Fucoidans from brown algae and diatoms drive marine carbon sequestration partly because they're hard to break down. Sichert et al. show how synergistic interactions between degraders are critical for their degradation, giving insights into ocean carbon cycling
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Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean - Nature
Efficient degradation of fucoidans depends on complementary bacterial guilds that cooperatively break backbone and side-chain sugars, revealing a conserved, globally relevant mechanism that shapes mar...
