Recent Articles

TITLE: An integrated systems-biology approach reveals differences in formate metabolism in the genus Methanothermobacter —ABSTRACT: Methanogenesis allows methanogenic archaea to generate cellular energy for their growth while producing methane. Thermophilic hydrogenotrophic species of the genus Methanothermobacter have been recognized as

TITLE: Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants —ABSTRACT: While genome sequencing has expanded our knowledge of symbiosis, role assignment within multi-species microbiomes remains challenging due to genomic redundancy and

TITLE: Complex regulation in a Comamonas platform for diverse aromatic carbon metabolism –ABSTRACT: Critical to a sustainable energy future are microbial platforms that can process aromatic carbons from the largely untapped reservoir of lignin and plastic feedstocks. Comamonas species present

TITLE: Selectivity in Enzymatic Phosphorus Recycling from Biopolymers: Isotope Effect, Reactivity Kinetics, and Molecular Docking with Fungal and Plant Phosphatases –ABSTRACT Among ubiquitous phosphorus (P) reserves in environmental matrices are ribonucleic acid (RNA) and polyphosphate (polyP), which are, respectively, organic

TITLE: Metabolomics analysis of unresolved molecular variability in stoichiometry dynamics of a stream dissolved organic matter –ABSTRACT: Broad molecular classification based on stoichiometric ratio relationships has been used extensively to characterize the chemical diversity of aquatic dissolved organic matter (DOM).

TITLE: Dynamic utilization of low-molecular-weight organic substrates across a microbial growth rate gradient –Aim: Low-molecular-weight organic substances (LMWOSs) are at the nexus between microorganisms, plant roots, detritus, and the soil mineral matrix. Nominal oxidation state of carbon (NOSC) has been

TITLE: Evolution of Oxygen Isotopologues in Phosphate and Pyrophosphate during Enzyme-Catalyzed Isotopic Exchange Reactions –ABSTRACT: Inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) is an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the phosphoanhydride bond in pyrophosphate (PPi) to release inorganic phosphate (Pi) and simultaneously exchange

TITLE: Lithium isotope behaviour during basalt weathering experiments amended with organic acids –ABSTRACT: Lithium (Li) isotopes are a tracer of silicate weathering processes, but how they react to different components of organic and plant-assisted weathering is poorly known. To examine

TITLE: Strategies of organic phosphorus recycling by soil bacteria: Acquisition, metabolism, and regulation –ABSTRACT: Critical to meeting cellular phosphorus (P) demand, soil bacteria deploy a number of strategies to overcome limitation in inorganic P (Pi) in soils. As a significant

TITLE: Analogous Metabolic Decoupling in Pseudomonas putida and Comamonas testosteroni Implies Energetic Bypass to Facilitate Gluconeogenic Growth –ABSTRACT: Gluconeogenic carbon metabolism is not well understood, especially within the context of flux partitioning between energy generation and biomass production, despite the