Electromicrobiology: the ecophysiology of phylogenetically diverse electroactive microorganisms

DR Lovley, DE Holmes - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Electroactive microorganisms markedly affect many environments in which they establish
outer-surface electrical contacts with other cells and minerals or reduce soluble extracellular …

Raman microspectroscopy for microbiology

KS Lee, Z Landry, FC Pereira, M Wagner… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Raman microspectroscopy offers microbiologists a rapid and non-destructive technique to
assess the chemical composition of individual live microorganisms in near real time. In this …

The integration of bio-catalysis and electrocatalysis to produce fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide

X Tan, J Nielsen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The dependence on fossil fuels has caused excessive emissions of greenhouse gases
(GHGs), leading to climate changes and global warming. Even though the expansion of …

Next-generation physiology approaches to study microbiome function at single cell level

R Hatzenpichler, V Krukenberg, RL Spietz… - Nature Reviews …, 2020‏ - nature.com
The function of cells in their native habitat often cannot be reliably predicted from genomic
data or from physiology studies of isolates. Traditional experimental approaches to study the …

[PDF][PDF] The soil crisis: the need to treat as a global health problem and the pivotal role of microbes in prophylaxis and therapy

K Timmis, JL Ramos - Microbial Biotechnology, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Soil provides a multitude of services that are essential to a healthily functioning biosphere
and continuity of the human race, such as feeding the growing human population and the …

Global diversity and inferred ecophysiology of microorganisms with the potential for dissimilatory sulfate/sulfite reduction

M Diao, S Dyksma, E Koeksoy, DK Ngugi… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Sulfate/sulfite-reducing microorganisms (SRM) are ubiquitous in nature, driving the global
sulfur cycle. A hallmark of SRM is the dissimilatory sulfite reductase encoded by the genes …

Cable bacteria with electric connection to oxygen attract flocks of diverse bacteria

JJ Bjerg, JJM Lustermans, IPG Marshall… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Cable bacteria are centimeter-long filamentous bacteria that conduct electrons via internal
wires, thus coupling sulfide oxidation in deeper, anoxic sediment with oxygen reduction in …

Oxygen respiration and polysaccharide degradation by a sulfate-reducing acidobacterium

S Dyksma, M Pester - Nature communications, 2023‏ - nature.com
Sulfate-reducing microorganisms represent a globally important link between the sulfur and
carbon cycles. Recent metagenomic surveys expanded the diversity of microorganisms …

Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction

S Neukirchen, IAC Pereira, FL Sousa - The ISME Journal, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Microbial dissimilatory sulfur metabolism utilizing dissimilatory sulfite reductases (Dsr)
influenced the biochemical sulfur cycle during Earth's history and the Dsr pathway is thought …

Engineering wired life: synthetic biology for electroactive bacteria

LJ Bird, BB Kundu, T Tschirhart, AD Corts… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Electroactive bacteria produce or consume electrical current by moving electrons to and
from extracellular acceptors and donors. This specialized process, known as extracellular …