Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle

MA Moran, EB Kujawinski, WF Schroer, SA Amin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
One-quarter of photosynthesis-derived carbon on Earth rapidly cycles through a set of short-
lived seawater metabolites that are generated from the activities of marine phytoplankton …

Marine dissolved organic matter: a vast and unexplored molecular space

TS Catalá, S Shorte, T Dittmar - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2021 - Springer
Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) comprises a vast and unexplored molecular space.
Most of it resided in the oceans for thousands of years. It is among the most diverse …

Marine dissolved organic matter shares thousands of molecular formulae yet differs structurally across major water masses

M Seidel, SPB Vemulapalli, D Mathieu… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Most oceanic dissolved organic matter (DOM) is still not fully molecularly characterized. We
combined high-field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and ultrahigh-resolution mass …

Non-targeted tandem mass spectrometry enables the visualization of organic matter chemotype shifts in coastal seawater

D Petras, JJ Minich, LB Cancelada, RR Torres… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Urbanization along coastlines alters marine ecosystems including contributing molecules of
anthropogenic origin to the coastal dissolved organic matter (DOM) pool. A broad …

Relating Molecular Properties to the Persistence of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter with Liquid Chromatography–Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry

RM Boiteau, YE Corilo, WR Kew, C Dewey… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) contains a complex mixture of small molecules that
eludes rapid biological degradation. Spatial and temporal variations in the abundance of …

Revisiting the precursors of the most abundant natural products on Earth: A look back at 30+ years of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) research and ahead to new …

S Kusch, D Rush - Organic Geochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review we look back on 30+ years of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) research within the
field of organic geochemistry. BHPs are ubiquitous, intact polar lipids in modern …

Molecular commerce on coral reefs: using metabolomics to reveal biochemical exchanges underlying holobiont biology and the ecology of coastal ecosystems

L Wegley Kelly, CE Nelson, LI Aluwihare… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The rapidly advancing field of metabolomics encompasses a diverse suite of powerful
analytical and bioinformatic tools that can help to reveal the diversity and activity of chemical …

Production of structurally diverse sphingolipids by anaerobic marine bacteria in the euxinic Black Sea water column

S Ding, FAB von Meijenfeldt, NJ Bale… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Microbial lipids, used as taxonomic markers and physiological indicators, have mainly been
studied through cultivation. However, this approach is limited due to the scarcity of cultures …

Protist impacts on marine cyanovirocell metabolism

C Howard-Varona, S Roux, BP Bowen… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The fate of oceanic carbon and nutrients depends on interactions between viruses,
prokaryotes, and unicellular eukaryotes (protists) in a highly interconnected planktonic food …

Lipidomics of environmental microbial communities. II: Characterization using molecular networking and information theory

S Ding, NJ Bale, EC Hopmans, L Villanueva… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Structurally diverse, specialized lipids are crucial components of microbial membranes and
other organelles and play essential roles in ecological functioning. The detection of such …