CaMKII is involved in long-term potentiation, the enhanced signaling between neurons that underlies memory formation (reviewed in Lisman et al., 2002). Researchers know that upon neural stimulation, CaMKII arrives at the post-synapse within seconds (Shen and Meyer, 1999) and proteasomal proteins follow…
Researchers in Japan engineered an ancestral nucleoside diphosphate kinase variant with a restricted amino acid repertoire and found that it retained its fold and converted two ADP molecules into ATP and AMP.
A new review details how microbial exopolysaccharides boost microbial fuel cell power output, bind heavy metals, and enable green nanomaterials, while commercialization hurdles remain. Article Title: Versatile applications of EPS secreting Microbes: advances in microbial fuel cells and beyond News…
Study explored how restricting the amino acid diversity in ancestral enzymes can uncover alternative catalytic functions, including ATP formation from ADP Overall, the study shows that restricting amino acid diversity can reveal catalytic capabilities beyond a protein’s conventional function. By…
~Useful microbial cultivation that tunes the 'collective behavior' of microorganisms and restores the earth and atmosphere with the power of rice~ For many years, modern agriculture has pursued an approach of 'how to sterilize and eliminate pathogenic bacteria and pests.
Two papers published today in the journal Nature describe a significant advance in understanding the complex functions of the metabolic network. The research is from the lab of Marian Walhout, PhD, the Maroun Semaan Chair in Biomedical Research and chair…
A new review traces biomachining from its 1996 origins to current laboratory applications, finding that microbe-assisted metal removal works but faces major barriers to industrial scale-up. Subject of Research: A review of biomachining, a manufacturing method that uses microbial metabolism to…
Nitrogen ion beam mutagenesis produced stable Starmerella bombicola mutants, one of which yielded 224.31 g/L of total sophorolipids in a 100-liter bioreactor. Subject of Research: Nitrogen ion beam mutagenesis of Starmerella bombicola to improve sophorolipid production and composition News Source:…
Scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and collaborators elsewhere have deciphered the genome of a metal ion-reducing bacterium, Shewanella oneidensis, that has great potential as a bioremediation agent to remove toxic metals from the environment. The genome sequence…
Newswise — TROY, N.Y. —When the Shewanella oneidensis bacterium “breathes” in certain metal and sulfur compounds anaerobically, the way an aerobic organism would process oxygen, it produces materials that could be used to enhance electronics, electrochemical energy storage, and drug-delivery devices.
Engineering life: designing cells, genomes and DNA to do new things, from programmed microbes to synthetic cells and DNA that stores data.
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