ArticleEnvironmental microbiology2022
Microbial succession in a marine sediment: Inferring interspecific microbial interactions with marine cable bacteria.
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- Multidisciplinary methodologies used in the study of cable bacteria.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- Cable Bacteria and Their Biotechnological Application.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2025Review
- Sulfate-reducing bacteria unearthed: ecological functions of the diverse prokaryotic group in terrestrial environments.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Review
- On the diversity, phylogeny and biogeography of cable bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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- Microbial succession in a marine sediment: Inferring interspecific microbial interactions with marine cable bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Biogeochemical impacts of fish farming on coastal sediments: Insights into the functional role of cable bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Cable bacteria are long, filamentous, multicellular bacteria that grow in marine sediments and couple sulfide oxidation to oxygen reduction over centimetre-scale distances via long-distance electron transport. Cable bacteria can strongly modify biogeochemical cycling and may affect microbial community networks. Here we examine interspecific interactions with marine cable bacteria (Ca. Electrothrix) by monitoring the succession of 16S rRNA amplicons (DNA and RNA) and cell abundance across depth and time, contrasting sediments with and without cable bacteria growth. In the oxic zone, cable bacteria activity was positively associated with abundant predatory bacteria (Bdellovibrionota, Myxococcota, Bradymonadales), indicating putative predation on cathodic cells. At suboxic depths, cable bacteria activity was positively associated with sulfate-reducing and magnetotactic bacteria, consistent with cable bacteria functioning as ecosystem engineers that modify their local biogeochemical environment, benefitting certain microbes. Cable bacteria activity was negatively associated with chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing Gammaproteobacteria (Thiogranum, Sedimenticola) at oxic depths, suggesting competition, and positively correlated with these taxa at suboxic depths, suggesting syntrophy and/or facilitation. These observations are consistent with chemoautotrophic sulfur oxidizers benefitting from an oxidizing potential imparted by cable bacteria at suboxic depths, possibly by using cable bacteria as acceptors for electrons or electron equivalents, but by an as yet enigmatic mechanism.
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