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Syntrophy in Methanogenic Degradation

2010
This chapter deals with microbial communities of bacteria and archaea that closely cooperate in methanogenic degradation and perform metabolic functions in this community that neither one of them could carry out alone. The methanogenic degradation of fatty acids, alcohols, most aromatic compounds, amino acids, and others is performed in partnership ...
Worm, P.   +4 more
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Anaerobic prokaryotes: competition and syntrophy

1995
Abstract The most obvious impact of fermentation in the contemporary world is on human and animal nutrition. The community of fermenting microbes living in the forestomach of herbivorous mammals is completely responsible for decomposing grass and other plant material to the fatty acids on which the host depends for growth; and wood ...
Tom Fenchel, Bland J Finlay
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Syntrophy Goes Electric: Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer

Annual Review of Microbiology, 2017
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) has biogeochemical significance, and practical applications that rely on DIET or DIET-based aspects of microbial physiology are growing. Mechanisms for DIET have primarily been studied in defined cocultures in which Geobacter species are one of the DIET partners. Electrically conductive pili (e-pili) can be
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Genesis of Ecto-symbiotic features based on Commensalistic Syntrophy

2022
AbstractThe origin of eukaryotes and organellogenesis have been recognized as a major evolutionary transition and subject to in-depth studies. Acknowledging the fact that the initial interactions and conditions of cooperative behaviour between free-living single-celled organisms are widely debated, we narrow our scope to a single mechanism that could ...
Nandakishor Krishnan   +3 more
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Genomic Insights into Syntrophy: The Paradigm for Anaerobic Metabolic Cooperation

Annual Review of Microbiology, 2012
Syntrophy is a tightly coupled mutualistic interaction between hydrogen-/formate-producing and hydrogen-/formate-using microorganisms that occurs throughout the microbial world. Syntrophy is essential for global carbon cycling, waste decomposition, and biofuel production.
Jessica R, Sieber   +2 more
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