Project description:The nitrogen rich compound guanidine occurs widely in nature and is used by microbes as a nitrogen source, but microorganisms that grow on guanidine have not yet been discovered. Here we show that complete ammonia-oxidizing microbes (comammox), but no other known nitrifiers, encode homologues of a guanidinase and that the comammox isolate Nitrospira inopinata grows on guanidine as sole source of energy and reductant. Proteomics, kinetic enzyme characterization, and the crystal structure of the N. inopinata guanidinase homologue demonstrated that it is a bona fide guanidinase. Transcription of comammox guanidinases was induced in wastewater treatment plant microbiomes upon incubation with guanidine, and guanidine degradation was detected in these systems. The discovery of guanidine as a selective growth substrate for comammox shows a unique niche of these globally important nitrifiers and offers new options for their isolation as well as for targeted manipulation of nitrifier communities.
Project description:Primary Objectives:
1. To evaluate knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and values that influence perceptions and utilization of colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) among first-degree relatives of Hispanic CRC patients.
2. To assess factors influencing Hispanic CRC patients’ communication of CRC risk and screening information to their FDRs.
Secondary Objective:
1) To establish the feasibility of recruiting Hispanic CRC patients and their FDRs from the institutional patient database and/or MDACC clinics.
| 2067540 | ecrin-mdr-crc
Project description:Environmental factors influencing the phyllosphere eukaryotic algal community
| PRJNA682900 | ENA
Project description:Comammox Enrichment Effects in Different Reactor Configurations
Project description:High T cell infiltration in colorectal cancer (CRC) correlates with a better disease outcome and immunotherapy response. This is observed in only a small subset of CRC patients. A better understanding of the factors influencing tumor T cell responses in CRC could inspire novel therapeutic approaches to achieve broader immunotherapy responsiveness. Numerous cell types and factors within the tumor microenvironment (TME) have been described as T cell suppressive within multiple mouse and human cancers. The influence of the TME on T cell infiltration and response in CRC is currently a matter of intense investigation. Here we investigated gene expression of different cell types isolated from mouse colon tumors or control tissue in order to find potential T cell suppressive cues present within these tumors.
2019-10-29 | GSE126874 | GEO
Project description:Structural characteristics and influencing factors of soil microbial community in different vegetation types restoration in Zhangjiakou area