ArticleThe ISME journal2018
Electron carriers in microbial sulfate reduction inferred from experimental and environmental sulfur isotope fractionations.
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- Comparative proteomics reveals hydrogenase-centered steel-dependent growth and corrosion inFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Molecular insights into the dynamic relationship between respiration rate and sulfur isotope effect.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- What Controls the Sulfur Isotope Fractionation during Dissimilatory Sulfate Reduction?ACS environmental Au · 2023Review
- A Cristae-Like Microcompartment inmBio · 2022Article
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- Physiological, genomic, and sulfur isotopic characterization of methanol metabolism by Desulfovibrio carbinolicus.PloS one · 2021Article
- Role of APS reductase in biogeochemical sulfur isotope fractionation.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Proteomic and Isotopic Response ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- A Critical Look at the Combined Use of Sulfur and Oxygen Isotopes to Study Microbial Metabolisms in Methane-Rich Environments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Deconstructing the Dissimilatory Sulfate Reduction Pathway: Isotope Fractionation of a Mutant Unable of Growth on Sulfate.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Dissimilatory sulfate reduction (DSR) has been a key process influencing the global carbon cycle, atmospheric composition and climate for much of Earth's history, yet the energy metabolism of sulfate-reducing microbes remains poorly understood. Many organisms, particularly sulfate reducers, live in low-energy environments and metabolize at very low rates, requiring specific physiological adaptations. We identify one such potential adaptation-the electron carriers selected for survival under energy-limited conditions. Employing a quantitative biochemical-isotopic model, we find that the large S isotope fractionations (>55‰) observed in a wide range of natural environments and culture experiments at low respiration rates are only possible when the standard-state Gibbs free energy (ΔG'°) of all steps during DSR is more positive than -10 kJ mol
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