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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

The diversity and evolution of microbial dissimilatory phosphite oxidation.

Sophia D Ewens, Alexa F S Gomberg, Tyler P Barnum, Mikayla A Borton, Hans K Carlson, Kelly C Wrighton, John D Coates

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Lithosyntrophy: Obligate syntrophy in a phosphite-oxidizing, methanogenic culture.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Widespread promiscuous alkaline phosphatases underscore ancient microbial phosphite utilization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. The microbial phosphorus cycle in aquatic ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2025
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  10. Evolution of phosphate scouting in the terrestrial biosphere.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
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  14. AMP-dependent phosphite dehydrogenase, a phosphorylating enzyme in dissimilatory phosphite oxidation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  17. Routes to reduction of phosphate by high-energy events.Communications earth & environment · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Sophia D EwensDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-6978-0178
Alexa F S GombergDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-3596-9191
Tyler P BarnumDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Mikayla A BortonDepartment of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
Hans K CarlsonEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720.ORCID 0000-0002-1583-5313
Kelly C WrightonDepartment of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.ORCID 0000-0003-0434-4217
John D CoatesDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720; jdcoates@berkeley.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phosphite is the most energetically favorable chemotrophic electron donor known, with a half-cell potential (

Indexed as

BiodiversityEvolution, MolecularAnaerobiosisBacteriaBacterial ProteinsCarbon DioxideChemoautotrophic GrowthEnergy MetabolismGenetic VariationGenome, BacterialMicrobiotaOxidation-ReductionPhosphitesPhylogenyWastewaterBacterial ProteinsCarbon DioxidePhosphitesWastewaterCO2 fixationDesulfotignumglycine reductive pathwayphosphitePhosphitivorax

Identifiers

PMID33688048
PMCPMC7980464

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