Microorganisms play crucial roles in water recycling, pollution removal and resource recovery
in the wastewater industry. The structure of these microbial communities is increasingly …

Amyloids are highly abundant in many microbial biofilms and may play an important role in
their architecture. Nevertheless, little is known of the amyloid proteins. We report the …

Small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) genes, 16S in bacteria and 18S in eukaryotes,
have been the standard phylogenetic markers used to characterize microbial diversity and …

Anaerobic digestion for biogas production is reliant on the tightly coupled synergistic
activities of complex microbial consortia. Members of the uncultured A6 phylotype, within the …

The success of Pseudomonas species as opportunistic pathogens derives in great part from
their ability to form stable biofilms that offer protection against chemical and mechanical …

Anaerobic digestion is widely applied to treat organic waste at wastewater treatment plants.
Characterisation of the underlying microbiology represents a source of information to …

The fap operon, encoding functional amyloids in P seudomonas (Fap), is present in most
pseudomonads, but so far the expression and importance for biofilm formation has only been …

Escherichia coli and a few other members of the Enterobacteriales can produce functional
amyloids known as curli. These extracellular fibrils are involved in biofilm formation and …

Cable bacteria of the family Desulfobulbaceae form centimeter-long filaments comprising
thousands of cells. They occur worldwide in the surface of aquatic sediments, where they …

The amyloid fold is usually considered a result of protein misfolding. However, a number of
studies have recently shown that the amyloid structure is also used in nature for functional …