Northen Lab researchers Nicole Ing, Kai Deng, and Trent Northen are authors on a paper examining glycoside hydrolases, or GHs. GHs are capable of hydrolyzing (or breaking down) polysaccharides, which make them an important compound for bioenergy production. A subfamily of GHs, GH5_4, can hydrolyze cellulose, xyloglucan, and mixed-linkage glucans […]
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JGI Metabolomics researchers Andrea Kuftin, Katherine Louie, and Trent Northen contributed to the paper “Development of platforms for functional characterization and production of phenazines using a multi-chassis approach via CRAGE,” which utilized metabolomics to analyze PCA (phenazine-1-carboxylic acid) and PDC (phenazine-1,6-dicarboxylic acid) from bacterial cultures. As previously highlighted, CRAGE (or […]
Northen Lab researchers Marc Goethem, Andrew Osborn, Ben Bowen, Tami Swenson, and Trent Northen are authors on the recently published paper “Long-read metagenomics of soil communities reveals phylum-specific secondary metabolite dynamics.” Key to this paper are biosynthetic gene clusters, or BGCs, which are groups of genes that encode a metabolic […]
Ying Wang and Trent Northen wrote a Genome Watch article published in a recent issue of Nature Reviews Microbiology. The article explores how cognitive performance can be enhanced by metabolites and microorganisms and focuses on research from across a wide range of host organisms. One of the examples is a […]
Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking, or GNPS, is a platform built for the analysis of MSMS data using crowdsourced MS libraries [2,3]. Northen Lab members Ben Bowen, Katherine Louie, and Trent Northen recently contributed to the paper “GNPS Dashboard: collaborative exploration of mass spectrometry data in the web browser,” […]
Two Northen Lab researchers, Tami Swenson and Trent Northen, contributed to a paper examining how biocrusts may influence soil fertility and biogeochemicals in subsurface mineral soils (soil deeper than 2cm). The role of biocrusts in relation to soil organic carbon and other nutrients is relatively opaque, but is an important […]