Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

A guanidine-degrading enzyme controls genomic stability of ethylene-producing cyanobacteria

  • Bo Wang,
  • Yao Xu,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Joshua S. Yuan,
  • Carl H. Johnson,
  • Jamey D. Young,
  • Jianping Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25369-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The metabolic pathways used by microbes to degrade guanidine or mitigate its toxicity remain unclear. Here, the authors report a guanidine degrading enzyme that controls genomic stability of ethylene producing cyanobacterial strains.