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CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue -, Pages 58-65Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.01.011
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- BBSRC
- NERC of the UK
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/H002642/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J01138X/1, NE/N002385/1, NE/M004449/1, NE/F001312/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/H002642/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NE/N002385/1, NE/F001312/1, NE/M004449/1, NE/J01138X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Largely using gene-based evidence, the last few years have seen real insights on the diverse ways in which different microbes break down dimethylsulfoniopropionate, an abundant anti-stress molecule that is made by marine algae, some corals and a few angiosperms. Here, we review more recent advances in which in vitro biochemical tools - including structural determinations - have shed new light on how the corresponding enzymes act on DMSP. These have revealed how enzymes in very different polypeptide families can act on this substrate, often by novel ways, and with broader implications that extend from enzymatic mechanisms to microbial ecology.
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