The life sulfuric: microbial ecology of sulfur cycling in marine sediments

K Wasmund, M Mußmann, A Loy - Environmental microbiology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Almost the entire seafloor is covered with sediments that can be more than 10 000 m thick
and represent a vast microbial ecosystem that is a major component of Earth's element and …

Microbial sulfur metabolism and environmental implications

B Wu, F Liu, W Fang, T Yang, GH Chen, Z He… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sulfur as a macroelement plays an important role in biochemistry in both natural
environments and engineering biosystems, which can be further linked to other important …

Happy together: microbial communities that hook up to swap electrons

DR Lovley - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) and cable bacteria has
demonstrated that microbial cells can exchange electrons over long distances (μm–cm) …

[HTML][HTML] NanoSIMS for biological applications: current practices and analyses

J Nuñez, R Renslow, JB Cliff, CR Anderton - Biointerphases, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) has become an increasingly utilized tool in
biologically relevant studies. Of these, high lateral resolution methodologies using the …

A highly conductive fibre network enables centimetre-scale electron transport in multicellular cable bacteria

FJR Meysman, R Cornelissen, S Trashin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Biological electron transport is classically thought to occur over nanometre distances, yet
recent studies suggest that electrical currents can run along centimetre-long cable bacteria …

Revealing the mechanisms of polypyrrole (Ppy) enhancing methane production from anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge (WAS)

J Qian, Y Zhang, L Bai, X Yan, Y Du, R Ma, BJ Ni - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising method for treating waste activated sludge (WAS),
but the low methane yield limits its large-scale application. The addition of conductive …

Cable bacteria with electric connection to oxygen attract flocks of diverse bacteria

JJ Bjerg, JJM Lustermans, IPG Marshall… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cable bacteria are centimeter-long filamentous bacteria that conduct electrons via internal
wires, thus coupling sulfide oxidation in deeper, anoxic sediment with oxygen reduction in …

Electrically conductive pili from pilin genes of phylogenetically diverse microorganisms

DJF Walker, RY Adhikari, DE Holmes, JE Ward… - The ISME …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The possibility that bacteria other than Geobacter species might contain genes for
electrically conductive pili (e-pili) was investigated by heterologously expressing pilin genes …

On the evolution and physiology of cable bacteria

KU Kjeldsen, L Schreiber, CA Thorup… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Cable bacteria of the family Desulfobulbaceae form centimeter-long filaments comprising
thousands of cells. They occur worldwide in the surface of aquatic sediments, where they …

Oxygen loss from seagrass roots coincides with colonisation of sulphide-oxidising cable bacteria and reduces sulphide stress

BC Martin, J Bougoure, MH Ryan, WW Bennett… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Seagrasses thrive in anoxic sediments where sulphide can accumulate to phytotoxic levels.
So how do seagrasses persist in this environment? Here, we propose that radial oxygen …