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Boronated tartrolon antibiotic produced by symbiotic cellulose-degrading bacteria in shipworm gills.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Jan 2013
Elshahawi Sherif I, Trindade-Silva Amaro E, Hanora Amro, Han Andrew W, Flores Malem S, Vizzoni Vinicius, Schrago Carlos G, Soares Carlos A, Concepcion Gisela P, Distel Dan L, Schmidt Eric W, Haygood Margo G
Abstract excerpt
Shipworms are marine wood-boring bivalve mollusks (family Teredinidae) that harbor a community of closely related Gammaproteobacteria as intracellular endosymbionts in their gills. These symbionts have been proposed to assist the shipworm host in cellulose digestion and have been shown to play a role in nitrogen fixation. The genome of one strain of Teredinibacter turnerae, the first shipworm symbiont to be...
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