With global demands for mineral resources increasing and ore grades decreasing,
microorganisms have been increasingly deployed in biomining applications to recover …

Industrial biomining has been extensively used for many years to recover valuable metals
such as copper, gold, uranium and others. Furthermore, microorganisms involved in these …

This work presents the molecular foundation of a consortium of five efficient bacteria strains
isolated from copper mines currently used in state of the art industrial-scale biotechnology …

Sulfur is one of the most versatile elements in life due to its reactivity in different oxidation
and reduction states. In contrast to the assimilatory provision of sulfur-containing cell …

Biotechnology could provide many innovative alternatives for changing the way metals are
obtained. Microbes have been used to dissolve metallic minerals and release metal ions …

The acidithiobacilli are sulfur-oxidizing acidophilic bacteria that thrive in both natural and
anthropogenic low pH environments. They contribute to processes that lead to the …

Many Bacteria and Archaea employ the heterodisulfide reductase (Hdr)-like sulfur oxidation
pathway. The relevant genes are inevitably associated with genes encoding lipoate-binding …

Persulfide groups participate in a wide array of biochemical pathways and are chemically
very versatile. The TusA protein has been identified as a central element supplying and …

Adaptation and microbial attachment mechanisms for the degradation of sulfide ores are
mediated by the production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and their role in …

Constraint-based modeling has risen as an alternative for characterizing metabolism of
communities. Adaptations of flux balance analysis have been proposed to model metabolic …