• Graphene facilitates biomethane production from protein derived glycine in anaerobic digestion 

  Lin, Richen; Deng, Chen; Cheng, Jun; Xia, Ao; Lens, Piet N. L.; Jackson, Stephen A.; Dobson, Alan D. W.; Murphy, Jerry D. (Elsevier B.V., 2018-11-22)

  Interspecies electron transfer is a fundamental factor determining the efficiency of anaerobic digestion (AD), which involves syntrophy between fermentative bacteria and methanogens. Direct interspecies electron transfer ...
• Plantaricyclin A, a novel circular bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus plantarum NI326: purification, characterization, and heterologous production 

  Borrero, Juan; Kelly, Eoin; O'Connor, Paula M.; Kelleher, Philip; Scully, Colm; Cotter, Paul D.; Mahony, Jennifer; van Sinderen, Douwe (American Society for Microbiology, 2017-12-15)

  Bacteriocins from lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are of increasing interest in recent years due to their potential as natural preservatives against food and beverage spoilage microorganisms. In a screening study for LAB, we ...
• The potency of the broad spectrum bacteriocin, bactofencin A, against staphylococci is highly dependent on primary structure, N-terminal charge and disulphide formation 

  O'Connor, Paula M.; O'Shea, Eileen F.; Cotter, Paul D.; Hill, Colin; Ross, R. Paul (Springer Nature, 2018)

  Bactofencin A is a novel class IId bacteriocin, produced by the intestinal isolate Lactobacillus salivarius DPC6502, which has potent activity against medically significant pathogens including Staphylococcus aureus. This ...
• Genome editing in Kluyveromyces and Ogataea yeasts using a broad-host-range Cas9/gRNA co-expression plasmid 

  Juergens, Hannes; Varela, Javier A.; Gorter de Vries, Arthur R.; Perli, Thomas; Gast, Veronica J. M.; Gyurchev, Nikola Y.; Rajkumar, Arun S.; Mans, Robert; Pronk, Jack T.; Morrissey, John P.; Daran, Jean-Marc G. (Oxford University Press, 2018)

  While CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing has transformed yeast research, current plasmids and cassettes for Cas9 and guide-RNA expression are species specific. CRISPR tools that function in multiple yeast species could ...
• The use of a mini-bioreactor fermentation system as a reproducible, high-throughput ex-vivo batch model of the distal colon 

  O'Donnell, Michelle M.; Rea, Mary C.; Shanahan, Fergus; Ross, R. Paul (Frontiers Media, 2018)

  Ex vivo colon fermentation systems are highly versatile as models for analyzing gastrointestinal tract microbiota composition and functionality. Ex vivo colon models range in size and functionality from bench-top micro ...

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