Cryptic Prophage (phage 🧬🪤 in 🦠)
@crypticprophage.bsky.social
TA systems stop phages (discovered '96), phages create persisters (discovered '23), E. c. CRISPR regulates cryptic prophages (discovered '21), indole = inter-kingdom signal, AI2 increases biofilm & TqsA exports (Thomas K. Wood, endowed prof, H118, 360 pub) .. more
TA systems stop phages (discovered '96), phages create persisters (discovered '23), E. c. CRISPR regulates cryptic prophages (discovered '21), indole = inter-kingdom signal, AI2 increases biofilm & TqsA exports (Thomas K. Wood, endowed prof, H118, 360 pub)
Biology
57%
Environmental science
18%
Pinned
Engineering Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase for Enhanced Methane and Carbon Dioxide Capture through Biofilm Growth
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, nearly half of which is consumed anaerobically by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) through methyl-coenzyme M reductase (Mcr). However, ANME cannot be grown a...
biorxiv.org
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734734v1
(1/2) It took 12 yrs, but we performed the first directed evolution of methyl-coenzyme M reductase (ANME-1 Mcr that captures CH4) by selecting for growth on CH4 in a methanogen forced to reverse methanogenesis.
(1/2) It took 12 yrs, but we performed the first directed evolution of methyl-coenzyme M reductase (ANME-1 Mcr that captures CH4) by selecting for growth on CH4 in a methanogen forced to reverse methanogenesis.