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| Title |
Structural and Regulatory Genes Required to Make the Gas Dimethyl Sulfide in Bacteria
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| Published in |
Science, February 2007
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1135370 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jonathan D. Todd, Rachel Rogers, You Guo Li, Margaret Wexler, Philip L. Bond, Lei Sun, Andrew R. J. Curson, Gill Malin, Michael Steinke, Andrew W. B. Johnston |
| Abstract |
Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is a key compound in global sulfur and carbon cycles. DMS oxidation products cause cloud nucleation and may affect weather and climate. DMS is generated largely by bacterial catabolism of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), a secondary metabolite made by marine algae. We demonstrate that the bacterial gene dddD is required for this process and that its transcription is induced by the DMSP substrate. Cloned dddD from the marine bacterium Marinomonas and from two bacterial strains that associate with higher plants, the N(2)-fixing symbiont Rhizobium NGR234 and the root-colonizing Burkholderia cepacia AMMD, conferred to Escherichia coli the ability to make DMS from DMSP. The inferred enzymatic mechanism for DMS liberation involves an initial step in which DMSP is modified by addition of acyl coenzyme A, rather than the immediate release of DMS by a DMSP lyase, the previously suggested mechanism. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 151 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| Belgium | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 135 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 47 | 31% |
| Researcher | 32 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 5% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 21 | 14% |
| Unknown | 23 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 56 | 37% |
| Environmental Science | 32 | 21% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 16 | 11% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 8 | 5% |
| Chemistry | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 7% |
| Unknown | 24 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 August 2023.
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#3,609
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#57
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