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 …

An evolving view on biogeochemical cycling of iron

A Kappler, C Bryce, M Mansor, U Lueder… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biogeochemical cycling of iron is crucial to many environmental processes, such as ocean
productivity, carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and the fate of nutrients, toxic …

The microbial nitrogen-cycling network

MMM Kuypers, HK Marchant, B Kartal - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018‏ - nature.com
Nitrogen is an essential component of all living organisms and the main nutrient limiting life
on our planet. By far, the largest inventory of freely accessible nitrogen is atmospheric …

Methanotrophs: discoveries, environmental relevance, and a perspective on current and future applications

S Guerrero-Cruz, A Vaksmaa, MA Horn… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Methane is the final product of the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter. The
conversion of organic matter to methane (methanogenesis) as a mechanism for energy …

Diversity and evolution of methane-related pathways in archaea

PS Garcia, S Gribaldo, G Borrel - Annual Review of Microbiology, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Methane is one of the most important greenhouse gases on Earth and holds an important
place in the global carbon cycle. Archaea are the only organisms that use methanogenesis …

An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea

PN Evans, JA Boyd, AO Leu, BJ Woodcroft… - Nature Reviews …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Methane is a key compound in the global carbon cycle that influences both nutrient cycling
and the Earth's climate. A limited number of microorganisms control the flux of biologically …

Methane feedbacks to the global climate system in a warmer world

JF Dean, JJ Middelburg, T Röckmann… - Reviews of …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Methane (CH4) is produced in many natural systems that are vulnerable to change under a
warming climate, yet current CH4 budgets, as well as future shifts in CH4 emissions, have …

Syntrophy goes electric: direct interspecies electron transfer

DR Lovley - Annual review of microbiology, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) has biogeochemical significance, and practical
applications that rely on DIET or DIET-based aspects of microbial physiology are growing …

Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae

AO Leu, C Cai, SJ McIlroy, G Southam… - The ISME …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is a major biological process that reduces global
methane emission to the atmosphere. Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) mediate …

Sustainable nitrogen removal in anammox-mediated systems: Microbial metabolic pathways, operational conditions and mathematical modelling

HE Al-Hazmi, X Lu, D Grubba, J Majtacz… - Science of The Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Anammox-mediated systems have attracted considerable attention as alternative cost-
effective technologies for sustainable nitrogen (N) removal from wastewater. This review …