Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems

AE Zimmerman, C Howard-Varona… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Ecosystems are controlled by 'bottom-up'(resources) and 'top-down'(predation) forces. Viral
infection is now recognized as a ubiquitous top-down control of microbial growth across …

Calvin–Benson cycle regulation is getting complex

L Gurrieri, S Fermani, M Zaffagnini, F Sparla… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Oxygenic phototrophs use the Calvin–Benson cycle to fix CO 2 during photosynthesis. In the
dark, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and phosphoribulokinase …

Plastic leachates impair growth and oxygen production in Prochlorococcus, the ocean's most abundant photosynthetic bacteria

SG Tetu, I Sarker, V Schrameyer, R Pickford… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Plastic pollution is a global threat to marine ecosystems. Plastic litter can leach a variety of
substances into marine environments; however, virtually nothing is known regarding how …

Auxiliary metabolic gene functions in pelagic and benthic viruses of the Baltic Sea

B Heyerhoff, B Engelen, C Bunse - Frontiers in microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine microbial communities are facing various ecosystem fluctuations (eg, temperature,
organic matter concentration, salinity, or redox regimes) and thus have to be highly adaptive …

A hard day's night: cyanobacteria in diel cycles

DG Welkie, BE Rubin, S Diamond, RD Hood… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that are influential in global geochemistry and
are promising candidates for industrial applications. Because the livelihood of cyanobacteria …

Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle

L Cai, H Li, J Deng, R Zhou, Q Zeng - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
The unicellular picocyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the most abundant photoautotroph
and contributes substantially to global CO 2 fixation. In the vast euphotic zones of the open …

Hostile takeover: how viruses reprogram prokaryotic metabolism

TB Jacobson, MM Callaghan… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
To reproduce, prokaryotic viruses must hijack the cellular machinery of their hosts and
redirect it toward the production of viral particles. While takeover of the host replication and …

Energy limitation of cyanophage development: implications for marine carbon cycling

RJ Puxty, DJ Evans, AD Millard, DJ Scanlan - The ISME Journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Marine cyanobacteria are responsible for~ 25% of the fixed carbon that enters the ocean
biosphere. It is thought that abundant co-occurring viruses play an important role in …

Multiple mechanisms drive phage infection efficiency in nearly identical hosts

C Howard-Varona, KR Hargreaves… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Phage–host interactions are critical to ecology, evolution, and biotechnology. Central to
those is infection efficiency, which remains poorly understood, particularly in nature. Here …

Lysogeny in the oceans: lessons from cultivated model systems and a reanalysis of its prevalence

MJ Tuttle, A Buchan - Environmental microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the oceans, viruses that infect bacteria (phages) influence a variety of microbially
mediated processes that drive global biogeochemical cycles. The nature of their influence is …