MicrobiologyThe ISME JournalPeer-reviewed
A patchwork pathway of apparently recent origin enables degradation of the synthetic buffer compound TRIS in bacteria
Johannes Holert, Aron Borker, Laura Lucia Nübel…·Bodo Philipp
The paper discovers a recently evolved bacterial pathway for degrading TRIS, a synthetic buffer, through horizontal gene transfer and shows its global distribution.
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