Takuro Nunoura

The paper investigates CO and H2 as energy sources for microbes in the Mariana Trench, finding higher H2 oxidation rates at depth compared to CO.

The paper establishes a tripartite co-culture system to study defensive mutualism between a Nanobdellati symbiont and its host, revealing glycan-mediated protection against viral infection.

The paper shows direct CO fixation to acetyl-CoA in archaeal and bacterial Wood-Ljungdahl pathways under hydrogenogenic growth using 13C tracer-based metabolomics.

The paper identifies a new family of Obelisk-like cccRNAs in hot springs using FLDS, expanding the Obelisk superfamily with structurally similar but sequence-divergent proteins.

The paper identifies a new family of marine bacteriophages with double-stranded RNA genomes, named Paraxenoviridae, based on genomic and structural analyses.

This study examines how acetate affects CO2 fixation pathways in thermophilic bacteria, showing acetate suppresses the WL pathway and promotes the rTCA cycle in some species.

This study isolates and characterizes a novel Nanobdellota archaeon and its host, revealing an attachment organelle that mediates their ectosymbiotic interaction.

The paper analyzes SAR202 bacterial genomes to show paralog expansions correlate with metabolic specialization and niche adaptation across ocean depths and regions.