MWU Biochemistry Faculty Member Contributes to New Genome Sequence

The work will help advance research as a model for investigation of nitrogen fixation and other biochemical processes, and will pave the way for new applications in biotechnology, including the possible use of A. vinelandii as a "factory" for the production of other proteins, in particular those that may be damaged by the presence of oxygen.

The work of the project team was supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant and M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Life Sciences Program grants, and will be featured on the cover of the second July 2009 issue (14) of the Journal of Bacteriology. It included researchers from VBI, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest University, Monsanto, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Biotecnologia y Genomica de Plantas (Spain), Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil), Hiram College, Centro de Estudios de Biodiversidad y Biotecnologia (Argentina), Midwestern University, Seattle Pacific University, University of Arizona, Macquarie University (Australia), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Sainsbury Laboratory (United Kingdom), the John Innes Centre (United Kingdom), and the University of Washington.

For more: go to the Journal of Bacteriology, May 8, 2009, Epub ahead of print, oi:10.1128/JB.00504-09 at http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/short/JB.00504-09v1