Sulfur oxidation is an essential component of the earth's sulfur cycle. Acidithiobacillus spp.
can oxidize various reduced inorganic sulfur compounds (RISCs) with high efficiency to …

Sulfur (S) is a crucial component in the environment and living organisms. This work is the
first attempt to provide an overview and critical discussion on the roles, mechanisms, and …

Lithotrophic sulfur oxidation is an ancient metabolic process. Ecologically and taxonomically
diverged prokaryotes have differential abilities to utilize different reduced sulfur compounds …

Extremely acidic, sulfur‐rich environments can be natural, such as solfatara fields in
geothermal and volcanic areas, or anthropogenic, such as acid mine drainage waters. Many …

Acidophilic micro-organisms are those (mostly prokaryotes) that grow optimally at pH< 3
(extreme acidophiles) or at pH 3–5 (moderate acidophiles). Although once considered to …

Given the challenges to life at low pH, an analysis of inorganic sulfur compound (ISC)
oxidation was initiated in the chemolithoautotrophic extremophile Acidithiobacillus caldus. A …

Background Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans (A. thiooxidans), a chemolithoautotrophic
extremophile, is widely used in the industrial recovery of copper (bioleaching or biomining) …

Despite their taxonomic description, not all members of the order Sulfolobales are capable
of oxidizing reduced sulfur species, which, in addition to iron oxidation, is a desirable trait of …

Sulfur oxidation stands as a pivotal process within the Earth's sulfur cycle, in which
Acidithiobacillus species emerge as skillful sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. They are able to …

A taxonomic and annotated functional description of microbial life was deduced from 53 Mb
of metagenomic sequence retrieved from a planktonic fraction of the Neotropical high …