Bioreactor Expansion Affects Microbial Succession of Mixotrophic Acidophiles and Bioremediation of Cadmium-Contaminated Soils [PDF]
ToxicsMicrobial scale-up cultivation is the first step to bioremediating cadmium (Cd)-contaminated soils at the industrial scale. However, the changes in the microbial community as the bioreactor volume expands and their associations with soil Cd removal ...
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Eurypsychrophilic acidophiles: From (meta)genomes to low-temperature biotechnologies [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Low temperature and acidic environments encompass natural milieus such as acid rock drainage in Antarctica and anthropogenic sites including drained sulfidic sediments in Scandinavia.
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Ferric Iron Reduction in Extreme Acidophiles
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Biochemical processes are a key element of natural cycles occurring in the environment and enabling life on earth. With regard to microbially catalyzed iron transformation, research predominantly has focused on iron oxidation in acidophiles, whereas iron
Sabrina Hedrich, Hedrich Sabrina
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Microdiversity and fine-scale niche differentiation support persistence and coexistence of acidophiles in acid mine drainage [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionAcid mine drainage (AMD) systems are extreme acidic environments characterized by low pH and high metal concentrations that shape unique microbial ecosystems.
Alejandro Palomo +18 more
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Acidophilic heterotrophs: basic aspects and technological applications [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyAcidophiles comprise a group of microorganisms adapted to live in acidic environments. Despite acidophiles are usually associated with an autotrophic metabolism, more than 80 microorganisms capable of utilizing organic matter have been isolated from ...
Ernesto González +9 more
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2018 Most of the extracellular enzymes of acidophilic bacteria and archaea are stable at acidic pH with a relatively high thermostability. There is, however, a dearth of information on their acid stability.
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Archaea with a sweet tooth: isolation of novel sugar-degrading thermoacidophiles [PDF]
mSystemsWhile numerous deep-branching lineages of Archaea have been found over the last two decades, most of them still remain enigmatic and uncultivated. In their article, Prokofeva et al.
Anthony Kohtz
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Electrochemical and structural characterization of recombinant respiratory proteins of the acidophilic iron oxidizer Ferrovum sp. PN-J47-F6 suggests adaptations to the acidic pH at protein level [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThe tendency of the periplasmic redox proteins in acidophiles to have more positive redox potentials (Em) than their homologous counterparts in neutrophiles suggests an adaptation to acidic pH at protein level, since thermodynamics of electron transfer ...
Sophie R. Ullrich +3 more
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MSystems, 2022 Quorum sensing (QS) is a unique mechanism for microorganisms to coordinate their activities through intercellular communication, including four main types of autoinducer-1 (AI-1, namely, N-acyl homoserine lactone [AHL]), AI-2, AI-3, and diffusible ...
Jingxuan Qiu, Liyuan Ma, Xueduan Liu
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Bioleaching of GaAs metal hydroxide sludge: a biohydrometallurgical alternative to conventional acid leaching [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThe economically important metal gallium (Ga) is considered to be a critical raw material with a potentially high supply risk. The industrial semiconductor production process generates multiple waste streams that contain Ga in economically significant ...
Mareike Thea Fritze +4 more
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