• A novel cold active esterase from a deep sea sponge Stelletta normani metagenomic library 

  Borchert, Erik; Selvin, Joseph; Kiran, Seghal G.; Jackson, Stephen A.; O'Gara, Fergal; Dobson, Alan D. W. (Frontiers Media, 2017)

  Esterases catalyze the hydrolysis of ester bonds in fatty acid esters with short-chain acyl groups. Due to the widespread applications of lipolytic enzymes in various industrial applications, there continues to be an ...
• Global survey and genome exploration of bacteriophages infecting the lactic acid bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus 

  McDonnell, Brian; Mahony, Jennifer; Hanemaaijer, Laurens; Neve, Horst; Noben, Jean-Paul; Lugli, Gabriele A.; Ventura, Marco; Kouwen, Thijs R.; van Sinderen, Douwe (Frontiers Media, 2017)

  Despite the persistent and costly problem caused by (bacterio)phage predation of Streptococcus thermophilus in dairy plants, DNA sequence information relating to these phages remains limited. Genome sequencing is necessary ...
• Another brick in the wall: a rhamnan polysaccharide trapped inside peptidoglycan of Lactococcus lactis 

  Sadovskaya, Irina; Vinogradov, Evgeny; Courtin, Pascal; Armalyte, Julija; Meyrand, Mickael; Giaouris, Efstathios; Palussière, Simon; Furlan, Sylviane; Péchoux, Christine; Ainsworth, Stuart; Mahony, Jennifer; van Sinderen, Douwe; Kulakauskas, Saulius; Guérardel, Yann; Chapot-Chartier, Marie-Pierre (American Society for Microbiology, 2017)

  Polysaccharides are ubiquitous components of the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall. In Lactococcus lactis, a polysaccharide pellicle (PSP) forms a layer at the cell surface. The PSP structure varies among lactococcal ...
• Current status and future prospects of marine natural products (MNPs) as antimicrobials 

  Choudhary, Alka; Naughton, Lynn; Montánchez, Itxaso; Dobson, Alan D. W.; Rai, Dilip (MDPI, 2017)

  The marine environment is a rich source of chemically diverse, biologically active natural products, and serves as an invaluable resource in the ongoing search for novel antimicrobial compounds. Recent advances in extraction ...
• Core fecal microbiota of domesticated herbivorous ruminant, hindgut fermenters, and monogastric animals 

  O’Donnell, Michelle M.; Harris, Hugh M. B.; Ross, R. Paul; O'Toole, Paul W. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017)

  In this pilot study, we determined the core fecal microbiota composition and overall microbiota diversity of domesticated herbivorous animals of three digestion types: hindgut fermenters, ruminants, and monogastrics. The ...

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