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View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cyanoHAB forming cyanobacteria and frequently produce high intracellular amounts of microcystins (MCs) or anabaenopeptins (APs). In this study, chemically modified MCs and APs have been localized on a subcellular level in and applying copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuACC). For this purpose, three different non-natural amino acids carrying alkyne or azide moieties were fed to individual strains No371/1 and CYA126/8 as well as to strain Hofbauer showing promiscuous incorporation of various amino acid substrates during non-ribosomal peptide synthesis (NRPS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Asexuality has major theoretical advantages over sexual reproduction, yet newly formed asexual lineages rarely endure. The success, or failure, of such lineages is affected by their mechanism of origin, because it determines their initial genetic makeup and variability. Most previously described mechanisms imply that asexual lineages are randomly frozen subsamples of a sexual population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany dissolved substances attach easily to sediment particles. In the presence of suspended sediments bioavailability of dissolved substances is therefore, usually reduced and clays are even applied to "wash" natural waters upon pollution. In organisms which feed on food organisms in the size range of these suspended sediment particles, however, bioavailability of such substances may even increase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUltramicrobacteria (cell volume < 0.1 microm(3)) are the numerically dominant organisms in the plankton of marine and freshwater habitats. Flagellates and other protists are assumed to be the most important predators of these ultramicrobacteria as well as of larger planktonic bacteria.
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