Adaptive genetic traits in pelagic freshwater microbes

MC Chiriac, M Haber… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Pelagic microbes have adopted distinct strategies to inhabit the pelagial of lakes and
oceans and can be broadly categorized in two groups: free‐living, specialized oligotrophs …

Current trends in methylotrophy

L Chistoserdova, MG Kalyuzhnaya - Trends in Microbiology, 2018‏ - cell.com
Methylotrophy is a field of study dealing with microorganisms capable of utilization of
compounds devoid of carbon–carbon bonds (C1 compounds). In this review, we highlight …

Microdiversification in genome-streamlined ubiquitous freshwater Actinobacteria

SM Neuenschwander, R Ghai, J Pernthaler… - The ISME …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Actinobacteria of the acI lineage are the most abundant microbes in freshwater systems, but
there are so far no pure living cultures of these organisms, possibly because of metabolic …

Evolution in action: habitat transition from sediment to the pelagial leads to genome streamlining in Methylophilaceae

MM Salcher, D Schaefle, M Kaspar… - The ISME …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
The most abundant aquatic microbes are small in cell and genome size. Genome-
streamlining theory predicts gene loss caused by evolutionary selection driven by …

Adaptability of a caproate-producing bacterium contributes to its dominance in an anaerobic fermentation system

H Wang, Y Gu, W Zhou, D Zhao, Z Qiao… - Applied and …, 2021‏ - journals.asm.org
The transformation of diverse feedstocks into medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) by mixed
cultures is a promising biorefinery route because of the high value of MCFAs. A particular …

Lanthanide-dependent methanol dehydrogenases of XoxF4 and XoxF5 clades are differentially distributed among methylotrophic bacteria and they reveal different …

J Huang, Z Yu, L Chistoserdova - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Lanthanide-dependent alcohol dehydrogenases have recently emerged as environmentally
important enzymes, most prominently represented in methylotrophic bacteria. The diversity …

Genomes of the “Candidatus Actinomarinales” Order: Highly Streamlined Marine Epipelagic Actinobacteria

M López-Pérez, JM Haro-Moreno, J Iranzo… - Msystems, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT “Candidatus Actinomarinales” was defined as a subclass of exclusively marine
Actinobacteria with small cells and genomes. We have collected all the available genomes …

Marine-freshwater prokaryotic transitions require extensive changes in the predicted proteome

PJ Cabello-Yeves, F Rodriguez-Valera - Microbiome, 2019‏ - Springer
Background The adaptation of a marine prokaryote to live in freshwater environments or vice
versa is generally believed to be an unusual and evolutionary demanding process …

Emerging role of rare earth elements in biomolecular functions

W Yang, K Wu, H Chen, J Huang, Z Yu - The ISME Journal, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
The importance of rare earth elements is increasingly recognized due to the increased
demand for their mining and separation. This demand is driving research on the biology of …

New Methyloceanibacter diversity from North Sea sediments includes methanotroph containing solely the soluble methane monooxygenase

B Vekeman, FM Kerckhof, G Cremers… - Environmental …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Marine methylotrophs play a key role in the global carbon cycle by metabolizing reduced
one‐carbon compounds that are found in high concentrations in marine environments …