The influence of fluorine on the disturbances of homeostasis in the central nervous system

K Dec, A Łukomska, D Maciejewska… - … Trace Element Research, 2017 - Springer
Fluorides occur naturally in the environment, the daily exposure of human organism to
fluorine mainly depends on the intake of this element with drinking water and it is connected …

Mechanisms for generating low potential electrons across the metabolic diversity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria

AB Alleman, JW Peters - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
The availability of fixed nitrogen is a limiting factor in the net primary production of all
ecosystems. Diazotrophs overcome this limit through the conversion of atmospheric …

The Rnf complex is an energy-coupled transhydrogenase essential to reversibly link cellular NADH and ferredoxin pools in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii

L Westphal, A Wiechmann, J Baker… - Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Rnf complex is a respiratory enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of reduced ferredoxin
to the reduction of NAD+, and the negative free energy change of this reaction is used to …

Purification and structural characterization of the Na+-translocating ferredoxin: NAD+ reductase (Rnf) complex of Clostridium tetanomorphum

S Vitt, S Prinz, M Eisinger, U Ermler… - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Various microbial metabolisms use H+/Na+-translocating ferredoxin: NAD+ reductase (Rnf)
either to exergonically oxidize reduced ferredoxin by NAD+ for generating a transmembrane …

Structure of the V. cholerae Na+-pumping NADH:quinone oxidoreductase

J Steuber, G Vohl, MS Casutt, T Vorburger… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
NADH oxidation in the respiratory chain is coupled to ion translocation across the
membrane to build up an electrochemical gradient. The sodium-translocating NADH …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane-bound electron transport systems of an anammox bacterium: a complexome analysis

NM de Almeida, HJCT Wessels, RM de Graaf… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016 - Elsevier
Electron transport, or oxidative phosphorylation, is one of the hallmarks of life. To this end,
prokaryotes evolved a vast variety of protein complexes, only a small part of which have …

Targeting Type IV pili as an antivirulence strategy against invasive meningococcal disease

K Denis, M Le Bris, L Le Guennec, JP Barnier… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bacterial virulence factors are attractive targets for the development of therapeutics. Type IV
pili, which are associated with a remarkable array of properties including motility, the …

Phylogenomic analysis of Candidatus 'Izimaplasma' species: free-living representatives from a Tenericutes clade found in methane seeps

CT Skennerton, MF Haroon, A Briegel, J Shi… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Tenericutes are a unique class of bacteria that lack a cell wall and are typically parasites or
commensals of eukaryotic hosts. Environmental 16S rDNA surveys have identified a number …

Genome of a Novel Bacterium “Candidatus Jettenia ecosi” Reconstructed From the Metagenome of an Anammox Bioreactor

AV Mardanov, AV Beletsky, NV Ravin… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The microbial community of a laboratory-scale bioreactor based on the anammox process
was investigated by using metagenomic approaches and fluorescent in situ hybridization …

Respiratory protein interactions in Dehalobacter sp. strain 8M revealed through genomic and native proteomic analyses

JM Soder‐Walz, K Wasmund… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dehalobacter (Firmicutes) encompass obligate organohalide‐respiring bacteria used for
bioremediation of groundwater contaminated with halogenated organics. Various aspects of …