Search Results - "Kempher, Megan L"

Experimental warming accelerates positive soil priming in a temperate grassland ecosystem by Tao, Xuanyu, Yang, Zhifeng, Feng, Jiajie, Jian, Siyang, Yang, Yunfeng, Bates, Colin T., Wang, Gangsheng, Guo, Xue, Ning, Daliang, Kempher, Megan L., Liu, Xiao Jun A., Ouyang, Yang, Han, Shun, Wu, Linwei, Zeng, Yufei, Kuang, Jialiang, Zhang, Ya, Zhou, Xishu, Shi, Zheng, Qin, Wei, Wang, Jianjun, Firestone, Mary K., Tiedje, James M., Zhou, Jizhong

“…Unravelling biosphere feedback mechanisms is crucial for predicting the impacts of global warming. Soil priming, an effect of fresh plant-derived carbon (C) on…”
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In vivo Functional Characterization of Hydrophilic X2 Modules in the Cellulosomal Scaffolding Protein by Tao, Xuanyu, Liu, Jiantao, Kempher, Megan L, Xu, Tao, Zhou, Jizhong

“…As part of free cellulases or scaffolding proteins in cellulosomes, the hydrophilic non-catalytic X2 module is widely distributed in cellulolytic or other…”
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Anaerobic 3-methylhopanoid production by an acidophilic photosynthetic purple bacterium by Mayer, Marisa H., Parenteau, Mary N., Kempher, Megan L., Madigan, Michael T., Jahnke, Linda L., Welander, Paula V.

“…Bacterial lipids are well-preserved in ancient rocks and certain ones have been used as indicators of specific bacterial metabolisms or environmental…”
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Blastochloris tepida, sp. nov., a thermophilic species of the bacteriochlorophyll b-containing genus Blastochloris by Madigan, Michael T., Resnick, Sol M., Kempher, Megan L., Dohnalkova, Alice C., Takaichi, Shinichi, Wang-Otomo, Zheng-Yu, Toyoda, Atsushi, Kurokawa, Ken, Mori, Hiroshi, Tsukatani, Yusuke

“…A new taxon is created for the thermophilic purple nonsulfur bacterium previously designated as Rhodopseudomonas strain GI. Strain GI was isolated from a New…”
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Effects of Genetic and Physiological Divergence on the Evolution of a Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium under Conditions of Elevated Temperature by Kempher, Megan L., Tao, Xuanyu, Song, Rong, Wu, Bo, Stahl, David A., Wall, Judy D., Arkin, Adam P., Zhou, Aifen, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Improving our understanding of how previous adaptation influences evolution has been a long-standing goal in evolutionary biology. Natural selection tends to…”
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Adaptive Evolution of Sphingobium hydrophobicum C1T in Electronic Waste Contaminated River Sediment by Song, Da, Chen, Xingjuan, Xu, Meiying, Hai, Rong, Zhou, Aifen, Tian, Renmao, Van Nostrand, Joy D., Kempher, Megan L., Guo, Jun, Sun, Guoping, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Electronic waste (e-waste) has caused a severe worldwide pollution problem. Despite increasing isolation of degradative microorganisms from e-waste…”
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Genomic Features and Pervasive Negative Selection in Rhodanobacter Strains Isolated from Nitrate and Heavy Metal Contaminated Aquifer by Peng, Mu, Wang, Dongyu, Lui, Lauren M, Nielsen, Torben, Tian, Renmao, Kempher, Megan L, Tao, Xuanyu, Pan, Chongle, Chakraborty, Romy, Deutschbauer, Adam M, Thorgersen, Michael P, Adams, Michael W W, Fields, Matthew W, Hazen, Terry C, Arkin, Adam P, Zhou, Aifen, Zhou, Jizhong

“…species dominate in the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) subsurface environments contaminated with acids, nitrate, metal radionuclides, and other heavy metals. To…”
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Bacterial type II toxin-antitoxin systems acting through post-translational modifications by Zhang, Si-Ping, Feng, Han-Zhong, Wang, Qian, Kempher, Megan L., Quan, Shuo-Wei, Tao, Xuanyu, Niu, Shaomin, Wang, Yong, Feng, Hu-Yuan, He, Yong-Xing

“…The post-translational modification (PTM) serves as an important molecular switch mechanism to modulate diverse biological functions in response to specific…”
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Characterization of a cold-active bacterium isolated from the South Pole “Ice Tunnel” by Madigan, Michael T., Kempher, Megan L., Bender, Kelly S., Sullivan, Paul, Matthew Sattley, W., Dohnalkova, Alice C., Joye, Samantha B.

“…Extremely cold microbial habitats on Earth (those below −30 °C) are rare and have not been surveyed for microbes as extensively as environments in the 0 to…”
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Disentangling direct from indirect relationships in association networks by Xiao, Naijia, Zhou, Aifen, Kempher, Megan L, Zhou, Benjamin Y, Shi, Zhou Jason, Yuan, Mengting, Guo, Xue, Wu, Linwei, Ning, Daliang, Van Nostrand, Joy, Firestone, Mary K, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Networks are vital tools for understanding and modeling interactions in complex systems in science and engineering, and direct and indirect interactions are…”
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Phylogeny and photoheterotrophy in the acidophilic phototrophic purple bacterium Rhodoblastus acidophilus by Kempher, Megan L., Madigan, Michael T.

“…Norbert Pfennig isolated the first acidophilic purple bacterium over 40 years ago and named the organism Rhodopseudomonas acidophila (now Rhodoblastus…”
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Environmental filtering decreases with fish development for the assembly of gut microbiota by Yan, Qingyun, Li, Jinjin, Yu, Yuhe, Wang, Jianjun, He, Zhili, Van Nostrand, Joy D., Kempher, Megan L., Wu, Liyou, Wang, Yaping, Liao, Lanjie, Li, Xinghao, Wu, Shu, Ni, Jiajia, Wang, Chun, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Summary Gut microbiota typically occupy habitats with definable limits/borders that are comparable to oceanic islands. The gut therefore can be regarded as an…”
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Genetic Basis of Chromate Adaptation and the Role of the Pre-existing Genetic Divergence during an Experimental Evolution Study with Desulfovibrio vulgaris Populations by Shi, Weiling, Ma, Qiao, Pan, Feiyan, Fan, Yupeng, Kempher, Megan L, Ning, Daliang, Qu, Yuanyuan, Wall, Judy D, Zhou, Aifen, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is a common environmental pollutant. However, little is known about the genetic basis of microbial evolution under Cr(VI) stress…”
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Nascent Genomic Evolution and Allopatric Speciation of Myroides profundi D25 in Its Transition from Land to Ocean by Zhang, Yu-Zhong, Li, Yi, Xie, Bin-Bin, Chen, Xiu-Lan, Yao, Qiong-Qiong, Zhang, Xi-Ying, Kempher, Megan L, Zhou, Jizhong, Oren, Aharon, Qin, Qi-Long

“…A large amount of bacterial biomass is transferred from land to ocean annually. Most transferred bacteria should not survive, but undoubtedly some do. It is…”
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Target integration of an exogenous β-glucosidase enhances cellulose degradation and ethanol production in Clostridium cellulolyticum by Tao, Xuanyu, Morgan, Josiah S., Liu, Jiantao, Kempher, Megan L., Xu, Tao, Zhou, Jizhong

“…[Display omitted] •First study to integrate an exogenous gene into Clostridium cellulolyticum.•Integration of secretory β-glucosidase increases cellulose…”
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Precise promoter integration improves cellulose bioconversion and thermotolerance in Clostridium cellulolyticum by Tao, Xuanyu, Xu, Tao, Kempher, Megan L., Liu, Jiantao, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Lignocellulose has been used for production of sustainable biofuels and value-added chemicals. However, the low-efficiency bioconversion of lignocellulose…”
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Development of a Markerless Deletion Mutagenesis System in Nitrate-Reducing Bacterium Rhodanobacter denitrificans by Tao, Xuanyu, Zhou, Aifen, Kempher, Megan L, Liu, Jiantao, Peng, Mu, Li, Yuan, Michael, Jonathan P, Chakraborty, Romy, Deutschbauer, Adam M, Arkin, Adam P, Zhou, Jizhong

“…has been found as the dominant genus in aquifers contaminated with high concentrations of nitrate and uranium in Oak Ridge, TN, USA. The stimulation of…”
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Response Regulator CD1688 Is a Negative Modulator of Sporulation in Clostridioides difficile by Kempher, Megan L., Morris, Savannah C., Shadid, Tyler M., Menon, Smita K., Ballard, Jimmy D., West, Ann H.

“…Two-component signal transduction systems (TCSs), consisting of a sensor histidine kinase (HK) and a response regulator (RR), sense environmental stimuli and…”
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Molecular basis for coordinating secondary metabolite production by bacterial and plant signaling molecules by Zhang, Nannan, Wu, Jin, Zhang, Siping, Yuan, Maoran, Xu, Hang, Li, Jie, Zhang, Pingping, Wang, Mingzhu, Kempher, Megan L., Tao, Xuanyu, Zhang, Li-Qun, Ge, Honghua, He, Yong-Xing

“…The production of secondary metabolites is a major mechanism used by beneficial rhizobacteria to antagonize plant pathogens. These bacteria have evolved to…”
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Functional and structural diversification of incomplete phosphotransferase system in cellulose-degrading clostridia by Xu, Tao, Tao, Xuanyu, He, Hongxi, Kempher, Megan L., Zhang, Siping, Liu, Xiaochun, Wang, Jun, Wang, Dongyu, Ning, Daliang, Pan, Chongle, Ge, Honghua, Zhang, Nannan, He, Yong-Xing, Zhou, Jizhong

“…Carbohydrate utilization is critical to microbial survival. The phosphotransferase system (PTS) is a well-documented microbial system with a prominent role in…”
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