ArticleThe ISME journal2020
Electrogenic sulfide oxidation mediated by cable bacteria stimulates sulfate reduction in freshwater sediments.
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- Cable Bacteria and Their Biotechnological Application.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2025Review
- A framework for understanding collective microbiome metabolism.Nature microbiology · 2024Review
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- Electron Transfer in the Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycle.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Global diversity and inferred ecophysiology of microorganisms with the potential for dissimilatory sulfate/sulfite reduction.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2023Article
- Cable bacteria with electric connection to oxygen attract flocks of diverse bacteria.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Microbial succession in a marine sediment: Inferring interspecific microbial interactions with marine cable bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Dissimilatory nitrate reduction by a freshwater cable bacterium.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Biogeochemical impacts of fish farming on coastal sediments: Insights into the functional role of cable bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Cable bacteria at oxygen-releasing roots of aquatic plants: a widespread and diverse plant-microbe association.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Microbial Communities Involved in Methane, Sulfur, and Nitrogen Cycling in the Sediments of the Barents Sea.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Cable bacteria extend the impacts of elevated dissolved oxygen into anoxic sediments.The ISME journal · 2021Article
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- Cable bacteria reduce methane emissions from rice-vegetated soils.Nature communications · 2020Article
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Abstract
Cable bacteria are filamentous members of the Desulfobulbaceae family that oxidize sulfide with oxygen or nitrate by transferring electrons over centimeter distances in sediments. Recent studies show that freshwater sediments can support populations of cable bacteria at densities comparable to those found in marine environments. This is surprising since sulfide availability is presumably low in freshwater sediments due to sulfate limitation of sulfate reduction. Here we show that cable bacteria stimulate sulfate reduction in freshwater sediment through promotion of sulfate availability. Comparing experimental freshwater sediments with and without active cable bacteria, we observed a three- to tenfold increase in sulfate concentrations and a 4.5-fold increase in sulfate reduction rates when cable bacteria were present, while abundance and community composition of sulfate-reducing microorganisms (SRM) were unaffected. Correlation and ANCOVA analysis supported the hypothesis that the stimulation of sulfate reduction activity was due to relieve of the kinetic limitations of the SRM community through the elevated sulfate concentrations in sediments with cable bacteria activity. The elevated sulfate concentration was caused by cable bacteria-driven sulfide oxidation, by sulfate production from an indigenous sulfide pool, likely through cable bacteria-mediated dissolution and oxidation of iron sulfides, and by enhanced retention of sulfate, triggered by an electric field generated by the cable bacteria. Cable bacteria in freshwater sediments may thus be an integral component of a cryptic sulfur cycle and provide a mechanism for recycling of the scarce resource sulfate, stimulating sulfate reduction. It is possible that this stimulation has implication for methanogenesis and greenhouse gas emissions.
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