SynthesisFEMS microbiology reviews2022
How low can they go? Aerobic respiration by microorganisms under apparent anoxia.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Combating Bacterial Infection with Metabolism-Regulating Nanomaterials.International journal of nanomedicine · 2026Review
- Infections as ecosystems: community metabolic interactions in microbial pathogenesis.Infection and immunity · 2025Review
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- Environmental Gradients and Conservation Status Determine the Structure and Carbon-Related Metabolic Potential of the Prokaryotic Communities of Mediterranean Inland Saline Shallow Lakes.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Lipid biomarkers reveal dominance of aerobic methanotrophy in a continental serpentinizing system.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- A respiro-fermentative strategy to survive nanoxia in Acidobacterium capsulatum.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Widespread occurrence of dissolved oxygen anomalies, aerobic microbes, and oxygen-producing metabolic pathways in apparently anoxic environments.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Review
- Assessing the nutrient removal performance from rice-crayfish paddy fields by an ecological ditch-wetland system.Heliyon · 2024Article
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Abstract
Oxygen (O2) is the ultimate oxidant on Earth and its respiration confers such an energetic advantage that microorganisms have evolved the capacity to scavenge O2 down to nanomolar concentrations. The respiration of O2 at extremely low levels is proving to be common to diverse microbial taxa, including organisms formerly considered strict anaerobes. Motivated by recent advances in O2 sensing and DNA/RNA sequencing technologies, we performed a systematic review of environmental metatranscriptomes revealing that microbial respiration of O2 at nanomolar concentrations is ubiquitous and drives microbial activity in seemingly anoxic aquatic habitats. These habitats were key to the early evolution of life and are projected to become more prevalent in the near future due to anthropogenic-driven environmental change. Here, we summarize our current understanding of aerobic microbial respiration under apparent anoxia, including novel processes, their underlying biochemical pathways, the involved microorganisms, and their environmental importance and evolutionary origin.
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