The diversity of molecular mechanisms of carbonate biomineralization by bacteria

S Görgen, K Benzerara, F Skouri-Panet, M Gugger… - Discover …, 2021 - Springer
Although biomineralization of CaCO 3 is widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, the molecular
mechanisms involved in this process remain less known than those used by Eukaryotes. A …

Benefits at the nanoscale: a review of nanoparticle‐enabled processes favouring microbial growth and functionality

M Mansor, J Xu - Environmental Microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticles are ubiquitous and co‐occur with microbial life in every environment on Earth.
Interactions between microbes and nanoparticles impact the biogeochemical cycles via …

[HTML][HTML] Why do microbes make minerals?

J Cosmidis, K Benzerara - Comptes …, 2022 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé Prokaryotes have been sha** the surface of the Earth and impacting
geochemical cycles for the past four billion years. Biomineralization, the capacity to form …

Intracellular amorphous Ca-carbonate and magnetite biomineralization by a magnetotactic bacterium affiliated to the Alphaproteobacteria

CL Monteil, K Benzerara, N Menguy… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria synthesize a wide range of intracellular submicrometer-sized inorganic precipitates
of diverse chemical compositions and structures, called biominerals. Their occurrences …

Calcium carbonate precipitation by Bacillus and Sporosarcina strains isolated from concrete and analysis of the bacterial community of concrete

HJ Kim, HJ Eom, C Park, J Jung, B Shin… - … of Microbiology and …, 2016 - koreascience.kr
Microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (CCP) is a long-standing but re-
emerging environmental engineering process for production of self-healing concrete …

Biomineralization patterns of intracellular carbonatogenesis in cyanobacteria: molecular hypotheses

J Li, I Margaret Oliver, N Cam, T Boudier, M Blondeau… - Minerals, 2016 - mdpi.com
The recent discovery of intracellular carbonatogenesis in several cyanobacteria species has
challenged the traditional view that this process was extracellular and not controlled …

The gammaproteobacterium Achromatium forms intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate and not (crystalline) calcite

K Benzerara, R Bolzoni, C Monteil, O Beyssac… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Achromatium is a long known uncultured giant gammaproteobacterium forming intracellular
CaCO3 that impacts C and S geochemical cycles functioning in some anoxic sediments and …

Will tomorrow's mineral materials be grown?

J Cosmidis - Microbial Biotechnology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biomineralization, the capacity to form minerals, has evolved in a great diversity of bacterial
lineages as an adaptation to different environmental conditions and biological functions …

Evidence of high Ca uptake by cyanobacteria forming intracellular CaCO3 and impact on their growth

A De Wever, K Benzerara, M Coutaud, G Caumes… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Several species of cyanobacteria biomineralizing intracellular amorphous calcium
carbonates (ACC) were recently discovered. However, the mechanisms involved in this …

Fluorescence Microscopy Study of the Intracellular Sulfur Globule Protein SgpD in the Purple Sulfur Bacterium Allochromatium vinosum

C Kümpel, F Grein, C Dahl - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
When oxidizing reduced sulfur compounds, the phototrophic sulfur bacterium
Allochromatium vinosum forms spectacular sulfur globules as obligatory intracellular–but …