MicrobiologybioRxiv
A patchwork pathway of apparently recent origin enables degradation of the synthetic buffer compound TRIS in bacteria
J. Holert, A. Borker, L. L. Nuebel…·B. Philipp
The paper discovers a recently evolved bacterial pathway for degrading TRIS, a synthetic buffer, through horizontal gene transfer and shows its global distribution.
DOI 10.1093/ismejo/wrad023