[HTML][HTML] Plastic-microbe interaction in the marine environment: Research methods and opportunities

JKZ Xiang, S Bairoliya, ZT Cho, B Cao - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
Approximately 9 million metric tons of plastics enters the ocean annually, and once in the
marine environment, plastic surfaces can be quickly colonised by marine microorganisms …

Pyrite-enhanced sludge digestion via stimulation of direct interspecies electron transfer between syntrophic propionate-and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria and …

P Jiao, X Zhang, S Qiu, X Zhou, Z Tian, Y Liang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The supplementation of conductive materials (CMs) is a promising strategy to improve the
methane (CH 4) yield from anaerobic digestion (AD) of sewage sludge. However, most CMs …

Anthropogenic impacts on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere

KK Amundson, MA Borton, MJ Wilkins - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
The terrestrial subsurface is estimated to be the largest reservoir of microbial life on Earth.
However, the subsurface also harbours economic, industrial and environmental resources …

[HTML][HTML] Expression of divergent methyl/alkyl coenzyme M reductases from uncultured archaea

N Shao, Y Fan, CW Chou, S Yavari… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Methanogens and anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (ANME) are important players in
the global carbon cycle. Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) is a key enzyme in methane …

[HTML][HTML] Natural and anthropogenic carbon input affect microbial activity in salt marsh sediment

ES Frates, RL Spietz, MR Silverstein, P Girguis… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Salt marshes are dynamic, highly productive ecosystems positioned at the interface between
terrestrial and marine systems. They are exposed to large quantities of both natural and …

Sequential recovery of protein and ammonium from waste sludge and functional metabolism in a combined process of nutrient recovery electro-fermentation (NREF)

J Gu, H Zhou, J Wang, K Feng, G Xie, B Liu… - Resources, Conservation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Waste sludge is a valuable resource for nitrogen recovery, while electro-fermentation system
(EFS) can boost sludge fermentation. However, the simultaneous recovery of nitrogen …

[HTML][HTML] Subsurface hydrocarbon degradation strategies in low-and high-sulfate coal seam communities identified with activity-based metagenomics

HD Schweitzer, HJ Smith, EP Barnhart… - NPJ biofilms and …, 2022 - nature.com
Environmentally relevant metagenomes and BONCAT-FACS derived translationally active
metagenomes from Powder River Basin coal seams were investigated to elucidate potential …

[HTML][HTML] Metatranscriptomics-guided genome-scale metabolic reconstruction reveals the carbon flux and trophic interaction in methanogenic communities

W Yan, D Wang, Y Wang, C Wang, X Chen, L Liu… - Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background Despite rapid advances in genomic-resolved metagenomics and remarkable
explosion of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), the function of uncultivated …

Improved formation of biogenic methane by cultivable bacteria in highly volatile bituminous coals

B Liu, Y Wang, Y Li, Y Yang, J Chen, T Zhang - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biogenic gas production can be improved by activating coal microorganisms, which is of
great significance and application value to increase the production of coalbed methane …

Using click chemistry to study microbial ecology and evolution

S van Kasteren, DE Rozen - ISME communications, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Technological advances have largely driven the revolution in our understanding of the
structure and function of microbial communities. Culturing, long the primary tool to probe …