The microbial ecology of estuarine ecosystems

BC Crump, JL Bowen - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Human civilization relies on estuaries, and many estuarine ecosystem services are provided
by microbial communities. These services include high rates of primary production that …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial transformations by sulfur bacteria can recover value from phosphogypsum: A global problem and a possible solution

A Bounaga, A Alsanea, K Lyamlouli, C Zhou… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rising global population and affluence are increasing demands for food production and the
phosphorus (P) fertilizers needed to grow that food. Essential are new approaches for …

Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction

S Neukirchen, IAC Pereira, FL Sousa - The ISME Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Microbial dissimilatory sulfur metabolism utilizing dissimilatory sulfite reductases (Dsr)
influenced the biochemical sulfur cycle during Earth's history and the Dsr pathway is thought …

Evidence for nontraditional mcr-containing archaea contributing to biological methanogenesis in geothermal springs

J Wang, YN Qu, PN Evans, Q Guo, F Zhou, M Nie… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Recent discoveries of methyl-coenzyme M reductase–encoding genes (mcr) in uncultured
archaea beyond traditional euryarchaeotal methanogens have reshaped our view of …

Insight into microbial functional genes' role in geochemical distribution and cycling of uranium: The evidence from covering soils of uranium tailings dam

W Yuan, J She, J Liu, Q Zhang, X Wei, L Huang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
There exists a research gap on microbial functional genes' role in U geochemical behavior
and cycling in U contaminated soils, which has been poorly understood. Herein, 16S rRNA …

The DsrD functional marker protein is an allosteric activator of the DsrAB dissimilatory sulfite reductase

D Ferreira, ACC Barbosa, GP Oliveira… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Dissimilatory sulfur metabolism was recently shown to be much more widespread among
bacteria and archaea than previously believed. One of the key pathways involved is the dsr …

Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes

R Marasco, M Fusi, C Coscolín, A Barozzi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Microbial communities respond to temperature with physiological adaptation and
compositional turnover. Whether thermal selection of enzymes explains marine microbiome …

DiSCo: a sequence-based type-specific predictor of Dsr-dependent dissimilatory sulphur metabolism in microbial data

S Neukirchen, FL Sousa - Microbial Genomics, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Current methods in comparative genomic analyses for metabolic potential prediction of
proteins involved in, or associated with the Dsr (dissimilatory sulphite reductase)-dependent …

Generation and physiology of hydrogen sulfide and reactive sulfur species in bacteria

S Han, Y Li, H Gao - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sulfur is not only one of the most abundant elements on the Earth, but it is also essential to
all living organisms. As life likely began and evolved in a hydrogen sulfide (H2S)-rich …

Geochemical and photochemical constraints on S [IV] concentrations in natural waters on prebiotic Earth

S Ranjan, K Abdelazim, GG Lozano, S Mandal… - AGU …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aqueous S IV species (HSO 3− HSO_3^-, SO 3 2− SO_3^2-) derived from
volcanogenic atmospheric SO2 are important to planetary habitability through their roles in …