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ArticleNature communications2025

DNA viral community enhances microbial carbon fixation capacity via auxiliary metabolic genes in contaminated soils.

Jia-Nan Lu, Yuanqing Chao, Li Tian, Xi Zhong, Ziwu Chen, Huan He, Bi Huang, Mengyao Li, Zekai Feng, Huayuan Feng and 18 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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28 authors.

Jia-Nan LuSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Yuanqing ChaoSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. chaoyuanq@mail.sysu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0534-346X
Li TianSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Xi ZhongSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Ziwu ChenSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Huan HeGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Bi HuangState Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Mengyao LiSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Zekai FengSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Huayuan FengSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Chang HuSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Shunkang ZhouGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Liqi ZhangSchool of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China.
Yulu YangSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhepu RuanGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7713-9399
Kengbo DingSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Ying YangSchool of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China.
Ke YuanSchool of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China.
Wenshen LiuSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Hua QiGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural & Rural Pollution Abatement and Environmental Safety, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Yue CaoSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9444-4707
Ying-Heng FeiSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China.
Ning LingState Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
Shizhong WangSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Ye-Tao TangSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Tiangang LuanState Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhihong XuSchool of Environment and Science-Chemistry and Forensic Science, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Rongliang QiuSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. qiurl@scau.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9469-5274

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil is the largest organic matter repository on land and the virosphere is an essential component of soil carbon cycling. While a few carbon-related auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) in viruses are reported to potentially influence the hosts, the effects of virus-host interactions on soil carbon fixation, particularly in carbon-deficient contaminated soils, need further validation. Here, we explore the impact of viruses on carbon fixation in contaminated soils from 58 metal mining areas across eastern China. Eleven different functional categories of carbon fixation AMGs are identified via metagenomic analysis in 323 contaminated soil samples. Enzymatic activities of three key AMGs (i.e., rbcL, ppdK and TKT) are experimentally characterized, indicating the positive role of these genes in carbon fixation. Furthermore, transcriptomic sequencing reveals that after active virus inoculation the carbon fixation genes significantly up-regulate (~73%, p < 0.05). In mesocosms with stable isotope labeling, the accumulation of

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Carbon CycleDNA, ViralDNA VirusesSoil MicrobiologySoil PollutantsCarbonChinaMetagenomeMetagenomicsMiningSoilCarbonDNA, ViralSoilSoil Pollutants

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