Nikos C. Kyrpides

TL;DR: This paper presented a global atlas of 4,728 metagenomic samples from mass-transit systems in 60 cities over three years, representing the first systematic, worldwide catalog of the urban microbial ecosystem.

TL;DR: The data indicate that bacteriophages can infect hosts with a different genetic code and demonstrate phage-host antagonism based on code differences and the abundance and diversity of genetic codes present in environmental organisms should be considered in the design of engineered organisms with altered genetic codes.

TL;DR: Observations suggest that the TA-degrading consortium consists of additional syntrophic interactions beyond the standard H2-producing syntroph–methanogen partnership that may serve to improve community stability.

TL;DR: Two DEAD family motifs in IRA2 are essential for IRA2–NBD1 binding, optimal nucleotide turnover and polypeptide translocation, and it is proposed that translocation ligands alleviate C‐terminal domain suppression, allowing IRA2 to stimulateucleotide turnover at NBD1.

TL;DR: Analysis of the entire Halfdan oil field in the North Sea using quantitative PCR, multigenic sequencing, comparative metagenomic and genomic bins reconstruction revealed systematic shifts in microbial community composition and metabolic potential, as well as changing ecological strategies in response to anthropogenic perturbation of the oil field ecosystem, related to length of time in production.