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Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology
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- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Recent phylogenomic analyses revealed that the genus Methanobrevibacter , which consists almost exclusively of representatives from the intestinal tract of animals, is severely underclassified. Based on the large relative evolutionary divergence between individual subclades, memb...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Isocyanides as a Chemical Tool for Identifying [Fe]‐Hydrogenase‐Dependent Methanogenesis
In the hydrogenotrophic methanogens cultivated under nickel‐sufficient standard medium (~5 µM Ni 2+ ), two cytosolic [NiFe]‐hydrogenases, F 420 ‐reducing hydrogenase (Frh) and heterodisulfide reductase (Hdr)‐associating hydrogenase (Mvh), mainly provide electrons to the methanoge...
- BiologyOpen access
Functional mapping and engineering of the Sec translocon unlocked by a cell-free system
Abstract Almost all proteins are inserted or translocated across membranes by the universally conserved Sec translocon. Despite its central role, experimental access to Sec function has remained limited. Here, we present a cell-free protein synthesis platform that inserts SecYEG...