The polysaccharide β-mannan, which is common in terrestrial plants but unknown in microalgae, was recently detected during diatom blooms. We identified a β-mannan polysaccharide utilization locus (PUL) in the genome of the marine Flavobacterium Muricauda sp. MAR_2010_75 which resembles PULs in bacte...
About one half of the global, biogenic carbon dioxide fixation into organic matter is driven by microscopic algae in the surface oceans. These microalgal activities generate, among other molecules, polysaccharides that are food for and recycled by bacteria with polysaccharide utilization loci (PULs)...
Fungal endo-M-NM-2-mannanases (M-NM-2-mannanases) are widely used as industrial enzymes; however, no transcriptional regulator of M-NM-2-mannanases has been identified in fungi or other eukaryotic cells to date. To identify a transcriptional regulator of M-NM-2-mannanases in Aspergillus oryzae, a ge...
The secretion of Extracellular Vesicles ((EVs) is a common process in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells for intercellular communication, survival, and pathogenesis. Previous studies have illustrated the presence of EVs in supernatants from pure cultures of bacteria, including Gram-positive and G...
In order to dissect the response from different fungal cell wall components, monocyte-derived dendritic cells obtained from healthy donors were collected and either left untreated, or treated for four hours with either mannan, zymosan, curdlan, whole yeast, or yeast spores. This experiment is relat...