Not exact matches
Ultimately, this may enable the prediction of nutrient cycling in terrestrial
microbial ecosystems, and perhaps even manipulation
by adding specific
metabolites.
By contrast, mice raised in the germ - free cages showed worse motor symptoms when they either were treated with
microbial metabolites called short - chain fatty acids or received fecal transplants of gut microbes from patients with Parkinson's disease.
In the future, winemakers might use
microbial analyses to improve their products
by identifying bacteria and fungi associated with desirable
metabolites, or
by finding troublesome taxa before they cause spoilage or other problems during fermentation
In the lead profile, Jansson represented those researchers investigating such diseases
by using omics technologies - uncovering the DNA sequences, expressed genes, and
metabolite signatures used to reveal links to
microbial functions in the gut.
Chapter 4,
by Demain and Sergio Sanchez, deals with
microbial synthesis of primary
metabolites.
O2 is also a biological
metabolite, and the
microbial and oceanic phytoplankton biosphere is still a vast undiscovered wilderness and extremely difficult to quantify — do we really know the carbon isotope types and volumes emitted
by ALL oceanic phytoplankton and algae?