Redox-active antibiotics enhance phosphorus bioavailability.
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SUBMITTER: McRose DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8051141 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
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Redox-active antibiotics enhance phosphorus bioavailability.
McRose Darcy L DL Newman Dianne K DK
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20210301 6533
Microbial production of antibiotics is common, but our understanding of their roles in the environment is limited. In this study, we explore long-standing observations that microbes increase the production of redox-active antibiotics under phosphorus limitation. The availability of phosphorus, a nutrient required by all life on Earth and essential for agriculture, can be controlled by adsorption to and release from iron minerals by means of redox cycling. Using phenazine antibiotic production by ...[more]
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