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… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures …

… online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … at protein function within them. The work was led by a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of the ocean simply signals we’re near the beach. For …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to … the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements, better understanding the predator-prey dynamics in …