Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for assessment of microbial water quality: current progress, challenges, and future opportunities

BF Tan, C Ng, JP Nshimyimana, LL Loh… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Water quality is an emergent property of a complex system comprised of interacting
microbial populations and introduced microbial and chemical contaminants. Studies …

The multi-omics promise in context: from sequence to microbial isolate

J Gutleben, M Chaib De Mares… - Critical reviews in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The numbers and diversity of microbes in ecosystems within and around us is unmatched,
yet most of these microorganisms remain recalcitrant to in vitro cultivation. Various high …

Improve niche colonization and microbial interactions for organohalide-respiring-bacteria-mediated remediation of chloroethene-contaminated sites

R Wu, R Shen, Z Liang, S Zheng, Y Yang… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Organohalide-respiring bacteria (OHRB)-mediated reductive dehalogenation is promising in
in situ bioremediation of chloroethene-contaminated sites. The bioremediation efficiency of …

Overview of organohalide-respiring bacteria and a proposal for a classification system for reductive dehalogenases

LA Hug, F Maphosa, D Leys… - … of the Royal …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Organohalide respiration is an anaerobic bacterial respiratory process that uses
halogenated hydrocarbons as terminal electron acceptors during electron transport-based …

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 …

Interactions in the microbiome: communities of organisms and communities of genes

E Boon, CJ Meehan, C Whidden… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
A central challenge in microbial community ecology is the delineation of appropriate units of
biodiversity, which can be taxonomic, phylogenetic, or functional in nature. The term …

Grape pomace compost harbors organohalide-respiring Dehalogenimonas species with novel reductive dehalogenase genes

Y Yang, SA Higgins, J Yan, B Şimşir… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Organohalide-respiring bacteria have key roles in the natural chlorine cycle; however, most
of the current knowledge is based on cultures from contaminated environments. We …

Distribution of reactive oxygen species defense mechanisms across domain bacteria

LA Johnson, LA Hug - Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Bacteria are the most diverse and numerous organisms on the planet, inhabiting
environments from the deep subsurface to particles in clouds. Across this range of …

Methodological advances to study contaminant biotransformation: new prospects for understanding and reducing environmental persistence?

K Fenner, M Elsner, T Lueders, MS McLachlan… - ACS Es&t …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Complex microbial communities in environmental systems play a key role in the
detoxification of chemical contaminants by transforming them into less active metabolites or …

Potential Role of Methanogens in Microbial Reductive Dechlorination of Organic Chlorinated Pollutants In Situ

J Yuan, S Li, J Cheng, C Guo, C Shen… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Previous studies often attribute microbial reductive dechlorination to organohalide-respiring
bacteria (OHRB) or cometabolic dechlorination bacteria (CORB). Even though …