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Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes … in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is a striking … dataset was particularly important for characterizing fungal genes, because, unlike bacteria, they often carry …
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… where I was a graduate student. Aflatoxin, of course, is a fungal natural product which is a liver toxin when humans … in any living organism are proteins, which are made up of chains of amino acids. “Peptide” is just another word … way of making proteins, with a ribosome. Then, some other enzymes chop the protein into smaller pieces, and other …
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… in the model fungus Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, … of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) that allow them to efficiently break down … This first paper integrating multi-omics data from this JGI fungal ENCODE proposal was recently published in the …
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So really happy to have you here today. There’s a couple of things I want to make sure that we talk about. You … time, we found another molecule. This time it was from a fungal strain collected from sediments in the ocean. No, … 20S proteasome. The proteasome in the cell is a bundle of enzymes that is used to degrade proteins, peptides, that are …
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… other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act … these other plant-fungal relationships, an international team led by graduate student Fantin Mesny in Stéphane Hacquard’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research …
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… together. It’s been kind of a theme, I think, in the last couple of conversations that we’ve had on this podcast, the … up or if they were slowly ticking away metabolically, way down under the ocean in Antarctica. Dan Udwary: Right, … So you’re taking each ion, each metabolite, and you’re breaking it into pieces. And then you’re comparing those …
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The IMG group owns and maintains integral components of JGI’s … Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. Research Team … The Integrated Microbial Genomes group is focused on: Developing state-of-the-art data …
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… some of these enormous genes that encode these very large enzymes. And I was like, OK, wow, these are really cool. And … antiSMASH, and I thought that was really a nice example of teamwork and combining things that another group has … are protecting the plants against pathogens. So usually fungal or oomycete pathogens. In this case they worked on a …
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… polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes … monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota to produce … for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team of researchers has identified the major metabolic roles …
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… term you prefer. In this episode we’re going to finish up by talking about the modern, post-golden age history of … Right. Yeah. DAN: Alright, so a subset of proteins are enzymes. Enzymes are proteins that do chemical reactions. … understanding it because it’s an assembly line. You just go down the string of beads and each bead is doing a chemical …
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… microbes and how they transform their environment. Research Team … For further details, please reach out to the Group Lead …
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The Micro-Scale Applications group explores the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of … link functional information with individual cells. Research Team … The JGI uniquely offers the first quantitative …
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