Jibin Sun

TL;DR: The filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger is widely exploited by the fermentation industry for the production of enzymes and organic acids, particularly citric acid, and the sequenced genome revealed a large number of major facilitator superfamily transporters and fungal zinc binuclear cluster transcription factors.

TL;DR: The genomic analysis indicates that the LuxS enzyme required for AI-2 synthesis is widespread in bacteria, while the periplasmic binding protein LuxP is only present in Vibrio strains, which indicates that other organisms may either use components different from theAI-2 signal transduction system of VIBrio strains to sense the signal of AI-1, or they do not have such a quorum sensing system at all.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed genome-wide gene expression changes during the begin of physical contact between Trichoderma atroviride and two plant pathogens Botrytis cinerea and Rhizoctonia solani, and compared with gene expression patterns of mycelial and conidiating cultures, respectively.

TL;DR: This work developed a multiplex automated Corynebacterium glutamicum base editing method (MACBETH) using CRISPR/Cas9 and activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), without foreign DNA templates, achieving single-, double-, and triple-locus editing with efficiencies up to 100, 87.2% and 23.3%, respectively.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, the intracellular proteome of A. niger growing on xylose or maltose in well-aerated controlled bioreactor cultures differed more from a culture growing in shake flasks using the same medium than from theBioreactor culture growing on maltose.