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Read more at: Howe Group show cyanobacteria can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide

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Howe Group show cyanobacteria can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide

In a paper published in Current Biology , Alberto Scarampi and his colleagues in Chris Howe's group show that cyanobacteria (photosynthetic bacteria) can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide thanks to a pool of potentially beneficial mutations already existing at low frequencies in the bacterial...

Read more at: Welch Group Nature Communications paper finds a new way to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections

Fig. 5a: Overall structure of the FadE1 acyl-CoA dehydrogenase from PA and differences in the substrate-binding cavities of FadE1 and FadE2.

Welch Group Nature Communications paper finds a new way to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infections

Dr Meng Wang and members of the Welch Group have been working with colleagues in the Department of Chemistry, the University of Exeter and the University of Eastern Finland to study the biochemistry of Pseudomonas aeruginosa . This bacteria causes hard-to-treat lung infections in people with Cystic...

Read more at: Paper paves the way to convert properties of lignocellulosic biomass for better use

Fig. 6: Summary of substrate specificity of MAGT and effect of galactosylation on AcGGM-cellulose interaction

Paper paves the way to convert properties of lignocellulosic biomass for better use

Yoshihisa Yoshimi has published a paper in Nature Communications , ' Glucomannan engineering highlights roles of galactosyl modification in fine-tuning cellulose-glucomannan interaction in Arabidopsis cell walls ' with colleagues from the Dupree Lab and the Universities of Warwick, Jagiellonian and Saitama....

Read more at: New paper shows translocons, and targeting peptides, for four membranes were directly inherited from haptophytes with a new plastid in dinoflagellates

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New paper shows translocons, and targeting peptides, for four membranes were directly inherited from haptophytes with a new plastid in dinoflagellates

Ross Waller’s lab has published a paper, ‘ Plastid translocon recycling in dinoflagellates demonstrates the portability of complex plastids between hosts ’ in Current Biology in collaboration with colleagues in Ben Luisi’s lab and at the MRC Cambridge and the Cell and Plant Physiology Laboratory, Université Grenoble...

Read more at: Designing a Synthetic Biology Workbench: NED and the Magnificent Seven

Fig. 1: Basic properties of the S. cerevisiae MMNs under 6 different growth conditions. From: Minimisation of metabolic networks defines a new functional class of genes.

Designing a Synthetic Biology Workbench: NED and the Magnificent Seven

A paper in this week’s Nature Communications , by Prof Steve Oliver and former members of his lab, reports a major step toward improving the efficiency of industrial microbes. Generating a minimal metabolic network ( MMN ) should improve the production efficiency of engineered microbes by reducing...