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June 2010
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Introduction |
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Adams Lab is part of the Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The
University of Georgia. The laboratory is housed the Life
Sciences building on South campus and has been in operation for nearly two
decades. The group has a general interest in anaerobic microorganisms, and particularly those growing near and above 100°C, the so-called
hyperthermophiles. The archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus and the bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii are being used as model systems for various research projects. Projects involve the physiology, metabolism,
enzymology, metal utilization and the metabolic and genetic engineering of these organisms. For example, we have demonstrated that P. furiosus can be engineered to produce lactate, a metabolite that it does not make naturally. |
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What's New |
Cells to Metals...Hunting for metalloproteins.
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ENIGMA team publishes a new technique to find metal containing proteins in the journal Nature (UGA, C&E News, Nature).
- Hydrogenase team makes an active, thermostable Pyrococcus furiosus hydrogenase in E. coli (PLoS ONE).
- Anaerocellum thermophilum DSM 6725 is offically renamed to Caldicellulosiruptor bescii DSM 6725 based on BESC team's publication (IJSEM).
- BESC team's research shows that
Anaerocellum thermophilum eats poplar without help (AEM).
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