Follicular thyroid cancer with sternal metastasis - challenges and outcomes.

Sternal metastasis from differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is rare and presents a conundrum for surgeons. We present a lady diagnosed with follicular thyroid carcinoma and sternal metastasis who underwent thyroidectomy, sternectomy and sternoplasty with titanium mesh and acrylic plate. She developed a surgical site infection, of which multiple conservative approaches were attempted.

Direct production of ethanol from neoagarobiose using recombinant yeast that secretes α-neoagarooligosaccharide hydrolase.

An α-neoagarooligosaccharide hydrolase, AgaNash, was purified from Cellvibrio sp. OA-2007, which utilizes agarose as a substrate. The agaNash gene, which encodes AgaNash, was obtained by comparing the N-terminal amino acid sequence of AgaNash with that deduced from the nucleotide sequence of the full-length OA-2007 genome.

Draft Genome Sequence of the Nonmarine Agarolytic Bacterium Cellvibrio sp. OA-2007.

Cellvibrio sp. OA-2007 is a Gram-negative, aerobic, and agarolytic bacterium isolated from activated sludge. We present the draft genome sequence of strain OA-2007, composed of 97 contigs, totaling 4,595,379 bp in size, and containing 4,094 open reading frames, with a G+C content of 47.