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Aug 2026
Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean.
It is shown that fucoidans are degraded through synergistic interactions between specialized bacteria with complementary metabolic functions, providing a mechanistic framework for understanding carbon cycling in the ocean and for engineering synthetic microbial consortia to degrade recalcitrant polysaccharides.
Andreas Sichert, Shaul Pollak, Taylor Priest et al.
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