ArticleThe ISME journal2021
Cable bacteria extend the impacts of elevated dissolved oxygen into anoxic sediments.
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- How low can they go? Aerobic respiration by microorganisms under apparent anoxia.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- Cable Bacteria and Their Biotechnological Application.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2025Review
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- Electrogenic sulfur oxidation mediated by cable bacteria and its ecological effects.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2024Review
- Electron Transfer in the Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycle.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Closing the genome of unculturable cable bacteria using a combined metagenomic assembly of long and short sequencing reads.Microbial genomics · 2024Article
- Assessing the quality of drinking water from selected water sources in Mbarara city, South-western Uganda.PloS one · 2024Article
- The potential linkage between sediment oxygen demand and microbes and its contribution to the dissolved oxygen depletion in the Gan River.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- On the diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of cable bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Persistent flocks of diverse motile bacteria in long-term incubations of electron-conducting cable bacteria,Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Unraveling the rate-limiting step in microorganisms' mediation of denitrification and phosphorus absorption/transport processes in a highly regulated river-lake system.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Microbial succession in a marine sediment: Inferring interspecific microbial interactions with marine cable bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Droplet microfluidics-based high-throughput bacterial cultivation for validation of taxon pairs in microbial co-occurrence networks.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Network analysis reveals microbe-mediated impacts of aeration on deep sediment layer microbial communities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Perspectives on Microbial Electron Transfer Networks for Environmental Biotechnology.Frontiers in microbiology · 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
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Abstract
Profound biogeochemical responses of anoxic sediments to the fluctuation of dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration in overlaying water are often observed, despite oxygen having a limited permeability in sediments. This contradiction is indicative of previously unrecognized mechanism that bridges the oxic and anoxic sediment layers. Using sediments from an urban river suffering from long-term polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contamination, we analyzed the physicochemical and microbial responses to artificially elevated DO (eDO) in the overlying water over 9 weeks of incubation. Significant changes in key environmental parameters and microbial diversity were detected over the 0-6 cm sediment depth, along with accelerated degradation of PAHs, despite that eDO only increased the porewater DO in the millimeter subfacial layer. The dynamics of physicochemical and microbial properties coincided well with significantly increased presence of centimeter-long sulfide-oxidizing cable bacteria filaments under eDO, and were predominantly driven by cable bacteria metabolic activities. Phylogenetic ecological network analyses further revealed that eDO reinforced cable bacteria associated interspecific interactions with functional microorganisms such as sulfate reducers, PAHs degraders, and electroactive microbes, suggesting enhanced microbial syntrophy taking advantage of cable bacteria metabolism for the regeneration of SO
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