Soothsaying DOM: a current perspective on the future of oceanic dissolved organic carbon

S Wagner, F Schubotz, K Kaiser, C Hallmann… - Frontiers in marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The vast majority of freshly produced oceanic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is derived
from marine phytoplankton, then rapidly recycled by heterotrophic microbes. A small fraction …

Analytical and computational advances, opportunities, and challenges in marine organic biogeochemistry in an era of “omics”

AD Steen, S Kusch, HA Abdulla, N Cakić… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Advances in sampling tools, analytical methods, and data handling capabilities have been
fundamental to the growth of marine organic biogeochemistry over the past four decades …

Methyl-compound use and slow growth characterize microbial life in 2-km-deep subseafloor coal and shale beds

E Trembath-Reichert, Y Morono, A Ijiri… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The past decade of scientific ocean drilling has revealed seemingly ubiquitous, slow-
growing microbial life within a range of deep biosphere habitats. Integrated Ocean Drilling …

Unusual butane-and pentanetriol-based tetraether lipids in Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis, a representative of the seventh order of methanogens

KW Becker, FJ Elling, MY Yoshinaga… - Applied and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A new clade of archaea has recently been proposed to constitute the seventh
methanogenic order, the Methanomassiliicoccales, which is related to the …

Heat stress dictates microbial lipid composition along a thermal gradient in marine sediments

M Sollich, MY Yoshinaga, S Häusler, RE Price… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Temperature exerts a first-order control on microbial populations, which constantly adjust the
fluidity and permeability of their cell membrane lipids to minimize loss of energy by ion …

[HTML][HTML] Controls on the hydrogen isotope composition of tetraether lipids in an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon

WD Leavitt, SH Kopf, Y Weber, B Chiu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
The stable hydrogen isotope composition of persistent biomolecules is used as a
palaeohydrological proxy. While much previous work has focused on plant leaf wax-derived …

Tracking activity and function of microorganisms by stable isotope probing of membrane lipids

G Wegener, MY Kellermann, M Elvert - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Tracking activity of microorganisms using lipid stable isotope probing.•Novel
position-specific labeling approaches to trace lipid production pathways.•Revealing total …

Functionalized membrane domains: an ancestral feature of Archaea?

M Tourte, P Schaeffer, V Grossi, PM Oger - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria and Eukarya organize their plasma membrane spatially into domains of distinct
functions. Due to the uniqueness of their lipids, membrane functionalization in Archaea …

Organic biogeochemistry in the oxygen-deficient ocean: a review

SG Wakeham - Organic Geochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Oceanic oxygen-deficient zones (ODZs) encompass open ocean and coastal oxygen
minimum zones and euxinic marine basins. A primary goal of this review is to demonstrate …

CO2 conversion to methane and biomass in obligate methylotrophic methanogens in marine sediments

X Yin, W Wu, M Maeke, T Richter-Heitmann… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Methyl substrates are important compounds for methanogenesis in marine sediments but
diversity and carbon utilization by methylotrophic methanogenic archaea have not been …