Revisiting the precursors of the most abundant natural products on Earth: A look back at 30+ years of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) research and ahead to new …

S Kusch, D Rush - Organic Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review we look back on 30+ years of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) research within the
field of organic geochemistry. BHPs are ubiquitous, intact polar lipids in modern …

Cultivation and genomic characterization of novel and ubiquitous marine nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the Nitrospirales

AJ Mueller, A Daebeler, CW Herbold… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Nitrospirales, including the genus Nitrospira, are environmentally widespread
chemolithoautotrophic nitrite-oxidizing bacteria. These mostly uncultured microorganisms …

Distribution and carbon isotopic composition of diploptene from epiphytic bryophytes in Wuhan, central China

J Li, J Xue, BDA Naafs, Y Yang, H Yang, D Liu - Organic Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Diploptene is a ubiquitous hopanoid in the geosphere, synthesized by all hopanoid-
containing bacteria. Variations in the concentration and stable carbon isotopic composition …

Increases in the soil ammonia oxidizing phylotypes and their rechange due to long-term irrigation with wastewater

EJ Aguilar-Rangel, A Savin-Gámez… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Wastewater irrigation is a common practice for agricultural systems in arid and semiarid
zones, which can help to overcome water scarcity and contribute with nutrient inputs …

Characterization of HpnG as a Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylase in Bacteriohopanepolyol Biosynthesis

X Li, X Zhu, Y Zhong, W Zhang, F Chen… - Chinese Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary HpnG plays a crucial role in the production of ribosylhopane, a
key intermediate in the biosynthesis of bacteriohopanepolyol. Despite early extensive …

Bacteriohopanepolyols across the Black Sea redoxcline trace diverse bacterial metabolisms

S Kusch, SG Wakeham, J Sepúlveda - Organic Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Redox gradients in oceanic oxygen minimum zones are hotspots of diverse bacterial
populations and metabolisms. Here, we test whether bacteriohopanepolyols (BHPs), a suite …

Lipid biomarkers from microbial mats on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica: signatures for life in the cryosphere

TW Evans, MJ Kalambokidis, AD Jungblut… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Persistent cold temperatures, a paucity of nutrients, freeze-thaw cycles, and the strongly
seasonal light regime make Antarctica one of Earth's least hospitable surface environments …

The energy-efficient reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle drives carbon uptake and transfer to higher trophic levels within the Kueishantao shallow-water hydrothermal …

JM Maak, YS Lin, E Schefuß, RF Aepfler… - …, 2024 - egusphere.copernicus.org
Chemoautotrophic Campylobacteria utilize the reductive tricarboxylic acid (rTCA) cycle for
carbon uptake, a metabolic pathway that is more energy efficient and discriminates less …

Distributions of bacteriohopanepolyols in lakes and coastal lagoons of the Azores Archipelago

N Richter, EC Hopmans, D Mitrović… - Biogeosciences …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Bacteriohopanepolyols (BHPs) are a diverse class of lipids produced by bacteria across a
wide range of environments. In this study, we aim to further identify BHPs related to …

[HTML][HTML] Gas phase pyrolytic approach for stable isotope analysis of hopanoids lipids

AE Amariei - 2024 - theses.gla.ac.uk
Methanotrophs are known for their role in mitigating CH4 emissions, with aerobic
methanotrophs adapted to a wide range of environments. In oxic settings, they are able to …