Morphological plasticity in a sulfur-oxidizing marine bacterium from the SUP05 clade enhances dark carbon fixation

V Shah, X Zhao, RA Lundeen, AE Ingalls, D Nicastro… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from the SUP05 clade are abundant in anoxic and oxygenated
marine waters that appear to lack reduced sources of sulfur for cell growth. This raises …

Draft Genome Sequence of Chromatium okenii Isolated from the Stratified Alpine Lake Cadagno

SM Luedin, N Liechti, RP Cox, F Danza, NU Frigaard… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Blooms of purple sulfur bacteria (PSB) are important drivers of the global sulfur cycling
oxidizing reduced sulfur in intertidal flats and stagnant water bodies. Since the discovery of …

[PDF][PDF] Biochemical, proteomic and genetic characterization of oxygen survival mechanisms in sulphatereducing bacteria of the genus Desulfovibrio

A Dolla, J Kurtz, M Teixeira, G Voordouw - LL Barton & WA Hamilton, 2007 - academia.edu
Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are anaerobes, which derive energy for growth from
anaerobic metabolism, coupling the oxidation of organic substrates with the dissimilatory …

Sulfur compounds as photosynthetic electron donors

DC Brune - Anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, 1995 - Springer
Most photosynthetic bacteria can grow photoautotrophically using inorganic sulfur
compounds (ie sulfide, sulfur, polysulfides, thiosulfate, or sulfite) as electron donors for CO 2 …

A novel enzyme of type VI sulfide: quinone oxidoreductases in purple sulfur photosynthetic bacteria

Á Duzs, A Tóth, B Németh, T Balogh, PB Kós… - Applied microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
Sulfide detoxification can be catalyzed by ancient membrane-bound flavoproteins, sulfide:
quinone oxidoreductases (Sqr), which have important roles in sulfide homeostasis and …

Light-dependent sulfide oxidation in the anoxic zone of the Chesapeake Bay can be explained by small populations of phototrophic bacteria

AJ Findlay, AJ Bennett, TE Hanson… - Applied and …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial sulfide oxidation in aquatic environments is an important ecosystem process, as
sulfide is potently toxic to aerobic organisms. Sulfide oxidation in anoxic waters can prevent …

A ubiquitous gammaproteobacterial clade dominates expression of sulfur oxidation genes across the mesopelagic ocean

F Baltar, C Martínez-Pérez, C Amano, M Vial… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The deep ocean (> 200 m depth) is the largest habitat on Earth. Recent evidence suggests
sulfur oxidation could be a major energy source for deep ocean microbes. However, the …

Metabolism of inorganic sulfur compounds in purple bacteria

J Sander, C Dahl - The purple phototrophic bacteria, 2009 - Springer
This chapter focuses on dissimilatory and assimilatory metabolism of inorganic sulfur
compounds by the bacteriochlorophyll-containing purple bacteria. Many anoxygenic …

Temperature and geographic location impact the distribution and diversity of photoautotrophic gene variants in alkaline Yellowstone hot springs

AC Bennett, SK Murugapiran, ED Kees… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Alkaline hot springs in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) provide a framework to study the
relationship between photoautotrophs and temperature. Previous work has focused on …

Subglacial Lake Whillans microbial biogeochemistry: a synthesis of current knowledge

JA Mikucki, PA Lee, D Ghosh… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Liquid water occurs below glaciers and ice sheets globally, enabling the existence of an
array of aquatic microbial ecosystems. In Antarctica, large subglacial lakes are present …