Microbial sulfur metabolism and environmental implications

B Wu, F Liu, W Fang, T Yang, GH Chen, Z He… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sulfur as a macroelement plays an important role in biochemistry in both natural
environments and engineering biosystems, which can be further linked to other important …

How low can they go? Aerobic respiration by microorganisms under apparent anoxia

JS Berg, S Ahmerkamp, P Pjevac… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Oxygen (O2) is the ultimate oxidant on Earth and its respiration confers such an energetic
advantage that microorganisms have evolved the capacity to scavenge O2 down to …

Purple sulfur bacteria fix N2 via molybdenum-nitrogenase in a low molybdenum Proterozoic ocean analogue

M Philippi, K Kitzinger, JS Berg, B Tschitschko… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological N2 fixation was key to the expansion of life on early Earth. The N2-fixing
microorganisms and the nitrogenase type used in the Proterozoic are unknown, although it …

Active lithoautotrophic and methane-oxidizing microbial community in an anoxic, sub-zero, and hypersaline High Arctic spring

E Magnuson, I Altshuler… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Lost Hammer Spring, located in the High Arctic of Nunavut, Canada, is one of the
coldest and saltiest terrestrial springs discovered to date. It perennially discharges anoxic (< …

Genomic insights into the coupling of a Chlorella-like microeukaryote and sulfur bacteria in the chemocline of permanently stratified Lake Cadagno

JS Saini, M Manni, C Hassler, RN Cable… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Meromictic Lake Cadagno is a permanently stratified system with a persistent
microbial bloom within the oxic-anoxic boundary called the chemocline. The association …

Distinctive patterns of soil microbial community during forest ecosystem restoration in southwestern China

Y Zuo, X Liu, T Ma, Y Zeng, W Li, C **a… - Land Degradation & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms are essential in soil biogeochemical processes and vegetation
establishment. Nonetheless, investigating predictable patterns in the microbial structure …

Widespread occurrence of dissolved oxygen anomalies, aerobic microbes, and oxygen-producing metabolic pathways in apparently anoxic environments

SE Ruff, L Schwab, E Vidal… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Nearly all molecular oxygen (O2) on Earth is produced via oxygenic photosynthesis by
plants or photosynthetically active microorganisms. Light-independent O2 production, which …

Bacterial, phytoplankton, and viral distributions and their biogeochemical contexts in meromictic Lake Cadagno offer insights into the Proterozoic Ocean microbial loop

JS Saini, C Hassler, R Cable, M Fourquez, F Danza… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Lake Cadagno, a permanently stratified high-alpine lake with a persistent microbial bloom in
its chemocline, has long been considered a model for the low-oxygen, high-sulfide …

Sulphate reduction determines the long-term effect of iron amendments on phosphorus retention in lake sediments

L Heinrich, J Dietel, M Hupfer - Journal of Soils and Sediments, 2022 - Springer
Purpose This field study aimed to guide the planning of iron amendments for phosphorus
retention by investigating the long-term fate of iron added to two urban lakes (Plötzensee …

Flow-through stable isotope probing (Flow-SIP) minimizes cross-feeding in complex microbial communities

M Mooshammer, K Kitzinger, A Schintlmeister… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Stable isotope probing (SIP) is a key tool for identifying the microorganisms catalyzing the
turnover of specific substrates in the environment and to quantify their relative contributions …