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Explore the free collection of MiniReviews on Physiology and Biochemistry from FEMS Microbiology Letters and FEMS Yeast Research. Topics covered include carboxysomes, microbial catabolism of sterols, FIC proteins, and more.

Neisserial Surface Lipoproteins: Structure, Function and Biogenesis
Yogesh Hooda, Hyejin E. Shin, Thomas J. Bateman, Trevor F. Moraes
DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftx010

Carboxysomes: Metabolic Modules for CO₂ Fixation
Aiko Turmo, C. Raul Gonzalez-Esquer, Cheryl A. Kerfeld
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx176

Microbial catabolism of sterols: focus on the enzymes that transform the sterol 3ß-hydroxy-5-en into 3-keto-4-en
Joseph Kreit
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx007

Carbon recycling by cyanobacteria: improving CO2-fixation through chemical production
Angela Zhang, Austin L. Carroll, Shota Atsumi
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx165

Photoinactivation of bacteria by endogenous photosensitizers and exposure to visible light of different wavelengths ? A review on existing data
M. Hessling, B. Spellerberg, K. Hoenes
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnw270

[PIN+]-ing Down the Mechanism of Prion Appearance
Tricia Serio 
DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foy026

Diversity and Complexity of flavodiiron NO/O2 reductases
Filipe Folgosa, Maria C Martins, Miguel Teixeira
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx267

Dynamic hydrogen-bond networks in bacterial protein secretion
Konstantina Karathanou, Ana-Nicoleta Bondar
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny124

The functional RNA cargo of bacterial membrane vesicles
Priscila Dauros-Singorenko, Cherie Blenkiron, Anthony Phillips, Simon Swift
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny023

The Tat Protein Transport System: Intriguing Questions and Conundrums
Shruthi Hamsanathan, Siegfried M Musser
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny123

Co-translational protein targeting in bacteria
Ruth Steinberg, Lara Knüpffer, Andrea Origi, Rossella Asti, Hans-Georg Koch 
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny095

Microbial nanowires and electroactive biofilms
Gemma Reguera
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy086

FIC proteins: from bacteria to humans and back again
Simon Veyron, Gérald Peyroche, Jacqueline Cherfils
DOI: 10.1093/femspd/fty012

Bacterial machineries for the assembly of membrane-embedded beta-barrel proteins
David Ranava, Anne Caumont-Sarcos, Cécile Albenne, Raffaele Ieva
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny087

Yeast mitochondria: An overview of mitochondrial biology and the potential of mitochondrial systems biology
Carl Malina, Christer Larsson, Jens Nielsen
DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foy040