Structure and mechanism of respiratory III–IV supercomplexes in bioenergetic membranes

P Brzezinski, A Moe, P Adelroth - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In the final steps of energy conservation in aerobic organisms, free energy from electron
transfer through the respiratory chain is transduced into a proton electrochemical gradient …

Microalgae fuel cell for wastewater treatment: Recent advances and challenges

KK Jaiswal, V Kumar, MS Vlaskin, N Sharma… - Journal of Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Electricity generation from wastewater using a microalgae-based microbial fuel cell (MFC)
has captured a lot of attention from researchers these days. Microalgae-microbial fuel cell (m …

Diverse Asgard archaea including the novel phylum Gerdarchaeota participate in organic matter degradation

M Cai, Y Liu, X Yin, Z Zhou, MW Friedrich… - Science China Life …, 2020 - Springer
Asgard is an archaeal superphylum that might hold the key to understand the origin of
eukaryotes, but its diversity and ecological roles remain poorly understood. Here, we …

Mechanisms of energy transduction by charge translocating membrane proteins

F Calisto, FM Sousa, FV Sena, PN Refojo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Life relies on the constant exchange of different forms of energy, ie, on energy transduction.
Therefore, organisms have evolved in a way to be able to harvest the energy made …

Mitochondrial trafficking and processing of telomerase RNA TERC

Y Cheng, P Liu, Q Zheng, G Gao, J Yuan, P Wang… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Mitochondrial dysfunctions play major roles in many diseases. However, how mitochondrial
stresses are relayed to downstream responses remains unclear. Here we show that the RNA …

Evolution of quinol oxidation within the heme‑copper oxidoreductase superfamily

R Murali, J Hemp, RB Gennis - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2022 - Elsevier
The heme‑copper oxidoreductase (HCO) superfamily is a large superfamily of terminal
respiratory enzymes that are widely distributed across the three domains of life. The …

The two-way relationship between calcium and metabolism in cancer

C Dejos, D Gkika, AR Cantelmo - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Calcium ion (Ca2+) signaling is critical to many physiological processes, and its kinetics and
subcellular localization are tightly regulated in all cell types. All Ca2+ flux perturbations …

The PEP-pyruvate-oxaloacetate node: variation at the heart of metabolism

JG Koendjbiharie, R Van Kranenburg… - FEMS microbiology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
At the junction between the glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid cycle—as well as various
other metabolic pathways—lies the phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP)-pyruvate-oxaloacetate …

CO2-Fixation Strategies in Energy Extremophiles: What Can We Learn From Acetogens?

ON Lemaire, M Jespersen, T Wagner - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Domestication of CO2-fixation became a worldwide priority enhanced by the will to convert
this greenhouse gas into fuels and valuable chemicals. Because of its high stability, CO2 …

Dynamic quinone repertoire accompanied the diversification of energy metabolism in Pseudomonadota

SC Chobert, M Roger-Margueritat, L Flandrin… - The ISME …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
It is currently unclear how Pseudomonadota, a phylum that originated around the time of the
Great Oxidation Event, became one of the most abundant and diverse bacterial phyla on …