Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities

NI van den Berg, D Machado, S Santos… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent studies have brought forward the critical role of emergent properties in sha**
microbial communities and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Emergent properties …

Construction of microbial consortia for microbial degradation of complex compounds

Z Cao, W Yan, M Ding, Y Yuan - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Increasingly complex synthetic environmental pollutants are prompting further research into
bioremediation, which is one of the most economical and safest means of environmental …

Microbial communities and their enzymes facilitate degradation of recalcitrant polymers in anaerobic digestion

EM Blair, KL Dickson, MA O'Malley - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microbial consortia are tools to break down recalcitrant carbon sources.•Several
carbohydrate active enzymes are known to hydrolyze biomass.•Emerging techniques are …

Iron-based multi-carbon composite and Pseudomonas furukawaii ZS1 co-affect nitrogen removal, microbial community dynamics and metabolism pathways in low …

Z Lu, X Cheng, J **e, Z Li, X Li, X Jiang… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aerobic denitrification is the key process in the elimination of nitrogen from aquaculture
wastewater, especially for wastewater with high dissolved oxygen and low carbon/nitrogen …

Lachnospiraceae are emerging industrial biocatalysts and biotherapeutics

T Zaplana, S Miele, AC Tolonen - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The Lachnospiraceae is a family of anaerobic bacteria in the class Clostridia with potential
to advance the bio-economy and intestinal therapeutics. Some species of Lachnospiraceae …

Strategies for tailoring functional microbial synthetic communities

J **g, P Garbeva, JM Raaijmakers… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Natural ecosystems harbor a huge reservoir of taxonomically diverse microbes that are
important for plant growth and health. The vast diversity of soil microorganisms and their …

Microbial engineering strategies to utilize waste feedstock for sustainable bioproduction

N Aggarwal, HL Pham, B Ranjan, M Saini… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The desire to move from a fossil fuel-based 'take–make–dispose'economy to a bio-based
circular economy has generated great interest in microbial metabolic engineering for its …

Microbes and microbial strategies in carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons remediation: a systematic review

S Banerjee, N Gupta, K Pramanik, M Gope… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Degradation, detoxification, or removal of the omnipresent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) from the ecosphere as well as their prevention from entering into food chain has …

Interaction networks are driven by community-responsive phenotypes in a chitin-degrading consortium of soil microbes

R McClure, Y Farris, R Danczak, W Nelson, HS Song… - Msystems, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Soil microorganisms provide key ecological functions that often rely on metabolic
interactions between individual populations of the soil microbiome. To better understand …

Combining kinetic and constraint-based modelling to better understand metabolism dynamics

C Moulin, L Tournier, S Peres - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
To understand the phenotypic capabilities of organisms, it is useful to characterise cellular
metabolism through the analysis of its pathways. Dynamic mathematical modelling of …