Article
Sulfated mannan helps diatoms domesticate their microbiome
2024-07-05
Abstract excerpt
Diatoms are a keystone phylum in Earth’s ecosystems, specializing in oxygen production and carbohydrate fixation that fuels global food webs. Diatoms host a microbiome, but how they preferentially collect bacteria with complementary traits remains unknown. Here we show that diatoms exude a C6-sulfated α-1,3-mannan that serves as a selective carbon source for adapted bacteria. Its structure was resolved by NMR spec...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 62ddd57e-0842-59e2-8cf9-0b6fc182ed9f
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.07.03.601839
