Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake
...g living organisms, in part because it isgenerally assumed that it is faithfully transmitted from parent tooffspring. However, in the case of this new microbe, it appears thatDNA encoding a small portion of the ribosomal gene in a proteobacteriumjumped across the vast evolutionary distance that separates the...Scientists find missing enzyme for tuberculosis iron scavenging pathway
...quence databases. If a close match is found, it is assumed that the function is the same or similar." Rv1347c is one of these annotated antibiotic resistance genes in M. tuberculosis. It encodes a putative aminoglycoside N-acetyltransferase that is thought to be involved in resistance to aminoglycoside anti...