##MarineBacteria
Exciting new work from Andi Sichert and several other PriME members, now published in Nature! 🌊🦠

The study reveals how specialized #marinebacteria work together to break down complex algal polysaccharides, with important implications for ocean #carboncycling 👇

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean - Nature
Efficient degradation of fucoidans depends on complementary bacterial guilds that cooperatively break backbone and side-chain sugars, revealing a conserved, globally relevant mechanism that shapes mar...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2026 at 8:28 AM
❓How do #marinebacteria navigate and compete for #phytoplankton -derived organic matter hotspots — and what happens when their microbial neighbors 🦠tag along❓

Check out this exciting PriME collaborative work, just published in @ISMEJournal! 😃👏👇
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Chemotaxis, growth, and inter-species interactions shape early bacterial community assembly
Abstract. From the perspective of a marine copiotrophic bacterium, the surface ocean is a mosaic of exploitable hotspots of organic matter released from li
academic.oup.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
❓What survival strategies enable #marinebacteria to chase sinking particles for days under starvation — and how might this shape the ocean’s long-term carbon storage ❓

A joint PriME effort just hot off the press 🔥🥳👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Risk–reward trade-off during carbon starvation generates dichotomy in motility endurance among marine bacteria - Nature Microbiology
Marine bacteria opt for divergent foraging strategies when faced with carbon starvation—either cease motility entirely, or convert biomass to energy to retain motility.
www.nature.com
May 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Structural variation in positive subsites in loop regions demonstrating high structural variability suggests potential differences in substrate specificity in family 168 glycoside hydrolases #GlycosideHydrolases #Fucoidanases #MarineBacteria doi.org/10.1107/S205...
July 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Structural basis and evolutionary pathways of glycerol-1-phosphate transport in marine bacteria.
Blindauer, Claudia A et al.
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#marinebacteria #glycerol1phosphate #transportproteins
December 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM