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

Bio-mining the microbial treasures of the ocean: New natural products

(2011) Johannes F. Imhoff et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

The art and design of functional metagenomic screens

(2011) Marcus Taupp et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Isolation and characterization of novel lipases from a metagenomic library of the microbial community in the pitcher fluid of the carnivorous plant Nepenthes hybrida

(2011) Tomohiro Morohoshi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

The use of nucleic acid based stable isotope probing to identify the microorganisms responsible for anaerobic benzene and toluene biodegradation

(2011) Alison M. Cupples   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Metagenomic comparison of direct and indirect soil DNA extraction approaches

(2011) Tom O. Delmont et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGICAL METHODS

Highly soluble expression and molecular characterization of an organic solvent-stable and thermotolerant lipase originating from the metagenome

(2011) Xinjiong Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS B-ENZYMATIC

Screening and characterization of a cellulase with endocellulase and exocellulase activity from yak rumen metagenome

(2011) Lei Bao et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS B-ENZYMATIC

Expanding Small-Molecule Functional Metagenomics through Parallel Screening of Broad-Host-Range Cosmid Environmental DNA Libraries in Diverse Proteobacteria

(2010) J. W. Craig et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Identification of Diverse Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants Carried on Bacterial, Plasmid, or Viral Metagenomes from an Activated Sludge Microbial Assemblage

(2010) L. C. Parsley et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biochemical characterization of two novel β-glucosidase genes by metagenome expression cloning

(2010) Chengjian Jiang et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

A novel cold-active xylanase gene from the environmental DNA of goat rumen contents: Direct cloning, expression and enzyme characterization

(2010) Guozeng Wang et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Pharmaceuticals from marine natural products: surge or ebb?

(2010) Russell T Hill et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Flow cytometry for bacteria: enabling metabolic engineering, synthetic biology and the elucidation of complex phenotypes

(2010) Bryan P Tracy et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Metagenomic era for biocatalyst identification

(2010) Lucía Fernández-Arrojo et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Drug discovery from uncultivable microorganisms

(2010) Brajesh K. Singh et al.   DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY

Gram negative shuttle BAC vector for heterologous expression of metagenomic libraries

(2010) Kavita S. Kakirde et al.   GENE

Characterization of the microbial community from the marine sediment of the Venice lagoon capable of reductive dechlorination of coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

(2010) Giulio Zanaroli et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Screening of a soil metatranscriptomic library by functional complementation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants

(2010) Harald Kellner et al.   MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Screening for hydrocarbon biodegraders in a metagenomic clone library derived from Brazilian petroleum reservoirs

(2010) Suzan Pantaroto de Vasconcellos et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Exploring research frontiers in microbiology: the challenge of metagenomics in soil microbiology

(2010) Stefano Mocali et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Size does matter: Application-driven approaches for soil metagenomics

(2010) Kavita S. Kakirde et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Optimizing the indirect extraction of prokaryotic DNA from soils

(2010) Kurt. E. Williamson et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

When metagenomics meets stable-isotope probing: progress and perspectives

(2010) Yin Chen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Isolation and Characterization of Metalloproteases with a Novel Domain Structure by Construction and Screening of Metagenomic Libraries

(2009) T. Waschkowitz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Lysine Racemase from a Soil Metagenomic Library

(2009) I-C. Chen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Rapid Identification of Genes Encoding DNA Polymerases by Function-Based Screening of Metagenomic Libraries Derived from Glacial Ice

(2009) C. Simon et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Achievements and new knowledge unraveled by metagenomic approaches

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

Functional metagenomics for enzyme discovery: challenges to efficient screening

(2009) Taku Uchiyama et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Metagenomics reveals diversity and abundance ofmeta-cleavage pathways in microbial communities from soil highly contaminated with jet fuel under air-sparging bioremediation

(2009) Maria V. Brennerova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A plasmid RK2-based broad-host-range cloning vector useful for transfer of metagenomic libraries to a variety of bacterial species

(2009) Trine Aakvik et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

A perspective: Metatranscriptomics as a tool for the discovery of novel biocatalysts

(2009) Falk Warnecke et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Synthesis of Methyl Halides from Biomass Using Engineered Microbes

(2009) Travis S. Bayer et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

MetaBioME: a database to explore commercially useful enzymes in metagenomic datasets

(2009) Vineet K. Sharma et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Nonlinear electrophoretic response yields a unique parameter for separation of biomolecules

(2009) J. Pel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coding-Sequence Determinants of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli

(2009) G. Kudla et al.   SCIENCE

A two-host fosmid system for functional screening of (meta)genomic libraries from extreme thermophiles

(2009) Angel Angelov et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Biased codon usage in signal peptides: a role in protein export

(2009) Yaramah M. Zalucki et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomics in animal gastrointestinal ecosystem: Potential biotechnological prospects

(2008) Birbal Singh et al.   ANAEROBE

Metagenome-Derived Clones Encoding Two Novel Lactonase Family Proteins Involved in Biofilm Inhibition in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2008) C. Schipper et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Recent trends in industrial microbiology

(2008) Ana Beloqui et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Marine methylotrophs revealed by stable-isotope probing, multiple displacement amplification and metagenomics

(2008) Josh D. Neufeld et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Something from (almost) nothing: the impact of multiple displacement amplification on microbial ecology

(2008) Erik K Binga et al.   ISME Journal

A procedure for the metagenomics exploration of disease-suppressive soils

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

Metagenomics for Mining New Genetic Resources of Microbial Communities

(2008) Manuel Ferrer et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Characterization and its Potential Application of Two Esterases Derived from the Arctic Sediment Metagenome

(2008) Jeong Ho Jeon et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

An analysis of initiation codon utilization in the Domain Bacteria - concerns about the quality of bacterial genome annotation

(2008) A. Villegas et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Symbiotic gut microbes modulate human metabolic phenotypes

(2008) M. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Immobilized chaperones: A productive alternative to refolding of bacterial inclusion body proteins

(2008) Kamna Jhamb et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

Drugs from hidden bugs: their discovery via untapped resources

(2008) Fabrice Lefevre et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

DNA-based stable isotope probing: a link between community structure and function

(2008) Ondrej Uhlík et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The metagenomics of disease-suppressive soils – experiences from the METACONTROL project

(2008) Jan Dirk van Elsas et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Amino acid and codon usage profiles: Adaptive changes in the frequency of amino acids and codons

(2007) Hani Goodarzi et al.   GENE

Novel thermophilic and thermostable lipolytic enzymes from a Thailand hot spring metagenomic library

(2007) Pacawadee Tirawongsaroj et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY