Firmicutes, in which it regulates the expression of multiple genes required for remodeling the …

Structure of pneumococcal peptidoglycan hydrolase LytB reveals insights into the bacterial cell wall remodeling and pathogenesis

XH Bai, HJ Chen, YL Jiang, Z Wen, Y Huang… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Streptococcus pneumoniae causes a series of devastating infections in humans. Previous
studies have shown that the endo-β-N-acetylglucosaminidase LytB is critical for …

Mechanistic insights into the activities of major families of enzymes in bacterial peptidoglycan assembly and breakdown

JMC Kwan, Y Qiao - ChemBioChem, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Serving as an exoskeletal scaffold, peptidoglycan is a polymeric macromolecule that is
essential and conserved across all bacteria, yet is absent in mammalian cells; this has made …

Structural and biochemical characterization of the β-N-acetylglucosaminidase from Thermotoga maritima: Toward rationalization of mechanistic knowledge in the …

A Lipski, M Hervé, V Lombard, D Nurizzo… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Members of the GH73 glycosidase family cleave the β-1, 4-glycosidic bond between the N-
acetylglucosaminyl (GlcNAc) and N-acetylmuramyl (MurNAc) moieties in bacterial …

ClosTron-Mediated Engineering of Clostridium

SA Kuehne, JT Heap, CM Cooksley… - … : Methods and Protocols, 2011 - Springer
The genus Clostridium is a diverse assemblage of Gram positive, anaerobic, endospore-
forming bacteria. Whilst certain species have achieved notoriety as important animal and …

Cyclic-di-GMP regulates autoaggregation through the putative peptidoglycan hydrolase, EagA, and regulates transcription of the znuABC zinc uptake gene cluster in …

RR Kharadi, GW Sundin - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Erwinia amylovora is the causal agent of fire blight, an economically impactful disease that
affects apple and pear production worldwide. E. amylovora pathogenesis is comprised of …