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Akihiro Okamoto

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Open access Sep 2026

Genome-wide fitness profiling reveals flagellar rotation as an energetic liability during anaerobic maintenance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

The results show that in a low-powered maintenance state, limiting energy-dissipating processes, such as proton-motive force loss through flagellar rotation, supports cell survival, and suggest that growth-arrested cells live at a bioenergetic knife’s edge, where an energy-dissipating process can tip the balance betwee...

Kemal Demirer, R. A. Melnyk, Hans K. Carlson et al. · bioRxiv · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

Cellulose-fueled extracellular electron transfer in termite gut microbes

ABSTRACT Termites decompose billions of tons of lignocellulosic material annually through the cellulolytic metabolism of their gut microbiota. However, the mechanisms by which cellulose degradation drives anaerobic metabolism of the gut microbiome remain poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate cellulose-driven extracel...

Xiao Deng, Akihiro Okamoto · Applied and Environmental Mi... · 0 citations