[HTML][HTML] Anaerobic biodegradation of (emerging) organic contaminants in the aquatic environment

AK Ghattas, F Fischer, A Wick, TA Ternes - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Although strictly anaerobic conditions prevail in several environmental compartments, up to
now, biodegradation studies with emerging organic contaminants (EOCs), such as …

Rethinking the ancient sulfur cycle

DA Fike, AS Bradley, CV Rose - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The sulfur biogeochemical cycle integrates the metabolic activity of multiple microbial
pathways (eg, sulfate reduction, disproportionation, and sulfide oxidation) along with abiotic …

Phylogenetically and catabolically diverse diazotrophs reside in deep-sea cold seep sediments

X Dong, C Zhang, Y Peng, HX Zhang, LD Shi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microbially mediated nitrogen cycling in carbon-dominated cold seep environments remains
poorly understood. So far anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME-2) and their sulfate …

Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups

MV Langwig, V De Anda, N Dombrowski… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Deltaproteobacteria, now proposed to be the phyla Desulfobacterota, Myxococcota, and
SAR324, are ubiquitous in marine environments and play essential roles in global carbon …

Deep sea sediments associated with cold seeps are a subsurface reservoir of viral diversity

Z Li, D Pan, G Wei, W Pi, C Zhang, JH Wang… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
In marine ecosystems, viruses exert control on the composition and metabolism of microbial
communities, influencing overall biogeochemical cycling. Deep sea sediments associated …

Expansive microbial metabolic versatility and biodiversity in dynamic Guaymas Basin hydrothermal sediments

N Dombrowski, AP Teske, BJ Baker - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Microbes in Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California) hydrothermal sediments thrive on
hydrocarbons and sulfur and experience steep, fluctuating temperature and chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Anaerobic microbial degradation of hydrocarbons: from enzymatic reactions to the environment

R Rabus, M Boll, J Heider, RU Meckenstock… - Journal of molecular …, 2016 - karger.com
Hydrocarbons are abundant in anoxic environments and pose biochemical challenges to
their anaerobic degradation by microorganisms. Within the framework of the Priority …

The ecology and biotechnology of sulphate-reducing bacteria

G Muyzer, AJM Stams - Nature reviews microbiology, 2008 - nature.com
Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are anaerobic microorganisms that use sulphate as a
terminal electron acceptor in, for example, the degradation of organic compounds. They are …

Thermophilic archaea activate butane via alkyl-coenzyme M formation

R Laso-Pérez, G Wegener, K Knittel, F Widdel… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The anaerobic formation and oxidation of methane involve unique enzymatic mechanisms
and cofactors, all of which are believed to be specific for C1-compounds. Here we show that …

Carbon and hydrogen isotopes of methane, ethane, and propane: A review of genetic identification of natural gas

Q Liu, X Wu, X Wang, Z **, D Zhu, Q Meng… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The genetic identification of different types of natural gas is notably important for assessment
of its sources and exploration potential. The chemical and isotopic (C and H, in particular) …