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Karthik Anantharaman

Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Verified email at bact.wisc.edu
Cited by 10823

Biosynthetic capacity, metabolic variety and unusual biology in the CPR and DPANN radiations

CJ Castelle, CT Brown, K Anantharaman… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Candidate phyla radiation (CPR) bacteria and DPANN (an acronym of the names of the first
included phyla) archaea are massive radiations of organisms that are widely distributed …

Accurate and complete genomes from metagenomes

LX Chen, K Anantharaman, A Shaiber… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
Genomes are an integral component of the biological information about an organism; thus,
the more complete the genome, the more informative it is. Historically, bacterial and archaeal …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria

…, SG Acinas, RI Amann, K Anantharaman… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The assembly of single-amplified genomes (SAGs) and metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)
has led to a surge in genome-based discoveries of members affiliated with Archaea …

[HTML][HTML] A new view of the tree of life

LA Hug, BJ Baker, K Anantharaman, CT Brown… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The tree of life is one of the most important organizing principles in biology 1. Gene surveys
suggest the existence of an enormous number of branches 2, but even an approximation of …

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

…, L Juzokaite, E Vancaester, KW Seitz, K Anantharaman… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The origin and cellular complexity of eukaryotes represent a major enigma in biology.
Current data support scenarios in which an archaeal host cell and an alphaproteobacterial (…

[HTML][HTML] Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system

K Anantharaman, CT Brown, LA Hug, I Sharon… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The subterranean world hosts up to one-fifth of all biomass, including microbial communities
that drive transformations central to Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. However, little is known …

Glycogen storage capacity and de novo lipogenesis during massive carbohydrate overfeeding in man

…, Y Schutz, T Bessard, K Anantharaman… - The American journal of …, 1988 - Elsevier
The metabolic balance method was performed on three men to investigate the fate of large
excesses of carbohydrate. Glycogen stores, which were first depleted by diet (3 d, 8.35 +/- …

[HTML][HTML] VIBRANT: automated recovery, annotation and curation of microbial viruses, and evaluation of viral community function from genomic sequences

K Kieft, Z Zhou, K Anantharaman - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
… To display this, the TPR and FPR of both 1 k and 3 kb scaffolds were assessed (Additional
File 16: Figure S1A). For this analysis, VirSorter was evaluated using virome decontamination …

Caffeine and coffee: their influence on metabolic rate and substrate utilization in normal weight and obese individuals

…, P Pittet, K Anantharaman… - The American journal of …, 1980 - Elsevier
A series of four trials was carried out to investigate the effects of caffeine and coffee on the
metabolic rate and substrate utilization in normal weight and obese individuals. In the first trial …

New CRISPR–Cas systems from uncultivated microbes

…, LB Harrington, SC Strutt, AJ Probst, K Anantharaman… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide microbes with adaptive immunity by employing short DNA
sequences, termed spacers, that guide Cas proteins to cleave foreign DNA 1 , 2 . Class 2 …