DNRA: a short-circuit in biological N-cycling to conserve nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems

CB Pandey, U Kumar, M Kaviraj, KJ Minick… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) in soils-a newly
appreciated pathway of nitrogen (N) cycling in the terrestrial ecosystems. The reduction of …

Processes and microorganisms involved in the marine nitrogen cycle: knowledge and gaps

S Pajares, R Ramos - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Nitrogen (N) is a key element for life in the oceans. It controls primary productivity in many
parts of the global ocean, consequently playing a crucial role in the uptake of atmospheric …

The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters

DM van Vliet, FAB von Meijenfeldt… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dysoxic marine waters (DMW,< 1 μM oxygen) are currently expanding in volume in the
oceans, which has biogeochemical, ecological and societal consequences on a global …

Effect of sulfur sources on the competition between denitrification and DNRA

S Li, Z Jiang, G Ji - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
The fate of nitrogen is controlled by the competition between nitrate reduction pathways.
Denitrification removes nitrogen in the system to the atmosphere, whereas dissimilatory …

Genomic remnants of ancestral methanogenesis and hydrogenotrophy in Archaea drive anaerobic carbon cycling

PS Adam, GE Kolyfetis, TLV Bornemann… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Anaerobic methane metabolism is among the hallmarks of Archaea, originating very early in
their evolution. Here, we show that the ancestor of methane metabolizers was an autotrophic …

Microbial carbon, sulfur, iron, and nitrogen cycling linked to the potential remediation of a meromictic acidic pit lake

D Ayala-Muñoz, JL Macalady… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cueva de la Mora is a permanently stratified acidic pit lake and a model system for extreme
acid mine drainage (AMD) studies. Using a combination of amplicon sequencing …

Long-term sulfide input enhances chemoautotrophic denitrification rather than DNRA in freshwater lake sediments

Y Pang, J Wang, S Li, G Ji - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Partitioning between nitrate reduction pathways, denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate
reduction to ammonium (DNRA) determines the fate of nitrate removal and thus it is of great …

Review of the mechanisms involved in dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium and the efficacies of these mechanisms in the environment

C Wang, T He, M Zhang, C Zheng, L Yang… - Environmental Pollution, 2024 - Elsevier
Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) is currently of great interest because it
is an important method for recovering nitrogen from wastewater and offers many …

Disproportionation of inorganic sulfur compounds by a novel autotrophic bacterium belonging to Nitrospirota

K Umezawa, H Kojima, Y Kato, M Fukui - Systematic and Applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
The phylum Nitrospirota (previously known as Nitrospirae or Nitrospira) currently
encompasses a limited number of bacterial species with validly published names, including …

Disguised as a Sulfate Reducer: Growth of the Deltaproteobacterium Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus by Sulfide Oxidation with Nitrate

C Thorup, A Schramm, AJ Findlay, KW Finster… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
This study demonstrates that the deltaproteobacterium Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus can grow
chemolithotrophically by coupling sulfide oxidation to the dissimilatory reduction of nitrate …