{"title":"Correction to “Novel Gene Clusters for Secondary Metabolite Synthesis in Mesophotic Sponge-Associated Bacteria”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70136","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chen, N., Liu, L., Wang, J., et al. 2025. “Novel Gene Clusters for Secondary Metabolite Synthesis in Mesophotic Sponge-Associated Bacteria.” <i>Microbial Biotechnology</i> 18, no. 2: e70107. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70107.</p><p>In the Acknowledgements and Funding sections, the text ‘41776168’ was incorrect. This should have read as ‘42176101’. Additionally, ‘Ningbo Natural Science Foundation (2021Z04)’ was incorrect. This should have read as ‘Ningbo Key Science and Technology Development Program (2021Z046)’.</p><p>The online article has also been updated with these corrections.</p><p>We apologise for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70136","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Multiple Chaperone DnaK–FliC Flagellin Interactions Are Required for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Flagellum Assembly and Indicate a New Function for DnaK’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70138","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Molinari, G., S. S. Ribeiro, K. Müller, et al. 2025. “Multiple Chaperone DnaK–FliC Flagellin Interactions Are Required for <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> Flagellum Assembly and Indicate a New Function for DnaK.” Microbial Biotechnology 18, no. 2: e70096. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70096.</p><p>In paragraph 4 of the ‘3.8 | DnaK Functions in an ATP-Independent Manner at Both Physiological and Mild Acidic pHs’ subsection in the ‘Results’ section, the equation ‘Δ<i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>Initial</sub> = <i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iDnaK</sub><i>D − A</i><sub>iSOD1</sub>’ was incorrect. This should have read: ‘<i>ΔD/A</i><sub>Initial</sub> <i>= D/A</i><sub>iDnaK</sub> <i>− D/A</i><sub>iSOD1</sub>’.</p><p>In caption of Figure 6 (C) of the ‘Results’ section, the equation ‘Δ<i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>Initial</sub> = <i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iDnaK/Nucleotides</sub><i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iSOD1</sub>’ was incorrect. This should have read: ‘Δ<i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>Initial</sub> = <i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iDnaK/Nucleotides</sub> − <i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iSOD1</sub>’.</p><p>We apologise for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70138","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ignacio Belda, Belen Benitez-Dominguez, Sergio Izquierdo-Gea, Jean C. C. Vila, Javier Ruiz
{"title":"Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as Frameworks to Study Wine Fermentations","authors":"Ignacio Belda, Belen Benitez-Dominguez, Sergio Izquierdo-Gea, Jean C. C. Vila, Javier Ruiz","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Winemaking has leveraged microbiology to enhance wine quality, typically by engineering and inoculating individual yeast strains with desirable traits. However, yeast strains do not grow alone during wine fermentation, rather they are embedded in diverse and evolving microbial communities exhibiting complex ecological dynamics. Understanding and predicting the interplay between the yeast community over the course of the species succession and the chemical matrix of wine can benefit from recognising that wine, like all microbial ecosystems, is subject to general ecological and evolutionary rules. In this piece, we outline how conceptual and methodological frameworks from community ecology and evolutionary biology can assist wine yeast researchers in improving wine fermentation processes by understanding the mechanisms governing population dynamics, predicting and engineering these important microcosms, and unlocking the genetic potential for wine strain development.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to ‘Multiple Chaperone DnaK–FliC Flagellin Interactions Are Required for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Flagellum Assembly and Indicate a New Function for DnaK’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70138","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Molinari, G., S. S. Ribeiro, K. Müller, et al. 2025. “Multiple Chaperone DnaK–FliC Flagellin Interactions Are Required for <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> Flagellum Assembly and Indicate a New Function for DnaK.” Microbial Biotechnology 18, no. 2: e70096. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70096.</p><p>In paragraph 4 of the ‘3.8 | DnaK Functions in an ATP-Independent Manner at Both Physiological and Mild Acidic pHs’ subsection in the ‘Results’ section, the equation ‘Δ<i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>Initial</sub> = <i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iDnaK</sub><i>D − A</i><sub>iSOD1</sub>’ was incorrect. This should have read: ‘<i>ΔD/A</i><sub>Initial</sub> <i>= D/A</i><sub>iDnaK</sub> <i>− D/A</i><sub>iSOD1</sub>’.</p><p>In caption of Figure 6 (C) of the ‘Results’ section, the equation ‘Δ<i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>Initial</sub> = <i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iDnaK/Nucleotides</sub><i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iSOD1</sub>’ was incorrect. This should have read: ‘Δ<i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>Initial</sub> = <i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iDnaK/Nucleotides</sub> − <i>D</i>/<i>A</i><sub>iSOD1</sub>’.</p><p>We apologise for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70138","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ignacio Belda, Belen Benitez-Dominguez, Sergio Izquierdo-Gea, Jean C. C. Vila, Javier Ruiz
{"title":"Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as Frameworks to Study Wine Fermentations","authors":"Ignacio Belda, Belen Benitez-Dominguez, Sergio Izquierdo-Gea, Jean C. C. Vila, Javier Ruiz","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Winemaking has leveraged microbiology to enhance wine quality, typically by engineering and inoculating individual yeast strains with desirable traits. However, yeast strains do not grow alone during wine fermentation, rather they are embedded in diverse and evolving microbial communities exhibiting complex ecological dynamics. Understanding and predicting the interplay between the yeast community over the course of the species succession and the chemical matrix of wine can benefit from recognising that wine, like all microbial ecosystems, is subject to general ecological and evolutionary rules. In this piece, we outline how conceptual and methodological frameworks from community ecology and evolutionary biology can assist wine yeast researchers in improving wine fermentation processes by understanding the mechanisms governing population dynamics, predicting and engineering these important microcosms, and unlocking the genetic potential for wine strain development.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhaochen Wu, Junting Zhang, Jianjun Hao, Pengfei Liu, Xili Liu
{"title":"Understanding Efflux-Mediated Multidrug Resistance in Botrytis cinerea for Improved Management of Fungicide Resistance","authors":"Zhaochen Wu, Junting Zhang, Jianjun Hao, Pengfei Liu, Xili Liu","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Botrytis cinerea</i> is a major fungal pathogen infecting over 1400 plant species. It poses a significant threat to agriculture due to multiple fungicide resistance and multidrug resistance, involves resistance to fungicides with different modes of action. Multiple fungicide resistance is mostly due to an accumulation of point mutations in target genes over time, and MDR is result from efflux (e-MDR) and metabolism (m-MDR). This review introduces the occurrence of e-MDR of <i>B. cinerea</i>, the key mechanisms, origins and management strategies of e-MDR in fields. New materials such as nanomaterials become a strategy to overcoming MDR via inhibition of ABC transporter. A deeper understanding of efflux-mediated MDR will provide a support for the MDR management of <i>B. cinerea</i> and the efficient utilization of fungicides.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhaochen Wu, Junting Zhang, Jianjun Hao, Pengfei Liu, Xili Liu
{"title":"Understanding Efflux-Mediated Multidrug Resistance in Botrytis cinerea for Improved Management of Fungicide Resistance","authors":"Zhaochen Wu, Junting Zhang, Jianjun Hao, Pengfei Liu, Xili Liu","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Botrytis cinerea</i> is a major fungal pathogen infecting over 1400 plant species. It poses a significant threat to agriculture due to multiple fungicide resistance and multidrug resistance, involves resistance to fungicides with different modes of action. Multiple fungicide resistance is mostly due to an accumulation of point mutations in target genes over time, and MDR is result from efflux (e-MDR) and metabolism (m-MDR). This review introduces the occurrence of e-MDR of <i>B. cinerea</i>, the key mechanisms, origins and management strategies of e-MDR in fields. New materials such as nanomaterials become a strategy to overcoming MDR via inhibition of ABC transporter. A deeper understanding of efflux-mediated MDR will provide a support for the MDR management of <i>B. cinerea</i> and the efficient utilization of fungicides.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George B. Cheng, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Anna Schnürer
{"title":"Metagenomic Exploration Uncovers Several Novel ‘Candidatus’ Species Involved in Acetate Metabolism in High-Ammonia Thermophilic Biogas Processes","authors":"George B. Cheng, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Anna Schnürer","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70133","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biogas reactors operating at elevated ammonia levels are commonly susceptible to process disturbances, further augmented at thermophilic temperatures. The major cause is assumed to be linked to inhibition followed by an imbalance between different functional microbial groups, centred around the last two steps of the anaerobic digestion, involving acetogens, syntrophic acetate oxidisers (SAOB) and methanogens. Acetogens are key contributors to reactor efficiency, acting as the crucial link between the hydrolysis and fermentation steps and the final methanogenesis step. Their major product is acetate, at high ammonia levels further converted by SAOB and hydrogenotrophic methanogens to biogas. Even though these functionally different processes are well recognised, less is known about the responsible organism at elevated temperature and ammonia conditions. The main aim of this study was to garner insights into the penultimate stages in three thermophilic reactors (52°C) operated under high ammonia levels (FAN 0.7–1.0 g/L; TAN 3.6–4.4 g/L). The primary objective was to identify potential acetogens and SAOBs. Metagenomic data from the three reactors were analysed for the reductive acetyl-CoA pathway (Wood–Ljungdahl Pathway) and glycine synthase reductase pathway. The results revealed a lack of true acetogens but uncovered three potential SAOB candidates that harbour the WLP, ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Thermodarwinisyntropha acetovorans’, ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Thermosyntrophaceticus schinkii’, ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Thermotepidanaerobacter aceticum’, and a potential lipid-degrader ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Thermosyntrophomonas ammoiaca’.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George B. Cheng, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Anna Schnürer
{"title":"Metagenomic Exploration Uncovers Several Novel ‘Candidatus’ Species Involved in Acetate Metabolism in High-Ammonia Thermophilic Biogas Processes","authors":"George B. Cheng, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Anna Schnürer","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70133","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biogas reactors operating at elevated ammonia levels are commonly susceptible to process disturbances, further augmented at thermophilic temperatures. The major cause is assumed to be linked to inhibition followed by an imbalance between different functional microbial groups, centred around the last two steps of the anaerobic digestion, involving acetogens, syntrophic acetate oxidisers (SAOB) and methanogens. Acetogens are key contributors to reactor efficiency, acting as the crucial link between the hydrolysis and fermentation steps and the final methanogenesis step. Their major product is acetate, at high ammonia levels further converted by SAOB and hydrogenotrophic methanogens to biogas. Even though these functionally different processes are well recognised, less is known about the responsible organism at elevated temperature and ammonia conditions. The main aim of this study was to garner insights into the penultimate stages in three thermophilic reactors (52°C) operated under high ammonia levels (FAN 0.7–1.0 g/L; TAN 3.6–4.4 g/L). The primary objective was to identify potential acetogens and SAOBs. Metagenomic data from the three reactors were analysed for the reductive acetyl-CoA pathway (Wood–Ljungdahl Pathway) and glycine synthase reductase pathway. The results revealed a lack of true acetogens but uncovered three potential SAOB candidates that harbour the WLP, ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Thermodarwinisyntropha acetovorans’, ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Thermosyntrophaceticus schinkii’, ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Thermotepidanaerobacter aceticum’, and a potential lipid-degrader ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Thermosyntrophomonas ammoiaca’.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rational Design Assisted by Evolutionary Engineering Allows (De)Construction and Optimization of Complex Phenotypes in Pseudomonas putida KT2440","authors":"Blas Blázquez, Juan Nogales","doi":"10.1111/1751-7915.70132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70132","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Beyond the rational construction of genetic determinants to encode target functions, complex phenotype engineering requires the contextualisation of their expression within the metabolic and genetic background of the host strain. Furthermore, wherever metabolic complexity is involved, phenotype engineering demands standard, reliable, plug-and-play tools. We introduce GENIO (GENome Integration and fitness Optimization platform for <i>Pseudomonas putida</i>), a framework to optimise genetic circuit performance by means of (i) chromosome-location-based differential gene expression and (ii) subsequent fitness improvement through evolutionary engineering if needed. Using gene expression strength and cell-to-cell variation, we characterised 10 <i>P. putida</i> chromosomal loci (ppLPS) to show that genome context rather than distance to ORI is the main factor driving differential expression performance. We further contextualised ppLPS gene expression against well-known chromosomal integration sites and plasmids displaying different copy numbers. GENIO supports comprehensive exploration of the gene expression space across <i>P. putida</i>'s genome while unlocking performance optimization of complex heterologous metabolic pathways through evolutionary engineering. To demonstrate the usability of GENIO, we restored <i>P. putida</i>'s aromatic hydrocarbon metabolism by (de)constructing the toluene/<i>m</i>-xylene catabolic pathway coded in the pWW0 plasmid. We also showed that engineering complex phenotypes requires accurate contextualisation of the synthetic pathways involved, a process that benefits from biological robustness.</p>","PeriodicalId":209,"journal":{"name":"Microbial Biotechnology","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1751-7915.70132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}