The globally widespread genus Sulfurimonas: versatile energy metabolisms and adaptations to redox clines

Y Han, M Perner - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Sulfurimonas species are commonly isolated from sulfidic habitats and numerous 16S rRNA
sequences related to Sulfurimonas species have been identified in chemically distinct …

Shallow breathing: bacterial life at low O2

RL Morris, TM Schmidt - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2013 - nature.com
Competition for molecular oxygen (O2) among respiratory microorganisms is intense
because O2 is a potent electron acceptor. This competition leads to the formation of …

Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups

MV Langwig, V De Anda, N Dombrowski… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Deltaproteobacteria, now proposed to be the phyla Desulfobacterota, Myxococcota, and
SAR324, are ubiquitous in marine environments and play essential roles in global carbon …

The Structure of cbb3 Cytochrome Oxidase Provides Insights into Proton Pumping

S Buschmann, E Warkentin, H Xie, JD Langer… - Science, 2010 - science.org
The heme-copper oxidases (HCOs) accomplish the key event of aerobic respiration; they
couple O2 reduction and transmembrane proton pumping. To gain new insights into the still …

[HTML][HTML] The superfamily of heme–copper oxygen reductases: types and evolutionary considerations

FL Sousa, RJ Alves, MA Ribeiro, JB Pereira-Leal… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2012 - Elsevier
Heme–copper oxygen reductases (HCO) reduce O2 to water being the last enzymatic
complexes of most aerobic respiratory chains. These enzymes promote energy conservation …

Bacterial adaptation of respiration from oxic to microoxic and anoxic conditions: redox control

E Bueno, S Mesa, EJ Bedmar… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Under a shortage of oxygen, bacterial growth can be faced mainly by two ATP-generating
mechanisms:(i) by synthesis of specific high-affinity terminal oxidases that allow bacteria to …

Aerobic growth at nanomolar oxygen concentrations

DA Stolper, NP Revsbech… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Molecular oxygen (O2) is the second most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere, but in
many natural environments, its concentration is reduced to low or even undetectable levels …

Validating the Cyc2 Neutrophilic Iron Oxidation Pathway Using Meta-omics of Zetaproteobacteria Iron Mats at Marine Hydrothermal Vents

SM McAllister, SW Polson, DA Butterfield, BT Glazer… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Zetaproteobacteria create extensive iron (Fe) oxide mats at marine hydrothermal vents,
making them an ideal model for microbial Fe oxidation at circumneutral pH. Comparison of …

Phylogenomic Evidence for the Presence of a Flagellum and cbb3 Oxidase in the Free-Living Mitochondrial Ancestor

D Sassera, N Lo, S Epis, G D'Auria… - Molecular biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The initiation of the intracellular symbiosis that would give rise to mitochondria and
eukaryotes was a major event in the history of life on earth. Hypotheses to explain …

Was nitric oxide the first deep electron sink?

AL Ducluzeau, R Van Lis, S Duval… - Trends in biochemical …, 2009 - cell.com
Evolutionary histories of enzymes involved in chemiosmotic energy conversion indicate that
a strongly oxidizing substrate was available to the last universal common ancestor before …