Small, round and ... magnetotactic 😄🧲🦠
These tiny spherical #bacteria use internal compasses called magnetosomes to navigate the Earth's magnetic field. Nature’s original #GPS! 🌍📍🤓
#microbiology #ScienceFacts #MicroSky
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Bio-electrochemical nitrogen removal in wastewater: Coupling anodic ammonium oxidation with hydrogenotrophic denitrification in a microbial electrolysis cell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great collaborative work #microbiology @ribesresearch.bsky.social @cuwelte.bsky.social and @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social on structure & modifications of Methyl coenzyme M reductase from #Methanoperedens, an freshwater anaerobic archaeal methanotroph #methane #nitrate #mcrA
Independently evolved extracellular electron transfer pathways in ecologically diverse Desulfobacterota
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Atomic resolution structures of the methane-activating enzyme in anaerobic methanotrophy reveal extensive post-translational modifications
#microbiology #methane #archaea
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Do we have any information about the abstracts submission dates?
Why does this matter? Electroactive microbes like D. acetexigens turn waste into electricity. Uconvering a new mechanism expands the toolkit for energy-efficient wastewater treatment, bioremediation, and low-carbon nanomaterial & bioelectronics synthesis.
We also found similar genetic blueprints across Desulfobacterota from diverse environments, suggesting this ability is more common in nature than previously recognized.
Pleased to share our publication in @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal, reporting a novel extracellular electron transfer mechanism combining multiple systems in one organism to respire minerals, including the Mtr, Omc, and Pcc pathways found in model electroactive organisms Geobacter and Shewanella