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… delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The unusual size is notable because bacteria aren’t usually visible without the assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi … trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant … Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in fixing and metabolizing …

An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria Check out the agenda for the JGI’s 2021 Annual …

… about several different pieces of her work, including bacterial quorum sensing and its effects on regulation of … products and got really interested in thinking about how bacteria actually are able to make some of these really … Yes. JACKIE: And using these hormones as a way that bacteria can talk to each other and then up-regulate or …

… a check-up on me. And I wonder how that intersects with bacterial bioprospecting that is often done, where we’re … we don’t always know necessarily or pay attention to where bacteria come from. And do people even know that the … technologies, NMR, mass spec, whatnot and then we’re comparing that to see what we’re able to pick out through …

… a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and … example, the JGI first used CRAGE to engineer domesticated bacterial strains with novel biosynthetic gene clusters … molecules of value to both human and ecosystem health. But bacteria often fail to express their BGC molecules in the …

So, one of those is Acinetibacter . This is a genus of bacteria that’s really popped up at funding agencies and the … of a new pathogen, so it wasn’t in big pharma screens of bacteria from 20-30 years ago. So it’s in our screen, and … of the opinion that on the geological timescale, that most bacterial natural product systems evolved, you know, a …

… flagella in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows … of millions of years ago.  The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria that act like tiny natural engineers with special … and recycle carbon. They were part of an ancient lineage of bacteria to migrate from oceans and colonize land. …