{"id":717669,"date":"2022-02-25T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=717669"},"modified":"2022-02-25T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:06:09","slug":"some-microbes-steal-methanobactins-produced-by-other-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=717669","title":{"rendered":"Some microbes steal methanobactins produced by other microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As John Donne wrote &#8220;no man is an island,&#8221; and similarly no microbe is truly alone. Microbes, like people, interact with each other in many different ways. Sometimes they cooperate, sometimes they compete, and sometimes they &#8220;steal&#8221; from one another. A remarkable example is how methanotrophs or &#8220;methane-eaters&#8221; interact. Methanotrophs need copper in order to consume methane. To that end, methanotrophs have evolved strategies to collect copper by producing a copper-binding compound named methanobactin. But some methanotrophs actively take up methanobactins produced by other methanotrophs to fulfill their own copper needs. Such &#8220;theft&#8221; makes them more competitive than others and controls how the overall community consumes methane.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-02-microbes-methanobactins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Some microbes steal methanobactins produced by other microbes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As John Donne wrote &#8220;no man is an island,&#8221; and similarly no microbe is truly alone. Microbes, like people, interact with each other in many different ways. Sometimes they cooperate,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}