Nitrite oxidation in wastewater treatment: microbial adaptation and suppression challenges

Z Su, T Liu, J Guo, M Zheng - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microbial nitrite oxidation is the primary pathway that generates nitrate in wastewater
treatment systems and can be performed by a variety of microbes: namely, nitrite-oxidizing …

A new perspective on microbes formerly known as nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

H Daims, S Lücker, M Wagner - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) catalyze the second step of nitrification, nitrite oxidation to
nitrate, which is an important process of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. NOB were …

Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese

M Daye, V Klepac-Ceraj, M Pajusalu, S Rowland… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Oxygenic photosynthesis supplies organic carbon to the modern biosphere, but it is
uncertain when this metabolism originated. It has previously been proposed, that …

Characterization of the First “Candidatus Nitrotoga” Isolate Reveals Metabolic Versatility and Separate Evolution of Widespread Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria

K Kitzinger, H Koch, S Lücker, CJ Sedlacek, C Herbold… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nitrification is a key process of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle and of biological
wastewater treatment. The second step, nitrite oxidation to nitrate, is catalyzed by …

[HTML][HTML] Structural and functional characterization of the intracellular filament-forming nitrite oxidoreductase multiprotein complex

TM Chicano, L Dietrich, NM de Almeida, M Akram… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nitrate is an abundant nutrient and electron acceptor throughout Earth's biosphere. Virtually
all nitrate in nature is produced by the oxidation of nitrite by the nitrite oxidoreductase (NXR) …

Expanded diversity and metabolic versatility of marine nitrite-oxidizing bacteria revealed by cultivation-and genomics-based approaches

SJ Park, AŞ Andrei, PA Bulzu… - Applied and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) are ubiquitous and abundant microorganisms that play key
roles in global nitrogen and carbon biogeochemical cycling. Despite recent advances in …

How did life survive Earth's great oxygenation?

WW Fischer, J Hemp, JS Valentine - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•The geological and biological records suggest that O 2 was not available and
biologically meaningful until relatively late in Earth history.•Early life evolved in an anoxic …

Achieving nitrogen and phosphorus removal at low C/N ratios without aeration through a novel phototrophic process

VCF Carvalho, M Kessler, JC Fradinho… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional wastewater treatment technologies for biological nutrient removal (BNR) are
highly dependent on aeration for oxygen supply, which represents a major operational cost …

Diversity of chlorophototrophic bacteria revealed in the omics era

V Thiel, M Tank, DA Bryant - Annual review of plant biology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Because of recent advances in omics methodologies, knowledge of chlorophototrophy (ie,
chlorophyll-based phototrophy) in bacteria has rapidly increased. Chlorophototrophs …

From manganese oxidation to water oxidation: assembly and evolution of the water-splitting complex in photosystem II

N Oliver, AP Avramov, DJ Nürnberg, H Dau… - Photosynthesis …, 2022 - Springer
The manganese cluster of photosystem II has been the focus of intense research aiming to
understand the mechanism of H2O-oxidation. Great effort has also been applied to …