Contamination of soil and natural water bodies driven by increased organic pollutants
remains a universal concern. Naturally, organic pollutants contain carcinogenic and toxic …

Highlights•The evolution and diversity of metabolic strategies is poorly understood.•Systems
Biology models can predict metabolic strategies from genomic data.•Metabolic strategies …

Jiang-flavor (JF) daqu is a liquor starter used for production of JF baijiu, a well-known
distilled liquor in China. Although a high temperature stage (70° C) is necessary for …

Gluconeogenic carbon metabolism is not well understood, especially within the context of
flux partitioning between energy generation and biomass production, despite the importance …

Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) is a regulatory phenomenon occurring in both lower
organisms like bacteria and higher organisms like yeast, which allows them to preferentially …

Bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas consume preferred carbon substrates in nearly reverse
order to that of enterobacteria, and this process is controlled by RNA-binding translational …

Current study reports isolation of Cupriavidus strain a3 which can utilize 2-chloro-4-
nitrophenol (C4NP) as sole source of carbon and nitrogen, leading to its detoxification …

Bacteria make a huge contribution to the purification of the environment from toxic stable
pollutants of anthropogenic and natural origin due to the diversity of their enzyme systems …

Microbial degradation is a natural means to combat ubiquitous, harmful and non-covalently
bound plasticizers, phthalic acid esters (PAEs), due to their slower photo-degradation and …

Bacteria that are chronically exposed to high levels of pollutants demonstrate genomic and
corresponding metabolic diversity that complement their strategies for adaptation to …