A cosmid clone cZFYN1413 with CMCase activity was identified from a soil metagenomic library. The sequence analysis of a subclone of cZFYN1413 revealed an endo-β-1,4-glucanase gene ZFYN1413 belonging to glycoside hydrolase family 6 and a transmembrane region in the N-terminal of ZFYN1413. Expression of ZFYN1413 in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) resulted in ZFYN1413-87, which was a truncated protein cleaved in transmembrane region of ZFYN1413. ZFYN1413-87 was expressed and its enzyme properties were studied. ZFYN1413-87 possessed strong endo-β-1,4-glucanase activity, and 52% of the activity could be retained after the protein was treated in buffer of pH 3.0 for 2 h. The study provided a special example of endo-β-1,4-glucanase in GH6 family.
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Front Plant Sci
December 2024
College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University/Engineering Research Center of South Upland Agriculture, Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China.
Introduction: Crop rotation of tobacco with other crops could effectively break the negative impact of continuous tobacco cropping, but the mechanisms of intercropping system effects on tobacco, especially on the rhizosphere, are not clear.
Methods: In this study, we investigated the impact of intercropping system on the diversity and function of tobacco metabolites and microorganisms through metabolomic and metagenomic analyses of the tobacco rhizosphere microenvironment intercropped with maize and soybean.
Results: The results showed that the contents of huperzine b, chlorobenzene, and P-chlorophenylalanine in tobacco rhizosphere soils differed significantly among soybean-tobacco and maize-tobacco intercropping system.
PeerJ
January 2025
Laboratorio de Interacciones Bióticas, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, San Felipe Ixtacuixtla, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
Background: Understanding the diversity and distribution of fungal communities at a regional scale is important since fungi play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. Our study used environmental metagenomics to determine fungal communities in mountainous forest soils in the central highlands of Mexico.
Methods: We used four different bioinformatic workflows to profile fungal assemblages, .
Nat Microbiol
January 2025
Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
As plant-based diets gain traction, interest in their impacts on the gut microbiome is growing. However, little is known about diet-pattern-specific metagenomic profiles across populations. Here we considered 21,561 individuals spanning 5 independent, multinational, human cohorts to map how differences in diet pattern (omnivore, vegetarian and vegan) are reflected in gut microbiomes.
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January 2025
School of Nursing, Haramaya University College of Health and Medical Sciences, Harar, Ethiopia.
Introduction: Although evidence exists on the impact of microbiota on pregnancy outcomes in many high-resource settings, there is a lack of research in many low-resource settings like Ethiopia. This study aims to fill this gap by studying the gut and vaginal microbiota changes throughout pregnancy and assess how these changes relate to pregnancy outcomes among a cohort of pregnant women in eastern Ethiopia.
Methods And Analysis: Vaginal and stool samples will be collected using DNA/RNA Shield Collection kits three times starting at 12-22 weeks, 28-36 weeks and at birth (within 7 days).
Microbes Environ
January 2025
Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Myxobacteria, belonging to the phylum Myxococcota, are ubiquitous in soil, marine, and other environments. A recent metagenomic sequencing ana-lysis showed that Myxococcota are predominant in activated sludge systems; however, their metabolic traits remain unclear. In the present study, we exami-ned the potential biological functions of 46 metagenomic bins of Myxococcota reconstructed from activated sludge samples from four municipal sewage treatment plants.
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