A new route for synthesis of dimethylsulphoniopropionate in marine algae
Article Abstract:
Marine algae produce 3-dimethylsulphoniopropionate (DMSP) which is degraded to dimethyl sulphide and which plays a major part in the global sulphur cycle. The process by which bacteria and algae form DMSP has, up until now, been ill understood. Research on the green macroalga Enteromorpha intenstinalis shows that marine algae use a different route from plants to synthesize DMSP.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Outfoxing insulin resistance?
Article Abstract:
Type II diabetes affects five percent of adults in most developed countries, and a far higher proposition of the population exhibits insulin resistance, a condition that predisposes individuals to diabetes, which is characterized by increased storage of fats and a failure to stop glucose synthesis.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Something new to hang your HAT on. Can the West contribute more to human frontiers? Taking a shine to myosin
- Abstracts: Voltage-dependent anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal on a grating surface. Continuous grey-scale image storage using optically aligned nematic liquid crystals
- Abstracts: Seeing only the right half of the forest but cutting down all the trees? Determining cortical landscapes
- Abstracts: Drugs merger seeks strength in breadth. Radical changes urged in UK curriculum. Asian economies lead increase in carbon dioxide emissions
- Abstracts: Essential role for diacylglycerol in protein transport from the yeast Golgi complex. Crystal structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae phosphatidylinositol-transfer protein