Syntrophy goes electric: direct interspecies electron transfer

DR Lovley - Annual review of microbiology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) has biogeochemical significance, and practical
applications that rely on DIET or DIET-based aspects of microbial physiology are growing …

Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria

G D'Souza, S Shitut, D Preussger, G Yousif… - Natural product …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Literature covered: early 2000s to late 2017 Bacteria frequently exchange metabolites with
other micro-and macro-organisms. In these often obligate cross-feeding interactions, primary …

Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea

GL Chadwick, CT Skennerton, R Laso-Pérez… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to sulfate reduction is a microbially mediated
process requiring a syntrophic partnership between anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) …

Reverse methanogenesis and respiration in methanotrophic archaea

PHA Timmers, CU Welte, JJ Koehorst, CM Plugge… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is catalyzed by anaerobic methane‐oxidizing
archaea (ANME) via a reverse and modified methanogenesis pathway. Methanogens can …

Genomic exploration of the diversity, ecology, and evolution of the archaeal domain of life

A Spang, EF Caceres, TJG Ettema - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND Archaea have been recognized as a major domain of life besides Bacteria
and Eukarya for about 40 years. Much of the pioneering research on archaeal organisms …

Bacterial communities: interactions to scale

RM Stubbendieck, C Vargas-Bautista… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In the environment, bacteria live in complex multispecies communities. These communities
span in scale from small, multicellular aggregates to billions or trillions of cells within the …

Quantitative imaging of gut microbiota spatial organization

KA Earle, G Billings, M Sigal, JS Lichtman… - Cell host & …, 2015 - cell.com
Genomic technologies have significantly advanced our understanding of the composition
and diversity of host-associated microbial populations. However, their spatial organization …

Electron transfer in syntrophic communities of anaerobic bacteria and archaea

AJM Stams, CM Plugge - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2009 - nature.com
Interspecies electron transfer is a key process in methanogenic and sulphate-reducing
environments. Bacteria and archaea that live in syntrophic communities take advantage of …

Anaerobic oxidation of methane: progress with an unknown process

K Knittel, A Boetius - Annual review of microbiology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Methane is the most abundant hydrocarbon in the atmosphere, and it is an important
greenhouse gas, which has so far contributed an estimated 20% of postindustrial global …

Zero-valent sulphur is a key intermediate in marine methane oxidation

J Milucka, TG Ferdelman, L Polerecky, D Franzke… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from marine sediments are controlled by
anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled primarily to sulphate reduction (AOM). Sulphate …