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    Alternative dimethylsulfoniopropionate biosynthesis enzymes in diverse and abundant microorganisms

    Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is an abundant marine organosulfur compound with roles in stress protection, chemotaxis, nutrient and sulfur cycling and climate regulation. Here we report the discovery of a ...

    **yan Wang, Andrew R. J. Curson, Shun Zhou, Ornella Carrión, Ji Liu… in Nature Microbiology (2024)

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    DMSOP-cleaving enzymes are diverse and widely distributed in marine microorganisms

    Dimethylsulfoxonium propionate (DMSOP) is a recently identified and abundant marine organosulfur compound with roles in oxidative stress protection, global carbon and sulfur cycling and, as shown here, potenti...

    Ornella Carrión, Chun-Yang Li, Ming Peng, **yan Wang, Georg Pohnert… in Nature Microbiology (2023)

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    The effect of Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2, a hydrocarbon-metabolising organism, on gas holdup in a 4-phase bubble column bioprocess

    To design bioprocesses utilising hydrocarbon-metabolising organisms (HMO) as biocatalysts, the effect of the organism on the hydrodynamics of bubble column reactor (BCR), such as gas holdup, needs to be invest...

    Ayman A. Abufalgha, Andrew R. J. Curson… in Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering (2023)

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    Bacteria are important dimethylsulfoniopropionate producers in coastal sediments

    Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and its catabolite dimethyl sulfide (DMS) are key marine nutrients1,2 that have roles in global sulfur cycling2, atmospheric chemistry3, signalling4,5 and, potentially, climate r...

    Beth T. Williams, Kasha Cowles, Ana Bermejo Martínez… in Nature Microbiology (2019)

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    Biogenic production of DMSP and its degradation to DMS—their roles in the global sulfur cycle

    Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is the most abundant form of volatile sulfur in Earth’s oceans, and is mainly produced by the enzymatic clevage of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP). DMS and DMSP play important roles in...

    **ao-Hua Zhang, Ji Liu, **gli Liu, Guipeng Yang… in Science China Life Sciences (2019)

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    Author Correction: DSYB catalyses the key step of dimethylsulfoniopropionate biosynthesis in many phytoplankton

    In the version of this Letter originally published, the Methods incorrectly stated that all phytoplankton cultures were sampled in mid-exponential phase. The low-nitrogen cultures were sampled in early station...

    Andrew R. J. Curson, Beth T. Williams, Benjamin J. Pinchbeck… in Nature Microbiology (2019)

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    DSYB catalyses the key step of dimethylsulfoniopropionate biosynthesis in many phytoplankton

    Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is a globally important organosulfur molecule and the major precursor for dimethyl sulfide. These compounds are important info-chemicals, key nutrients for marine microorganis...

    Andrew R. J. Curson, Beth T. Williams, Benjamin J. Pinchbeck… in Nature Microbiology (2018)

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    Dimethylsulfoniopropionate biosynthesis in marine bacteria and identification of the key gene in this process

    Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is one of the Earth's most abundant organosulfur molecules, a signalling molecule1, a key nutrient for marine microorganisms2,3 and the major precursor for gaseous dimethyl sulfi...

    Andrew R. J. Curson, Ji Liu, Ana Bermejo Martínez, Robert T. Green… in Nature Microbiology (2017)

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    Diversity of DMSP transport in marine bacteria, revealed by genetic analyses

    The enzyme product of the dddD gene, found in several different marine bacteria, acts on dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), liberating dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and generating 3-OH-propionate as the initially detect...

    Lei Sun, Andrew R. J. Curson, Jonathan D. Todd, Andrew W. B. Johnston in Biogeochemistry (2012)

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    Multiple DMSP lyases in the γ-proteobacterium Oceanimonas doudoroffii

    The marine γ-proteobacterium Oceanimonas doudoroffii was shown to have at least three different enzymes, each of which can cleave dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), an abundant compatible solute made by different...

    Andrew R. J. Curson, Emily K. Fowler, Shilo Dickens… in Biogeochemistry (2012)

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    Catabolism of dimethylsulphoniopropionate: microorganisms, enzymes and genes

  12. The anti-stress molecule dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) is made in vast quantities — about 1 billion tonnes per year — by many single-celled plankton and s...

    13. Andrew R. J. Curson, Jonathan D. Todd, Matthew J. Sullivan… in Nature Reviews Microbiology (2011)