{"id":228990,"date":"2026-01-14T01:29:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cyanobacteria-can-utilize-toxic-guanidine-as-a-nitrogen-source"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:29:02","slug":"cyanobacteria-can-utilize-toxic-guanidine-as-a-nitrogen-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cyanobacteria-can-utilize-toxic-guanidine-as-a-nitrogen-source","title":{"rendered":"Cyanobacteria can utilize toxic guanidine as a nitrogen source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyanobacteria-can-utilize-toxic-guanidine-as-a-nitrogen-source.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guanidine is an organic compound primarily used as a denaturing reagent to disrupt the structures of proteins and nucleic acids. Together with partner institutions, scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have demonstrated that cyanobacteria, which play a central role in global biogeochemical cycles, use guanidine as a nitrogen source.<\/p>\n<p>The results were recently <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2519335122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>. The researchers shed light on the underlying mechanisms and the potential for a new tool for sustainable biotechnological applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guanidine is an organic compound primarily used as a denaturing reagent to disrupt the structures of proteins and nucleic acids. Together with partner institutions, scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have demonstrated that cyanobacteria, which play a central role in global biogeochemical cycles, use guanidine as a nitrogen source. The results were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}