Microorganisms pumping iron: anaerobic microbial iron oxidation and reduction

KA Weber, LA Achenbach, JD Coates - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2006 - nature.com
… The recent identification of anaerobic microbial Fe(II) oxidation closed a gap in the iron
redox cycle. Together with microbial Fe(III) reduction, these metabolisms are now known to …

Anaerobic, nitrate-dependent microbial oxidation of ferrous iron

KL Straub, M Benz, B Schink… - Applied and …, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
… phototrophic bacteria (24); ferrous iron was used as the electron donor … oxidation of ferrous
iron in the absence of oxygen is also possible by a light-independent, chemotrophic microbial

Microbial anaerobic Fe (II) oxidation–ecology, mechanisms and environmental implications

C Bryce, N Blackwell, C Schmidt, J Otte… - Environmental …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Iron is the most abundant redox-active metal in the Earth's … understood for anaerobic Fe(III)-reducing
or aerobic and … also play a role in the anaerobic oxidation of ferrous iron, Fe(II), and …

Repeated anaerobic microbial redox cycling of iron

AJ Coby, F Picardal, E Shelobolina, H Xu… - Applied and …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
… development of anaerobic microbial communities that take advantage of the energy available
during Fe-N redox oscillations. We examined this phenomenon in synthetic Fe(III) oxide (…

Microbial iron-redox cycling in subsurface environments

EE Roden - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2012 - portlandpress.com
… Although beyond the scope of the present paper, it is noteworthy that extracellular microbial
iron-redox metabolism contributes significantly to sediment carbon and energy flow, and …

Anaerobic microbial remobilization of toxic metals coprecipitated with iron oxide

AJ Francis, CJ Dodge - Environmental Science & Technology, 1990 - ACS Publications
… Although the removal of toxic metals from waste streams by iron oxide coprecipitation is
an … disposal sites particularly under anaerobic conditions. Bacteria use iron as an alternate …

Manganese inhibition of microbial iron reduction in anaerobic sediments

DR Lovley, EJP Phillips - Geomicrobiology Journal, 1988 - Taylor & Francis
… Under the conditions employed, amorphic Fe(III) oxide is the only iron oxide known to dissolve
rapidly in the acidic hydroxylamine solution but not 0.5 Ν HC1 (Lovley and Phillips 1987a)…

Oxidation of aromatic contaminants coupled to microbial iron reduction

DR Lovley, MJ Baedecker, DJ Lonergan, IM Cozzarelli… - Nature, 1989 - nature.com
… the oxidation of aromatic compounds in anaerobic groundwater. Until now, only abiological
mechanisms for the oxidation of … sediments, microbial activity is necessary for the oxidation of …

Iron in microbial metabolisms

KO Konhauser, A Kappler, EE Roden - Elements, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
… Similarly, did the evolution of microbial iron metabolisms leave a signature in the ancient
rock record? The search for answers to these questions will be facilitated only by applying an …

Archaea catalyze iron-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane

KF Ettwig, B Zhu, D Speth, JT Keltjens… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
… couple the reduction of environmentally relevant particulate forms of iron and manganese
to methane oxidation, filling one of the remaining lacunas in anaerobic methane oxidation. …