Electrotrophy: other microbial species, iron, and electrodes as electron donors for microbial respirations

DR Lovley - Bioresource technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrotrophy, the growth of microbes on extracellular electron donors, drives important
biogeochemical cycles and has practical applications. Studies of Fe (II)-based electrotrophy …

Harnessing electrical-to-biochemical conversion for microbial synthesis

Z Fang, YJ Tang, MAG Koffas - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•A new metabolic model of electrical-to-biochemical conversion (E2BC) is
reviewed.•E2BC is a promising way to realize carbon negative green biomanufacturing.• …

Viruses participate in the organomineralization of travertines

M Słowakiewicz, E Perri, E Tagliasacchi, P Działak… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Travertines, which precipitate from high temperature water saturated with calcium carbonate,
are generally considered to be dominated by physico-chemical and microbial precipitates …

Extracellular electron uptake from a cathode by the lactic acid bacterium Lactiplantibacillus plantarum

S Tejedor-Sanz, S Li, BB Kundu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A subset of microorganisms that perform respiration can endogenously utilize insoluble
electron donors, such as Fe (II) or a cathode, in a process called extracellular electron …

Unraveling Fe (II)-oxidizing mechanisms in a facultative Fe (II) oxidizer, Sideroxydans lithotrophicus strain ES-1, via culturing, transcriptomics, and reverse …

N Zhou, JL Keffer, SW Polson… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 grows autotrophically either by Fe (II) oxidation or by
thiosulfate oxidation, in contrast to most other isolates of neutrophilic Fe (II)-oxidizing …

Biological Oxidation of Fe(II)-Bearing Smectite by Microaerophilic Iron Oxidizer Sideroxydans lithotrophicus Using Dual Mto and Cyc2 Iron Oxidation Pathways

N Zhou, RJ Kupper, JG Catalano… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fe (II) clays are common across many environments, making them a potentially significant
microbial substrate, yet clays are not well established as an electron donor. Therefore, we …

Putative novel hydrogen-and iron-oxidizing sheath-producing Zetaproteobacteria thrive at the Fåvne deep-sea hydrothermal vent field

P Hribovšek, E Olesin Denny, H Dahle, A Mall… - Msystems, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria are well known to colonize deep-sea hydrothermal vent
fields around the world where iron-rich fluids are discharged into oxic seawater. How inter …

The phylogeny of Acetobacteraceae: photosynthetic traits and deranged respiratory enzymes

M Degli Esposti, G Guerrero, MA Rogel… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
We present here a comprehensive phylogenomic analysis of Acetobacteraceae, a vast
group of alphaproteobacteria that has been widely studied for their economic importance …

Metagenomic features characterized with microbial iron oxidoreduction and mineral interaction in southwest Indian ridge

YW Zhong, P Zhou, H Cheng, YD Zhou… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR) is one of the typical representatives of
deep-sea ultraslow-spreading ridges, and has increasingly become a hot spot of studying …

Accelerated deterioration corrosion of X70 steel by oxidation acid-producing process catalyzed by Acinetobacter soli in oil-water environment

D Guo, Y Zhang, X Dong, X Liu, Y Pei, J Duan… - Bioelectrochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Deterioration corrosion occurs between the external surface of oil pipelines and aerobic oil-
degrading microorganisms in oil fields. Microorganisms with aerobic oil pollution …