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BACTERIAL-WORM INTERACTIONS

Harvesting Moco

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The molybdenum cofactor (Moco) is a fragile prosthetic group essential for most organisms. Nematodes are now capable of extracting Moco from their bacterial diet to mediate detoxification of sulfite.

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Fig. 1: Interkingdom transfer of the prosthetic group molybdenum cofactor (Moco) and its precursor cPMP from the bacterium E. coli to the nematode C. elegans.

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