Clearing the air: unraveling past and guiding future research in atmospheric chemosynthesis

AE Ray, DZ Tribbia, DA Cowan… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Atmospheric chemosynthesis is a recently proposed form of chemoautotrophic microbial
primary production. The proposed process relies on the oxidation of trace concentrations of …

Carbon monoxide-sensing transcription factors: regulators of microbial carbon monoxide oxidation pathway gene expression

MR Dent, BR Weaver, MG Roberts… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Carbon monoxide (CO) serves as a source of energy and carbon for a diverse set of
microbes found in anaerobic and aerobic environments. The enzymes that bacteria and …

Metabolic versatility of soil microbial communities below the rocks of the hyperarid Dalangtan Playa

L Liu, Y Chen, J Shen, Y Pan, W Lin - Applied and Environmental …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbial assemblages inhabiting soils sheltered by rocks are widespread in the hyperarid
and hypersaline Dalangtan Playa, which could contribute significantly to the ecological …

[HTML][HTML] Antarctic rock and soil microbiomes: Shared taxa, selective pressures, and extracellular DNA effects

F Canini, BJ Adams, LP D'Acqui, F D'Alò, L Zucconi - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
Highly adapted and often endemic microbial taxa inhabit soils and rocks of extremely cold
and dry Antarctic deserts. However, the source populations of these organisms have not yet …

Ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO) is essential for growth of the methanotroph Methylococcus capsulatus strain Bath

CA Henard, C Wu, W Xiong, JM Henard… - Applied and …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO) enzyme
found in plants, algae, and an array of autotrophic bacteria is also encoded by a subset of …

Elevational constraints on the composition and genomic attributes of microbial communities in Antarctic soils

NB Dragone, JB Henley, H Holland-Moritz, M Diaz… - …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The inland soils found on the Antarctic continent represent one of the more challenging
environments for microbial life on Earth. Nevertheless, Antarctic soils harbor unique …

Aerobic hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria in soil: from cells to ecosystems

X Fan, X Zhang, G Zhao, X Zhang, L Dong… - … in Environmental Science …, 2022 - Springer
Aerobic hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria (HOB) is a group of active, abundant, and diverse
microorganisms with representatives in nearly all phyla, distributed in soil exposed to …

The early microbial colonizers of a short-lived volcanic island in the Kingdom of Tonga

NB Dragone, K Whittaker, OM Lord, EA Burke, H Dufel… - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The island of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai (HTHH) in the Kingdom of Tonga
was formed by Surtseyan eruptions and persisted for 7 years before being obliterated by a …

Microbial community structure and metabolic potential at the initial stage of soil development of the glacial forefields in Svalbard

C Tian, Y Lv, Z Yang, R Zhang, Z Zhu, H Ma, J Li… - Microbial Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Microbial communities have been identified as the primary inhabitants of Arctic forefields.
However, the metabolic potential of microbial communities in these newly exposed soils …

Reanalysis of NOAA H observations: implications for the H budget

F Paulot, G Pétron, AM Crotwell… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
Hydrogen (H 2) is a promising low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels for many applications.
However, significant gaps in our understanding of the atmospheric H 2 budget limit our …