A novel salt-tolerant chitobiosidase discovered by genetic screening of a metagenomic library derived from chitin-amended agricultural soil

Flavobacterium johnsoniae PorV Is Required for Secretion of a Subset of Proteins Targeted to the Type IX Secretion System

(2014) Sampada S. Kharade et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Functional expression and characterization of a chitinase from the marine archaeon Halobacterium salinarum CECT 395 in Escherichia coli

(2013) Belén García-Fraga et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Bacterial chitinase with phytopathogen control capacity from suppressive soil revealed by functional metagenomics

(2013) Karin Hjort et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Structure and function of enzymes acting on chitin and chitosan

(2013) Ingunn A. Hoell et al.   Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews

From bacteria to human: A journey into the world of chitinases

(2013) Sina Adrangi et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Expression and efficient secretion of a functional chitinase from Chromobacterium violaceum in Escherichia coli

(2013) Marina Duarte Lobo et al.   BMC BIOTECHNOLOGY

The chitinolytic machinery ofSerratia marcescens- a model system for enzymatic degradation of recalcitrant polysaccharides

(2013) Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad et al.   FEBS Journal

Flavobacterium johnsoniae Chitinase ChiA Is Required for Chitin Utilization and Is Secreted by the Type IX Secretion System

(2013) S. S. Kharade et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Protein Hypersaline Adaptation: Insight from Amino Acids with Machine Learning Algorithms

(2013) Guangya Zhang et al.   PROTEIN JOURNAL

Bacterial chitin degradation—mechanisms and ecophysiological strategies

(2013) Sara Beier et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Articles of Significant Interest Selected from This Issue by the Editors

(2012)   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Chitinolytic Communities Respond to Chitin and pH Alteration in Soil

(2012) Anna M. Kielak et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mining of unexplored habitats for novel chitinases—chiA as a helper gene proxy in metagenomics

(2012) Mariana Silvia Cretoiu et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Novel enzymes for the degradation of cellulose

(2012) Svein Horn et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Nitrification expanded: discovery, physiology and genomics of a nitrite-oxidizing bacterium from the phylum Chloroflexi

(2012) Dimitry Y Sorokin et al.   ISME Journal

Hallmarks of Processivity in Glycoside Hydrolases from Crystallographic and Computational Studies of theSerratia marcescensChitinases

(2012) Christina M. Payne et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The great screen anomaly—a new frontier in product discovery through functional metagenomics

(2011) David Matthias Ekkers et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Identification of novel lipolytic genes and gene families by screening of metagenomic libraries derived from soil samples of the German Biodiversity Exploratories

(2011) Heiko Nacke et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Potential for industrial products from the halophilic Archaea

(2011) Carol D. Litchfield   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genome Sequence of Kitasatospora setae NBRC 14216T: An Evolutionary Snapshot of the Family Streptomycetaceae

(2010) N. Ichikawa et al.   DNA RESEARCH

CAZymes Analysis Toolkit (CAT): Web service for searching and analyzing carbohydrate-active enzymes in a newly sequenced organism using CAZy database

(2010) Byung H Park et al.   GLYCOBIOLOGY

I-TASSER: a unified platform for automated protein structure and function prediction

(2010) Ambrish Roy et al.   Nature Protocols

Sequence and Structural Analysis of the Chitinase Insertion Domain Reveals Two Conserved Motifs Involved in Chitin-Binding

(2010) Hai Li et al.   PLoS One

progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

(2010) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PLoS One

Plants, Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Bacteria: A Network of Interactions

(2009) Paola Bonfante et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Achievements and new knowledge unraveled by metagenomic approaches

(2009) Carola Simon et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Nutrient regime regulates complex transcriptional start site usage within a Pseudoalteromonas chitinase gene cluster

(2009) Marina W Delpin et al.   ISME Journal

Automated design of synthetic ribosome binding sites to control protein expression

(2009) Howard M Salis et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Insights into the role of the (α+β) insertion in the TIM-barrel catalytic domain, regarding the stability and the enzymatic activity of Chitinase A from Serratia marcescens

(2008) Athanassios C. Zees et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

The metagenomics RAST server – a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes

(2008) F Meyer et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Evolution and the universality of the mechanism of initiation of protein synthesis

(2008) Tokumasa Nakamoto   GENE

A procedure for the metagenomics exploration of disease-suppressive soils

(2008) J.D. van Elsas et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

The Carbohydrate-Active EnZymes database (CAZy): an expert resource for Glycogenomics

(2008) B. L. Cantarel et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Determination of a relationship between chitinase activity and microbial diversity in chitin amended compost

(2007) Pernille H.B. Poulsen et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY