Genetic potential for exopolysaccharide synthesis in activated sludge bacteria uncovered by genome-resolved metagenomics

Cellulose-mediated floc formation by the activated sludge bacterium Shinella zoogloeoides ATCC 19623

(2022) Na Gao et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

MiDAS 4: A global catalogue of full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and taxonomy for studies of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

(2022) Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm et al.   Nature Communications

Reevaluation of the Phylogenetic Diversity and Global Distribution of the Genus “ Candidatus Accumulibacter”

(2022) Francesca Petriglieri et al.   mSystems

How reliably do metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) represent natural populations? Insights from comparing MAGs against isolate genomes derived from the same fecal sample

(2021) Alexandra Meziti et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Connecting structure to function with the recovery of over 1000 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes from activated sludge using long-read sequencing

(2021) Caitlin M. Singleton et al.   Nature Communications

“Candidatus Dechloromonas phosphoritropha” and “Ca. D. phosphorivorans”, novel polyphosphate accumulating organisms abundant in wastewater treatment systems

(2021) Francesca Petriglieri et al.   ISME Journal

Environmental applications of microbial extracellular polymeric substance (EPS): A review

(2021) T. Siddharth et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

MiDAS 3: An ecosystem-specific reference database, taxonomy and knowledge platform for activated sludge and anaerobic digesters reveals species-level microbiome composition of activated sludge

(2020) Marta Nierychlo et al.   WATER RESEARCH

A systematic pipeline for classifying bacterial operons reveals the evolutionary landscape of biofilm machineries

(2020) Cedoljub Bundalovic-Torma et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Resource recovery from an aerobic granular sludge process treating domestic wastewater

(2020) Inci Karakas et al.   Journal of Water Process Engineering

Extracellular biopolymers recovered as raw biomaterials from waste granular sludge and potential applications: A critical review

(2020) Cuijie Feng et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Enhanced Methane Recovery from Waste-Activated Sludge by Alginate-Degrading Consortia: The Overlooked Role of Alginate in Extracellular Polymeric Substances

(2020) Fang Zhang et al.   Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Evaluation of strategies for the assembly of diverse bacterial genomes using MinION long-read sequencing

(2019) Sarah Goldstein et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A Diverse Repertoire of Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis Gene Clusters in Lactobacillus Revealed by Comparative Analysis in 106 Sequenced Genomes

(2019) Dipti Deo et al.   Microorganisms

Flame retardant property of flax fabrics coated by extracellular polymeric substances recovered from both activated sludge and aerobic granular sludge

(2019) Nam Kyeun Kim et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Aerobic granular sludge contains Hyaluronic acid-like and sulfated glycosaminoglycans-like polymers

(2019) Simon Felz et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Natural flocculants from fresh and saline wastewater: Comparative properties and flocculation performances

(2018) Victor Ajao et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Both widespread PEP-CTERM proteins and exopolysaccharides are required for floc formation of Zoogloea resiniphila and other activated sludge bacteria

(2018) Na Gao et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Critical review of EPS production, synthesis and composition for sludge flocculation

(2018) Klai Nouha et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

PgaB orthologues contain a glycoside hydrolase domain that cleaves deacetylated poly-β(1,6)-N-acetylglucosamine and can disrupt bacterial biofilms

(2018) Dustin J. Little et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Extracellular polymeric substances of biofilms: Suffering from an identity crisis

(2018) Thomas Seviour et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

(2017) Robert M Bowers et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Identification of substituent groups and related genes involved in salecan biosynthesis in Agrobacterium sp. ZX09

(2016) Linxiang Xu et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Nomadic lifestyle of Lactobacillus plantarum revealed by comparative genomics of 54 strains isolated from different habitats

(2016) Maria Elena Martino et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life

(2016) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative genomics analyses on EPS biosynthesis genes required for floc formation of Zoogloea resiniphila and other activated sludge bacteria

(2016) Weixing An et al.   WATER RESEARCH

ggtree: anrpackage for visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees with their covariates and other associated data

(2016) Guangchuang Yu et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Biotechnological production of hyaluronic acid: a mini review

(2016) Jun Hui Sze et al.   3 Biotech

Biotechnological production of hyaluronic acid: a mini review

(2016) Jun Hui Sze et al.   3 Biotech

A Molecular Description of Cellulose Biosynthesis

(2015) Joshua T. McNamara et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Adaptive mutation related to cellulose producibility in Komagataeibacter medellinensis (Gluconacetobacter xylinus) NBRC 3288

(2015) Minenosuke Matsutani et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

One chromosome, one contig: complete microbial genomes from long-read sequencing and assembly

(2015) Sergey Koren et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Identification of Poly-N-acetylglucosamine as a Major Polysaccharide Component of theBacillus subtilisBiofilm Matrix

(2015) Damien Roux et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Bacterial cellulose biosynthesis: diversity of operons, subunits, products, and functions

(2015) Ute Römling et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial exopolysaccharides: biosynthesis pathways and engineering strategies

(2015) Jochen Schmid et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification

(2014) P. Jones et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A different path: Revealing the function of staphylococcal proteins in biofilm formation

(2014) Kate E. Atkin et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Modification and periplasmic translocation of the biofilm exopolysaccharide poly- -1,6-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine

(2014) D. J. Little et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insights into the Assembly of the Alginate Biosynthesis Machinery in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2013) Zahid U. Rehman et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Synthase-dependent exopolysaccharide secretion in Gram-negative bacteria

(2012) J.C. Whitney et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Aerobic sludge granulation: A tale of two polysaccharides?

(2012) Thomas Seviour et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Sieving wastewater – Cellulose recovery, economic and energy evaluation

(2012) C.J. Ruiken et al.   WATER RESEARCH

The chemical and mechanical differences between alginate-like exopolysaccharides isolated from aerobic flocculent sludge and aerobic granular sludge

(2012) Y.M. Lin et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Genomic insights into an obligate epibiotic bacterial predator: Micavibrio aeruginosavorus ARL-13

(2011) Zhang Wang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Complete Genome Sequence of Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus Strain ATCC 35246

(2011) Z. Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Biosynthesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Extracellular Polysaccharides, Alginate, Pel, and Psl

(2011) Michael J. Franklin et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Structural Determination of a Key Exopolysaccharide in Mixed Culture Aerobic Sludge Granules Using NMR Spectroscopy

(2010) Thomas Seviour et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The biofilm matrix

(2010) Hans-Curt Flemming et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of alginate-like exopolysaccharides isolated from aerobic granular sludge in pilot-plant

(2010) Yuemei Lin et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Characterization of cellulose production inEscherichia coliNissle 1917 and its biological consequences

(2009) Cláudia Monteiro et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The genome of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris B100 and its use for the reconstruction of metabolic pathways involved in xanthan biosynthesis

(2008) Frank-Jörg Vorhölter et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Identification and organization of genes for diutan polysaccharide synthesis from Sphingomonas sp. ATCC 53159

(2008) Russell J. Coleman et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY