Finn L. Aachmann

The paper shows phosphate starvation reduces bacterial fucan digestion, stabilizing carbon sequestration by algae.

This paper characterizes the alginate lyase BoPL38 from Bacteroides ovatus, revealing its dual catalytic activities and structural mechanisms for alginate degradation and epimerization.

This paper identifies the genetic basis for alginate catabolism in the non-photosynthetic diatom Nitzschia sing1, showing how horizontal gene transfer and subsequent gene duplication and neofunctionalization enabled adaptation to a heterotrophic lifestyle.

This study elucidates the molecular mechanism of polysaccharide lyases involved in alginate degradation using structural and computational methods.