ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2019
Sulfur metabolites in the pelagic ocean.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 79 papers.
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79 citing papers in PubMed, 191 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Microbially driven methane and sulfur cycling processes and coupling mechanisms in mangrove sediments.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Studying organosulfonate metabolism in southern Russia chernozem soil microbial community: ubiquity of the desulfonation pathways and possible mixotrophy in common soil heterotrophs.Archives of microbiology · 2026Article
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- Hypoxia increases microbial carbon assimilation of taurine in a seasonally anoxic fjord.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Advances in microbial sulfoquinovose catabolism.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Models and co-culture experiments assess four mechanisms of phytoplankton-bacteria interactions.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Single-cell heterotrophic activity in deep-ocean prokaryotic communities quantified by BONCAT and microautoradiography.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Cosmopolitan marine bacteria facilitate a vast phytoplankton-derived sulfonate-based carbon flow through sulfoquinovosidases.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Ecogenomics and functional biogeography of the Roseobacter group in the global oceans based on 653 MAGs and SAGs.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Multifunctionally diverse alkaline phosphatases of Alteromonas drive the phosphorus cycle in the ocean.Nature communications · 2025Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Marine microorganisms play crucial roles in Earth's element cycles through the production and consumption of organic matter. One of the elements whose fate is governed by microbial activities is sulfur, an essential constituent of biomass and a crucial player in climate processes. With sulfur already being well studied in the ocean in its inorganic forms, organic sulfur compounds are emerging as important chemical links between marine phytoplankton and bacteria. The high concentration of inorganic sulfur in seawater, which can readily be reduced by phytoplankton, provides a freely available source of sulfur for biomolecule synthesis. Mechanisms such as exudation and cell lysis release these phytoplankton-derived sulfur metabolites into seawater, from which they are rapidly assimilated by marine bacteria and archaea. Energy-limited bacteria use scavenged sulfur metabolites as substrates or for the synthesis of vitamins, cofactors, signalling compounds and antibiotics. In this Review, we examine the current knowledge of sulfur metabolites released into and taken up from the marine dissolved organic matter pool by microorganisms, and the ecological links facilitated by their diversity in structures, oxidation states and chemistry.
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