[HTML][HTML] Microbial diversity and metabolic networks in acid mine drainage habitats

C Méndez-García, AI Peláez, V Mesa… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Acid mine drainage (AMD) emplacements are low-complexity natural systems. Low-pH
conditions appear to be the main factor underlying the limited diversity of the microbial …

Genetic engineering of extremely acidophilic Acidithiobacillus species for biomining: Progress and perspectives

J Chen, Y Liu, P Diep, R Mahadevan - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
With global demands for mineral resources increasing and ore grades decreasing,
microorganisms have been increasingly deployed in biomining applications to recover …

Biodiversity, metabolism and applications of acidophilic sulfur‐metabolizing microorganisms

M Dopson, DB Johnson - Environmental Microbiology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Extremely acidic, sulfur‐rich environments can be natural, such as solfatara fields in
geothermal and volcanic areas, or anthropogenic, such as acid mine drainage waters. Many …

[HTML][HTML] Deep neural networks outperform human expert's capacity in characterizing bioleaching bacterial biofilm composition

A Buetti-Dinh, V Galli, S Bellenberg, O Ilie… - Biotechnology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Deep neural networks have been successfully applied to diverse fields of
computer vision. However, they only outperform human capacities in a few cases. Methods …

Acid mine drainage affects the diversity and metal resistance gene profile of sediment bacterial community along a river

X Zhang, S Tang, M Wang, W Sun, Y Xie, H Peng… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is one of the most hazardous byproducts of some types of mining.
However, research on how AMD affects the bacterial community structure of downstream …

Community genomic analysis of an extremely acidophilic sulfur-oxidizing biofilm

DS Jones, HL Albrecht, KS Dawson… - The ISME …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Highly acidic (pH 0–1) biofilms, known as 'snottites', form on the walls and ceilings
of hydrogen sulfide-rich caves. We investigated the population structure, physiology and …

[HTML][HTML] The alterations of tracheal microbiota and inflammation caused by different levels of ammonia exposure in broiler chickens

Y Zhou, M Zhang, Q Liu, J Feng - Poultry Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Ammonia (NH 3) is a known harmful gas and exists in haze, forming secondary organic
aerosols. Exposure to ambient ammonia correlates with the respiratory tract infection, and …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic adaptations enabling Acidithiobacillus distribution across wide-ranging hot spring temperatures and pHs

C Sriaporn, KA Campbell, MJ Van Kranendonk… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Terrestrial hot spring settings span a broad spectrum of physicochemistries.
Physicochemical parameters, such as pH and temperature, are key factors influencing …

[HTML][HTML] Sulfur Metabolism in the Extreme Acidophile Acidithiobacillus Caldus

S Mangold, J Valdés, DS Holmes… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Given the challenges to life at low pH, an analysis of inorganic sulfur compound (ISC)
oxidation was initiated in the chemolithoautotrophic extremophile Acidithiobacillus caldus. A …

Metal resistance in acidophilic microorganisms and its significance for biotechnologies

M Dopson, DS Holmes - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2014 - Springer
Extremely acidophilic microorganisms have an optimal pH of< 3 and are found in all three
domains of life. As metals are more soluble at acid pH, acidophiles are often challenged by …