Thematic Issue
The metabolism of sulfur has been of interest to microbiologists for well over 100 years. This thematic issue covers sulfur oxidation, reduction and assimilation, and the organisms considered include autotrophs, heterotrophs and lithotrophs alike, demonstrating the diversity of sulfur metabolisms. All three domains of life are represented, with physiological and biochemical studies sitting alongside ecological and genomic investigations. Explore the collection of articles below, and discover the diversity of approaches now used to understand this complex element's even more complex metabolism.
Editorial
On 115 years of sulfur microbiology
Rich Boden
Commentaries
Nitrate reduction in sulfate reducing bacteria
Angeliki Marietou
A case in support of implementing innovative bio-processes in the metal mining industry
Irene Sánchez-Andrea, Alfons J. M. Stams, Jan Weijma, Paula Gonzalez Contreras, Henk Dijkman, Rene A. Rozendal, D. Barrie Johnson
MiniReview
Microbial impact on polysulphide dynamics in the environment
Alyssa J. Findlay
Research Articles
From CO2 to cell: energetic expense of creating biomass using the Calvin–Benson–Bassham and reductive citric acid cycles based on genome data
Mary Mangiapia, Kathleen Scott
RNA transcript sequencing reveals inorganic sulfur compound oxidation pathways in the acidophile Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans
Stephan Christel, Jimmy Fridlund, Antoine Buetti-Dinh, Moritz Buck, Elizabeth L. Watkin, Mark Dopson
A sulphide: quinone oxidoreductase from Chlorobaculum tepidum displays unusual kinetic properties
Kevin E. Shuman, Thomas E. Hanson
Microbial oxidative sulfur metabolism: biochemical evidence of the membrane-bound heterodisulfide reductase-like complex of the bacterium Aquifex aeolicus
Souhela Boughanemi, Jordan Lyonnet, Pascale Infossi, Marielle Bauzan, Artémis Kosta, Sabrina Lignon, Marie-Thérèse Giudici-Orticoni, Marianne Guiral
Diverse sulfur metabolisms from two subterranean sulfidic spring systems
Karen Rossmassler, Thomas E. Hanson, Barbara J. Campbell
Degradation and emission of carbonyl sulfide, an atmospheric trace gas, by fungi isolated from forest soil
Yoshihito Masaki, Rie Ozawa, Kei Kageyama, Yoko Katayama
ydjN encodes an S-sulfocysteine transporter required by Escherichia coli for growth on S-sulfocysteine as a sulfur source
Shunsuke Tamazaki, Kensuke Takei, Gen Nonaka
Degradation of carbonyl sulfide by Actinomycetes and detection of clade D of β-class carbonic anhydrase
Takahiro Ogawa, Hiromi Kato, Mitsuru Higashide, Mami Nishimiya, Yoko Katayama
Fractionation of sulfur and hydrogen isotopes in Desulgovibrio vulgaris with perturbed DsrC expression
William D. Leavitt, Sofia S. Venceslau, Inês A.C. Pereira, David T. Johnston, Alexander S. Bradley
Enrichment of sulfidogenic bacteria from the human intestinal tract
Yuan Feng, Alfons J.M. Stams, Willem M. de Vos, Irene Sánchez-Andrea
Occurrence and biosynthesis of 3-mercaptopropionic acid in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii
Kylie D. Allen, Robert H. White
A novel isolate and widespread abundance of the candidate alphaproteobacterial order (Ellin 329), in southern Appalacian peatlands
Austin B. Harbison, Michael A. Carson, Louis J. Lamit, Nathan Basiliko, Suzanna L. Bräuer
Solid and liquid media for isolating and cultivating acidophilic and acid-tolerant sulfate-reducing bacteria
Ivan Ňancucheo, Owen F. Rowe, Sabrina Hedrich, D. Barrie Johnson
TsdC, a unique lipoprotein from Wolinella succinogenes that enhances tetrathionate reductase activity of TsdA
Julia M. Kurth, Anja Schuster, Waldemar Seel, Stefanie Herrestal, Jörg Simon, Christiane Dahl
