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… rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, … that even enzymes that evolved separately for billions of years have some common signatures of muli-substrate …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” In the March 4, 2019, issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the … with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an email. “Therefore, …

… expediting BGC and biosynthesis research.  Summary Over the years several secondary metabolites databases have been made … of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https:// ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …

… from around the world. By complete sequencing of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 … Lentinula genus diverged roughly 28 million years ago, when the largest mammal ever, Paraceratherium, … enzymes, oxidoreductases, and cytochrome P450s. This includes the species L. raphanica, which has been …

United States began forming in Alaska. Over the next two years it slowly spread, raising water temperatures by a few … supported by the Danish Research Council (grant DFF-7027-00043B) and CTEK by the Tula Foundation. …

… that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria that act … production. … The work (proposal:  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000691 , and  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60007554 ) conducted by the U.S. Department …

… that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ … strains of  Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published  May 2024 in  Nature Genetics by an international research … National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (DBI-1652164, 1933521), the Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical …

… other enzymes in the CRISPR-Cas system. For the past few years they have partnered with JGI’s Microbiome Data Science … Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems Mol Cell. 2020 Aug 6;79(3):416-424.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.06.022. Wright AV et al. …

… a JGI Community Science Program proposal that started six years earlier, researchers put together what they called the Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project relied upon resources from laboratories around the world, encompassing 54 researchers from 14 organizations across nine countries. …

… as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in … and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon than all other vegetation types … protecting these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US …

… groups of fungi. The 1KFG project has brought together over 400 proposal collaborators and co-authors with affiliations … 700 have been sequenced and annotated, representing 384 fungal families with at least two genomes, and another 190 … has “significantly advanced our understanding of 1 billion years of evolution in Kingdom Fungi — from phylogenetic …

… with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be found throughout the water column, from the warm, … cruises in 2015 and 2016. At Station ALOHA , site of the 30-years-long Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT), they collected …