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 …

A review of approaches and techniques used in aquatic contaminated sediments: metal removal and stabilization by chemical and biotechnological processes

A Akcil, C Erust, S Ozdemiroglu, V Fonti… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2015 - Elsevier
The contamination of aquatic sediments with metals is a widespread environmental
problem. Coastal aquatic ecosystems with low hydrodynamics need to be periodically …

Biomining—biotechnologies for extracting and recovering metals from ores and waste materials

DB Johnson - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Evolution and current status of biomining technologies.•Mechanistic and
microbiological aspects.•Challenges, opportunities and projected developments in …

Progress in bioleaching: fundamentals and mechanisms of bacterial metal sulfide oxidation—part A

M Vera, A Schippers, W Sand - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2013 - Springer
Bioleaching of metal sulfides is performed by a diverse group of microorganisms. The
dissolution chemistry of metal sulfides follows two pathways, which are determined by the …

Microbial diversity and metabolic networks in acid mine drainage habitats

C Méndez-García, AI Peláez, V Mesa… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Acid mine drainage (AMD) emplacements are low-complexity natural systems. Low-pH
conditions appear to be the main factor underlying the limited diversity of the microbial …

[图书][B] Environmental chemistry

SE Manahan - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
With clear explanations, real-world examples and updated ancillary material, the 11th
edition of Environmental Chemistry emphasizes the concepts essential to the practice of …

Sulfate reduction at low pH to remediate acid mine drainage

I Sánchez-Andrea, JL Sanz, MFM Bijmans… - Journal of hazardous …, 2014 - Elsevier
Industrial activities and the natural oxidation of metallic sulfide-ores produce sulfate-rich
waters with low pH and high heavy metals content, generally termed acid mine drainage …

Global diversity and inferred ecophysiology of microorganisms with the potential for dissimilatory sulfate/sulfite reduction

M Diao, S Dyksma, E Koeksoy, DK Ngugi… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Sulfate/sulfite-reducing microorganisms (SRM) are ubiquitous in nature, driving the global
sulfur cycle. A hallmark of SRM is the dissimilatory sulfite reductase encoded by the genes …

Biomining: metal recovery from ores with microorganisms

A Schippers, S Hedrich, J Vasters, M Drobe… - … I: Metal-related Issues, 2014 - Springer
Biomining is an increasingly applied biotechnological procedure for processing of ores in
the mining industry (biohydrometallurgy). Nowadays the production of copper from low …

Ecological roles of dominant and rare prokaryotes in acid mine drainage revealed by metagenomics and metatranscriptomics

ZS Hua, YJ Han, LX Chen, J Liu, M Hu, SJ Li… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
High-throughput sequencing is expanding our knowledge of microbial diversity in the
environment. Still, understanding the metabolic potentials and ecological roles of rare and …