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Structural and Biochemical Insights into Dimethylsulfoniopropionate Cleavage by Cofactor-Bound DddK from the Prolific Marine Bacterium Pelagibacter.
Biochemistry - 13 Jun 2017
Schnicker Nicholas J, De Silva Saumya M, Todd Jonathan D, Dey Mishtu
Abstract excerpt
Enormous amounts of the organic osmolyte dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) are produced in marine environments where bacterial DMSP lyases cleave it, yielding acrylate and the climate-active gas dimethyl sulfide (DMS). SAR11 bacteria are the most abundant clade of heterotrophic bacteria in the oceans and play a key role in DMSP catabolism. An important environmental factor affecting DMS generation via DMSP lyases...
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