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Syntrophy emerges spontaneously in complex metabolic systems

PLoS Computational Biology, 2019
Syntrophy allows a microbial community as a whole to survive in an environment, even though individual microbes cannot. The metabolic interdependence typical of syntrophy is thought to arise from the accumulation of degenerative mutations during the ...
Sayed-Rzgar Hosseini, Laurent Hebert-Dufresne, Eric Libby   +2 more
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Enhancement of methanogenesis by electric syntrophy with biogenic iron‐sulfide minerals [PDF]

MicrobiologyOpen, 2019
Recent studies have shown that interspecies electron transfer between chemoheterotrophic bacteria and methanogenic archaea can be mediated by electric currents flowing through conductive iron oxides, a process termed electric syntrophy. In this study, we
Kensuke Igarashi, Souichiro Kato
exaly   +4 more sources

Syntrophy between bacteria and archaea enhances methane production in an EGSB bioreactor fed by cheese whey wastewater

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
The cheese-making process generates large amounts of cheese whey wastewater (CWW), which is abundant in nutrients but difficult to dispose of, contributing to the eutrophication of natural environments due to inadequate waste management. Here we show the
Jesus Mauricio Ernesto Hernández Méndez, Maria Emperatriz Domínguez Espinosa, Michel Geovanni Santiago Martinez   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Reactive Oxygen and Sulfur Species: Partners in Crime

Oxygen, 2022
The emergence of complexity requires cooperation, yet selection typically favors defectors that do not cooperate. Such evolutionary conflict can be alleviated by a variety of mechanisms, allowing complexity to emerge.
Neil W. Blackstone
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“Candidatus Ethanoperedens,” a Thermophilic Genus of Archaea Mediating the Anaerobic Oxidation of Ethane

mBio, 2020
Cold seeps and hydrothermal vents deliver large amounts of methane and other gaseous alkanes into marine surface sediments. Consortia of archaea and partner bacteria thrive on the oxidation of these alkanes and its coupling to sulfate reduction.
Cedric Jasper Hahn, Rafael Laso-Pérez, Francesca Vulcano, Konstantinos-Marios Vaziourakis, Runar Stokke, Ida Helene Steen, Andreas Teske, Antje Boetius, Manuel Liebeke, Rudolf Amann, Katrin Knittel, Gunter Wegener   +11 more
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Enoyl-Coenzyme A Respiration via Formate Cycling in Syntrophic Bacteria

mBio, 2022
Syntrophic bacteria play a key role in the anaerobic conversion of biological matter to methane. They convert short-chain fatty acids or alcohols to H2, formate, and acetate that serve as substrates for methanogenic archaea.
Michael Agne, Lena Appel, Carola Seelmann, Matthias Boll   +3 more
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Microbial interspecies interactions: recent findings in syntrophic consortia

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015
Microbes are ubiquitous in our biosphere, and inevitably live in communities. They excrete a variety of metabolites and support the growth of other microbes in a community.
Atsushi eKouzuma, Souichiro eKato, Kazuya eWatanabe   +2 more
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Simultaneous Genome Sequencing of Prosthecochloris ethylica and Desulfuromonas acetoxidans within a Syntrophic Mixture Reveals Unique Pili and Protein Interactions

Microorganisms, 2020
Strains of Chloropseudomonas ethylica, 2-K, N2, and N3 are known to be composed of a syntrophic mixture of a green sulfur bacterium and a sulfur-reducing colorless component.
John A. Kyndt, Jozef J. Van Beeumen, Terry E. Meyer   +2 more
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Hydrogen limitation and syntrophic growth among natural assemblages of thermophilic methanogens at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Thermophilic methanogens are common autotrophs at hydrothermal vents, but their growth constraints and dependence on H2 syntrophy in situ are poorly understood.
Begüm D. Topçuoğlu, Lucy C. Stewart, Hilary G Morrison, David A. Butterfield, David A. Butterfield, Julie A Huber, James F. Holden   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interspecies Microbial Fusion and Large-Scale Exchange of Cytoplasmic Proteins and RNA in a Syntrophic Clostridium Coculture

mBio, 2020
Microbial syntrophy is universal in nature, profoundly affecting the composition and function of microbiomes. We have recently reported data suggesting direct cell-to-cell interactions leading to electron and material exchange between the two microbes in
Kamil Charubin, Shannon Modla, Jeffrey L. Caplan, Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis   +3 more
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