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The Domain of Bacteria and Their Volatile Metabolic Potential

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Bacterial Volatile Compounds as Mediators of Airborne Interactions

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The ability to produce volatile compounds is widely distributed among bacteria. A comprehensive summary of volatiles reported to be emitted by different fungal and bacterial species can be found in the mVOC database (http://bioinformatics.charite.de/mvoc). This chapter aims to summarize different features of bacterial phyla, classes, families, and genera present in the mVOC database and review the different habitats where volatile producers have been isolated from. As a result, bacteria belonging to the phylum of Proteobacteria were the most studied mVOC producers. Moreover, soil, marine environments, and the human body turned out to be the main isolation sources of the microbes compiled in the mVOC database. Additionally, general biosynthetic routes from the primary as well as secondary metabolism are presented which ultimately can result in the production of microbial volatile metabolites.

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Lemfack, MC., Bahl, H., Piechulla, B., Magnus, N. (2020). The Domain of Bacteria and Their Volatile Metabolic Potential. In: Ryu, CM., Weisskopf, L., Piechulla, B. (eds) Bacterial Volatile Compounds as Mediators of Airborne Interactions. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7293-7_1

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