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Biochemical Treasures of Microbial Origins
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  • 1. Secreted microbial sugar polymers forming biofilms
  • 2. Polysaccharide polymer of glucose in fungal cell walls
  • 4. Signaling threshold molecule regulating microbial communities
  • 6. Macromolecule formed by long chains of sugar units
  • 7. Anaerobic pathway yielding organic acids or alcohols
  • 12. Microbially-derived amphipathic compound reducing tension
  • 14. Non-protein catalyst cofactor, often vitamin-derived
  • 16. Product of bacterial fermentation, acid in muscles
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  • 3. Long fatty acid chains in acid-fast bacterial walls
  • 5. Endotoxin component of gram-negative outer membranes
  • 8. Molecule scavenging iron for microbial uptake
  • 9. Archaea producing methane gas in anaerobic habitats
  • 10. Enzyme complex fixing atmospheric nitrogen biologically
  • 11. Vitamin B1, essential cofactor biosynthesized by microbes
  • 13. Structural polymer unique to bacterial cell walls
  • 15. Vitamin B2, electron carrier precursor from microbes
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