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Zhang L, Lan S, Hao S, Dong T, Peng Y, Yang J. Microbial driving mechanism for simultaneous removal of nitrogen and phosphorus in a pure anammox reactor under ferrous ion exposure. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 362:127844. [PMID: 36031131 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2022] [Revised: 08/18/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The mechanisms of Fe2+ on nitrogen and phosphorus removal and functional bacterial competition in anammox systems was investigated. Under 0.12 mM Fe2+, the performance of nitrogen and phosphorus removal increased by 10.08 % and 151.91 %, respectively, compared with the control stage. Phosphorus removal was achieved through extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) induced biomineralization to form Fe-P minerals, and functional group COC in EPS played a critical role. T-EPSs was the major nucleation site due to it maintaining the supersaturated state (saturation index > 0) of Fe-P minerals for a long time. Population succession showed that Fe2+ weakened the competition between heterotrophic denitrifier (Denitrasoma) and anammox microbe (Candidatus Brocadia) for space and substrates, which was favorable for the enrichment of anammox biomass. Moreover, the variation in gene abundance (such as Hao, Cyt c, and Nir) indicated that Fe2+ improved electron behaviors (generation, transport, and consumption) during the nitrogen metabolism of anammox systems.
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- Li Zhang
- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Technology, Key Laboratory of Beijing for Water Quality Science and Water Environment Recovery Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- Shuifa Shandong Water Development Group Co. Ltd., Shandong 274200, China
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Smeulders MJ, Peeters SH, van Alen T, de Bruijckere D, Nuijten GHL, op den Camp HJM, Jetten MSM, van Niftrik L. Nutrient Limitation Causes Differential Expression of Transport- and Metabolism Genes in the Compartmentalized Anammox Bacterium Kuenenia stuttgartiensis. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1959. [PMID: 32903544 PMCID: PMC7438415 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/24/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria, members of the "Candidatus Brocadiaceae" family, play an important role in the nitrogen cycle and are estimated to be responsible for about half of the oceanic nitrogen loss to the atmosphere. Anammox bacteria combine ammonium with nitrite and produce dinitrogen gas via the intermediates nitric oxide and hydrazine (anammox reaction) while nitrate is formed as a by-product. These reactions take place in a specialized, membrane-enclosed compartment called the anammoxosome. Therefore, the substrates ammonium, nitrite and product nitrate have to cross the outer-, cytoplasmic-, and anammoxosome membranes to enter or exit the anammoxosome. The genomes of all anammox species harbor multiple copies of ammonium-, nitrite-, and nitrate transporter genes. Here we investigated how the distinct genes for ammonium-, nitrite-, and nitrate- transport were expressed during substrate limitation in membrane bioreactors. Transcriptome analysis of Kuenenia stuttgartiensis planktonic cells showed that four of the seven ammonium transporter homologs and two of the nine nitrite transporter homologs were significantly upregulated during ammonium-limited growth, while another ammonium transporter- and four nitrite transporter homologs were upregulated in nitrite limited growth conditions. The two nitrate transporters were expressed to similar levels in both conditions. In addition, genes encoding enzymes involved in the anammox reaction were differentially expressed, with those using nitrite as a substrate being upregulated under nitrite limited growth and those using ammonium as a substrate being upregulated during ammonium limitation. Taken together, these results give a first insight in the potential role of the multiple nutrient transporters in regulating transport of substrates and products in and out of the compartmentalized anammox cell.
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Mundinger AB, Lawson CE, Jetten MSM, Koch H, Lücker S. Cultivation and Transcriptional Analysis of a Canonical Nitrospira Under Stable Growth Conditions. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1325. [PMID: 31333593 PMCID: PMC6606698 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 05/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) are vital players in the global nitrogen cycle that convert nitrite to nitrate during the second step of nitrification. Within this functional guild, members of the genus Nitrospira are most widespread, phylogenetically diverse, and physiologically versatile, and they drive nitrite oxidation in many natural and engineered ecosystems. Despite their ecological and biotechnological importance, our understanding of their energy metabolism is still limited. A major bottleneck for a detailed biochemical characterization of Nitrospira is biomass production, since they are slow-growing and fastidious microorganisms. In this study, we cultivated Nitrospira moscoviensis under nitrite-oxidizing conditions in a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) system. This cultivation setup enabled accurate control of physicochemical parameters and avoided fluctuating levels of their energy substrate nitrite, thus ensuring constant growth conditions and furthermore allowing continuous biomass harvesting. Transcriptomic analyses under these conditions supported the predicted core metabolism of N. moscoviensis, including expression of all proteins required for carbon fixation via the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle, assimilatory nitrite reduction, and the complete respiratory chain. Here, simultaneous expression of multiple copies of respiratory complexes I and III suggested functional differentiation. The transcriptome also indicated that the previously assumed membrane-bound nitrite oxidoreductase (NXR), the enzyme catalyzing nitrite oxidation, is formed by three soluble subunits. Overall, the transcriptomic data greatly refined our understanding of the metabolism of Nitrospira. Moreover, the application of a CSTR to cultivate Nitrospira is an important foundation for future proteomic and biochemical characterizations, which are crucial for a better understanding of these fascinating microorganisms.
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- Aniela B Mundinger
- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Annavajhala MK, Kapoor V, Santo-Domingo J, Chandran K. Structural and Functional Interrogation of Selected Biological Nitrogen Removal Systems in the United States, Denmark, and Singapore Using Shotgun Metagenomics. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2544. [PMID: 30416492 PMCID: PMC6212598 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 10/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Conventional biological nitrogen removal (BNR), comprised of nitrification and denitrification, is traditionally employed in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to prevent eutrophication in receiving water bodies. More recently, the combination of selective ammonia to nitrite oxidation (nitritation) and autotrophic anaerobic ammonia oxidation (anammox), collectively termed deammonification, has also emerged as a possible energy- and cost-effective BNR alternative. Herein, we analyzed microbial diversity and functional potential within 13 BNR processes in the United States, Denmark, and Singapore operated with varying reactor configuration, design, and operational parameters. Using next-generation sequencing and metagenomics, gene-coding regions were aligned against a custom protein database expanded to include all published aerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB), nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB), anaerobic ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AMX), and complete ammonia oxidizing bacteria (CMX). Overall contributions of these N-cycle bacteria to the total functional potential of each reactor was determined, as well as that of several organisms associated with denitrification and/or structural integrity of microbial aggregates (biofilm or granules). The potential for these engineered processes to foster a broad spectrum of microbial catabolic, anabolic, and carbon assimilation transformations was elucidated. Seeded sidestream DEMON® deammonification systems and single-stage nitritation-anammox moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs) and a mainstream Cleargreen reactor designed to enrich in AOB and AMX showed lower enrichment in AMX functionality than an enriched two-stage nitritation-anammox MBBR system treating mainstream wastewater. Conventional BNR systems in Singapore and the United States had distinct metagenomes, especially relating to AOB. A hydrocyclone process designed to recycle biomass granules for mainstream BNR contained almost identical structural and functional characteristics in the overflow, underflow, and inflow of mixed liquor (ALT) rather than the expected selective enrichment of specific nitrifying or AMX organisms. Inoculum used to seed a sidestream deammonification process unexpectedly contained <10% of total coding regions assigned to AMX. These results suggest the operating conditions of engineered bioprocesses shape the resident microbial structure and function far more than the bioprocess configuration itself. We also highlight the advantage of a systems- and metagenomics-based interrogation of both the microbial structure and potential function therein over targeting of individual populations or specific genes.
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- Medini K. Annavajhala
- Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, United States
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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Lin X, Wang Y, Ma X, Yan Y, Wu M, Bond PL, Guo J. Evidence of differential adaptation to decreased temperature by anammox bacteria. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:3514-3528. [PMID: 30051608 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2017] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Low temperature is recognized as one of the major barriers for the application of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process to treat mainstream wastewater. Studies are yet to reveal the underlying biological limitations and molecular mechanisms associated with the inhibition of low temperature on the anammox process. In this study, metaproteomics was used to examine proteome modulation patterns of the anammox community occurring at different temperatures. The anammox community remarkably altered their proteomes when the temperature decreased from 35 °C to 20 °C. This was especially for proteins involved in energy conversion, transcription and translation and inorganic ion transport. However, at 15 °C the anammox activities became distinctly inhibited, and there was evidence of energy limitations and severe stress in Candidatus Kuenenia and to a lesser degree in Candidatus Brocadia. Candidatus Jettenia exhibited more changes in its proteome at 15 °C. From the proteomes, at the lower temperatures there was evidence of stress caused by toxic nitrogen compounds or reactive oxygen species in the anammox bacteria. Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (HAO)-like proteins and an oxidative stress response protein (a catalase) were in high abundance to potentially ameliorate these inhibitory effects. This study offers metaproteomic insight into the anammox community-based physiological response to decreasing temperatures.
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- Ximao Lin
- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), The University of Queensland, QLD, St. Lucia, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), The University of Queensland, QLD, St. Lucia, 4072, Australia
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Yang S, Yao G. Simultaneous removal of concentrated organics, nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients by an oxygen-limited membrane bioreactor. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0202179. [PMID: 30161154 PMCID: PMC6116941 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2018] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Simultaneous removal of organics, nitrogen and phosphorus was achieved in a bench-scale oxygen-limited membrane bioreactor (OLMBR). Due to the limited dissolved oxygen (~ 0.2 mg/L equilibrium concentration) and the increased sludge concentration associated with the hollow fiber membrane, the OLMBR was endowed with an excellent performance on the removal of multi-pollutants. The optimized removal efficiencies of COD, nitrogen (N), and total phosphorus (TP) were approximately 95.5%, 90.0% and 82.6%, respectively (COD/N/P = 500:10:1, influent loading = 5.0 kg COD·m-3·d-1, 35°C). Mass balance and bacterial community analysis indicated that the removal of organic carbon was mainly achieved by the methane production process (67.6%). Short-cut nitrification-denitrification (SCND) was observed as the primary denitrification process in the OLMBR, in which the concentrated organic compounds served as the electron donors for denitrification. Nitrosomonas was observed to be the predominant ammonium-oxidizing bacteria, while nitrite-oxidizing bacteria were almost absent in the microbial community as revealed by the high-throughput sequencing technique. In addition, Euryarchaeota and Candidatus, which were well associated with the process of denitrifying anaerobic methane oxidation, were also detected. Sludge absorption was the main route for TP removal in the OLMBR, and the production of PH3 gas also accounted for 19.4% of TP removal. This study suggested that the interception effect of hollow fiber membrane provided higher sludge concentration, therefore offering more bacteria for pollutant removal. The OLMBR can be used for simultaneous removal of highly concentrated organics and nutrients in livestock and poultry breeding wastewater.
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- Shengyun Yang
- College of Architecture and Environment, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- College of Architecture and Environment, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Filamentous Giant Beggiatoaceae from the Guaymas Basin Are Capable of both Denitrification and Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:AEM.02860-17. [PMID: 29802192 PMCID: PMC6052272 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02860-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Whether large sulfur bacteria of the family Beggiatoaceae reduce NO3− to N2 via denitrification or to NH4+ via DNRA has been debated in the literature for more than 25 years. We resolve this debate by showing that certain members of the Beggiatoaceae use both metabolic pathways. This is important for the ecological role of these bacteria, as N2 production removes bioavailable nitrogen from the ecosystem, whereas NH4+ production retains it. For this reason, the topic of environmental controls on the competition for NO3− between N2-producing and NH4+-producing bacteria is of great scientific interest. Recent experiments on the competition between these two types of microorganisms have demonstrated that the balance between electron donor and electron acceptor availability strongly influences the end product of NO3− reduction. Our results suggest that this is also the case at the even more fundamental level of enzyme system regulation within a single organism. Filamentous large sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (FLSB) of the family Beggiatoaceae are globally distributed aquatic bacteria that can control geochemical fluxes from the sediment to the water column through their metabolic activity. FLSB mats from hydrothermal sediments of Guaymas Basin, Mexico, typically have a “fried-egg” appearance, with orange filaments dominating near the center and wider white filaments at the periphery, likely reflecting areas of higher and lower sulfide fluxes, respectively. These FLSB store large quantities of intracellular nitrate that they use to oxidize sulfide. By applying a combination of 15N-labeling techniques and genome sequence analysis, we demonstrate that the white FLSB filaments were capable of reducing their intracellular nitrate stores to both nitrogen gas and ammonium by denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA), respectively. On the other hand, our combined results show that the orange filaments were primarily capable of DNRA. Microsensor profiles through a laboratory-incubated white FLSB mat revealed a 2- to 3-mm vertical separation between the oxic and sulfidic zones. Denitrification was most intense just below the oxic zone, as shown by the production of nitrous oxide following exposure to acetylene, which blocks nitrous oxide reduction to nitrogen gas. Below this zone, a local pH maximum coincided with sulfide oxidation, consistent with nitrate reduction by DNRA. The balance between internally and externally available electron acceptors (nitrate) and electron donors (reduced sulfur) likely controlled the end product of nitrate reduction both between orange and white FLSB mats and between different spatial and geochemical niches within the white FLSB mat. IMPORTANCE Whether large sulfur bacteria of the family Beggiatoaceae reduce NO3− to N2 via denitrification or to NH4+ via DNRA has been debated in the literature for more than 25 years. We resolve this debate by showing that certain members of the Beggiatoaceae use both metabolic pathways. This is important for the ecological role of these bacteria, as N2 production removes bioavailable nitrogen from the ecosystem, whereas NH4+ production retains it. For this reason, the topic of environmental controls on the competition for NO3− between N2-producing and NH4+-producing bacteria is of great scientific interest. Recent experiments on the competition between these two types of microorganisms have demonstrated that the balance between electron donor and electron acceptor availability strongly influences the end product of NO3− reduction. Our results suggest that this is also the case at the even more fundamental level of enzyme system regulation within a single organism.
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in ‘t Zandt MH, de Jong AEE, Slomp CP, Jetten MSM. The hunt for the most-wanted chemolithoautotrophic spookmicrobes. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2018; 94:4966976. [PMID: 29873717 PMCID: PMC5989612 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Microorganisms are the drivers of biogeochemical methane and nitrogen cycles. Essential roles of chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms in these cycles were predicted long before their identification. Dedicated enrichment procedures, metagenomics surveys and single-cell technologies have enabled the identification of several new groups of most-wanted spookmicrobes, including novel methoxydotrophic methanogens that produce methane from methylated coal compounds and acetoclastic 'Candidatus Methanothrix paradoxum', which is active in oxic soils. The resultant energy-rich methane can be oxidized via a suite of electron acceptors. Recently, 'Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens' ANME-2d archaea and 'Candidatus Methylomirabilis oxyfera' bacteria were enriched on nitrate and nitrite under anoxic conditions with methane as an electron donor. Although 'Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens' and other ANME archaea can use iron citrate as an electron acceptor in batch experiments, the quest for anaerobic methane oxidizers that grow via iron reduction continues. In recent years, the nitrogen cycle has been expanded by the discovery of various ammonium-oxidizing prokaryotes, including ammonium-oxidizing archaea, versatile anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria and complete ammonium-oxidizing (comammox) Nitrospira bacteria. Several biogeochemical studies have indicated that ammonium conversion occurs under iron-reducing conditions, but thus far no microorganism has been identified. Ultimately, iron-reducing and sulfate-dependent ammonium-oxidizing microorganisms await discovery.
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- Michiel H in ‘t Zandt
- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Earth System Science Center, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Earth System Science Center, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Netherlands Earth System Science Center, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Earth Sciences, Geochemistry, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Netherlands Earth System Science Center, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Soehngen Institute of Anaerobic Microbiology, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Haase D, Hermann B, Einsle O, Simon J. Epsilonproteobacterial hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (
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Hao): characterization of a ‘missing link’ in the multihaem cytochrome
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family. Mol Microbiol 2017; 105:127-138. [DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- Doreen Haase
- Microbial Energy Conversion and Biotechnology, Department of BiologyTechnische Universität DarmstadtSchnittspahnstraße 1064287Darmstadt Germany
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- Lehrstuhl Biochemie, Institut für BiochemieAlbert‐Ludwigs‐Universität FreiburgAlbertstrasse 2179104Freiburg Germany
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- Lehrstuhl Biochemie, Institut für BiochemieAlbert‐Ludwigs‐Universität FreiburgAlbertstrasse 2179104Freiburg Germany
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- Microbial Energy Conversion and Biotechnology, Department of BiologyTechnische Universität DarmstadtSchnittspahnstraße 1064287Darmstadt Germany
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Kartal B, Keltjens JT. Anammox Biochemistry: a Tale of Heme c Proteins. Trends Biochem Sci 2016; 41:998-1011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2016.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2016] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 08/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Membrane-bound electron transport systems of an anammox bacterium: A complexome analysis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2016; 1857:1694-704. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2016.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Revised: 07/14/2016] [Accepted: 07/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Oshiki M, Ali M, Shinyako-Hata K, Satoh H, Okabe S. Hydroxylamine-dependent anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) by “Candidatus
Brocadia sinica”. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:3133-43. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2014] [Accepted: 04/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Mamoru Oshiki
- Department of Civil Engineering; National Institute of Technology, Nagaoka College; Nagaoka Niigata 940-8532 Japan
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- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering; Hokkaido University; North-13, West-8 Sapporo Hokkaido 060-8628 Japan
- Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),Thuwal; 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Tokyo Engineering Consultants Co., Ltd., Kasumigaseki, Chioyadaku, Tokyo 100-0013, Japan
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- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering; Hokkaido University; North-13, West-8 Sapporo Hokkaido 060-8628 Japan
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- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering; Hokkaido University; North-13, West-8 Sapporo Hokkaido 060-8628 Japan
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Immunogold Localization of Key Metabolic Enzymes in the Anammoxosome and on the Tubule-Like Structures of Kuenenia stuttgartiensis. J Bacteriol 2015; 197:2432-41. [PMID: 25962914 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00186-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2015] [Accepted: 05/01/2015] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria oxidize ammonium with nitrite as the terminal electron acceptor to form dinitrogen gas in the absence of oxygen. Anammox bacteria have a compartmentalized cell plan with a central membrane-bound "prokaryotic organelle" called the anammoxosome. The anammoxosome occupies most of the cell volume, has a curved membrane, and contains conspicuous tubule-like structures of unknown identity and function. It was suggested previously that the catalytic reactions of the anammox pathway occur in the anammoxosome, and that proton motive force was established across its membrane. Here, we used antibodies raised against five key enzymes of the anammox catabolism to determine their cellular location. The antibodies were raised against purified native hydroxylamine oxidoreductase-like protein kustc0458 with its redox partner kustc0457, hydrazine dehydrogenase (HDH; kustc0694), hydroxylamine oxidase (HOX; kustc1061), nitrite oxidoreductase (NXR; kustd1700/03/04), and hydrazine synthase (HZS; kuste2859-61) of the anammox bacterium Kuenenia stuttgartiensis. We determined that all five protein complexes were exclusively located inside the anammoxosome matrix. Four of the protein complexes did not appear to form higher-order protein organizations. However, the present data indicated for the first time that NXR is part of the tubule-like structures, which may stretch the whole length of the anammoxosome. These findings support the anammoxosome as the locus of catabolic reactions of the anammox pathway. IMPORTANCE Anammox bacteria are environmentally relevant microorganisms that contribute significantly to the release of fixed nitrogen in nature. Furthermore, the anammox process is applied for nitrogen removal from wastewater as an environment-friendly and cost-effective technology. These microorganisms feature a unique cellular organelle, the anammoxosome, which was proposed to contain the energy metabolism of the cell and tubule-like structures with hitherto unknown function. Here, we purified five native enzymes catalyzing key reactions in the anammox metabolism and raised antibodies against these in order to localize them within the cell. We showed that all enzymes were located within the anammoxosome, and nitrite oxidoreductase was located exclusively at the tubule-like structures, providing the first insights into the function of these subcellular structures.
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- Luisa B. Maia
- REQUIMTE/CQFB, Departamento
de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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- REQUIMTE/CQFB, Departamento
de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
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Rusch A, Gaidos E. Nitrogen-cycling bacteria and archaea in the carbonate sediment of a coral reef. GEOBIOLOGY 2013; 11:472-484. [PMID: 23849004 DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2013] [Accepted: 06/10/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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In the coarse-grained carbonate sediments of coral reefs, advective porewater flow and the respiration of organic matter establish redox zones that are the scene of microbially mediated transformations of N compounds. To investigate the geobiology of N cycling in reef sediments, the benthic microbiota of Checker Reef in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, were surveyed for candidate nitrate reducers, ammonifying nitrite reducers, aerobic and anaerobic ammonia oxidizers (anammox) by identifying phylotypes of their key metabolic genes (napA, narG, nrfA, amoA) and ribotypes (unique RNA sequences) of anammox-like 16S rRNA. Putative proteobacteria with the catalytic potential for nitrate reduction were identified in oxic, interfacial and anoxic habitats. The estimated richness of napA (≥202 in anoxic sediment) and narG (≥373 and ≥441 in oxic and interfacial sediment, respectively) indicates a diverse guild of nitrate reducers. The guild of nrfA hosts in interfacial reef sediment was dominated by Vibrio species. The identified members of the aerobic ammonium oxidizing guild (amoA hosts) were Crenarchaeota or close relatives of Nitrosomonadales. Putative anammox bacteria were detected in the RNA pool of Checker Reef sediment. More than half of these ribotypes show ≥90% identity with homologous sequences of Scalindua spp., while no evidence was found for members of the genera Brocadia or Kuenenia. In addition to exploring the diversity of these four nitrogen-cycling microbial guilds in coral reef sediments, the abundances of aerobic ammonium oxidizers (amoA), nitrite oxidizers (nxrAB), ammonifying nitrite reducers (nrfA) and denitrifiers (nosZ) were estimated using real-time PCR. Representatives of all targeted guilds were detected, suggesting that most processes of the biogeochemical N cycle can be catalyzed by the benthic microbiota of tropical coral reefs.
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- A Rusch
- Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
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Cell biology of unique anammox bacteria that contain an energy conserving prokaryotic organelle. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 104:489-97. [PMID: 23929088 DOI: 10.1007/s10482-013-9990-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Anammox bacteria obtain their energy for growth from the anaerobic oxidation of ammonium with nitrite to dinitrogen gas. This property has made anammox bacteria very valuable for industry where they are applied for the removal of nitrogen compounds from industrial and domestic wastewaters. Anammox bacteria are also important in nature where they contribute significantly to oceanic nitrogen loss. Further, anammox bacteria have similarities to both Archaea and Eukarya, making them extremely interesting from a cell biological perspective. The anammox cell does not conform to the typical prokaryotic cell plan: single bilayer membranes divide the anammox cell into three distinct cellular compartments that possibly also have distinct cellular functions. The innermost and largest compartment, the anammoxosome, is the location of the energy metabolism. The middle compartment, the riboplasm, contains the nucleoid and ribosomes and thus has a genetic, information processing function. Finally, the outermost compartment, the paryphoplasm, has an as yet unknown function. In addition, anammox bacteria are proposed to have an atypical cell wall devoid of both peptidoglycan and a typical outer membrane. Here, I review the current knowledge on the cell biology of this enigmatic group of bacteria.
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van de Vossenberg J, Woebken D, Maalcke WJ, Wessels HJCT, Dutilh BE, Kartal B, Janssen-Megens EM, Roeselers G, Yan J, Speth D, Gloerich J, Geerts W, van der Biezen E, Pluk W, Francoijs KJ, Russ L, Lam P, Malfatti SA, Tringe SG, Haaijer SCM, Op den Camp HJM, Stunnenberg HG, Amann R, Kuypers MMM, Jetten MSM. The metagenome of the marine anammox bacterium 'Candidatus Scalindua profunda' illustrates the versatility of this globally important nitrogen cycle bacterium. Environ Microbiol 2013; 15:1275-89. [PMID: 22568606 PMCID: PMC3655542 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02774.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2012] [Revised: 04/11/2012] [Accepted: 04/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria are responsible for a significant portion of the loss of fixed nitrogen from the oceans, making them important players in the global nitrogen cycle. To date, marine anammox bacteria found in marine water columns and sediments worldwide belong almost exclusively to the 'Candidatus Scalindua' species, but the molecular basis of their metabolism and competitive fitness is presently unknown. We applied community sequencing of a marine anammox enrichment culture dominated by 'Candidatus Scalindua profunda' to construct a genome assembly, which was subsequently used to analyse the most abundant gene transcripts and proteins. In the S. profunda assembly, 4756 genes were annotated, and only about half of them showed the highest identity to the only other anammox bacterium of which a metagenome assembly had been constructed so far, the freshwater 'Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis'. In total, 2016 genes of S. profunda could not be matched to the K. stuttgartiensis metagenome assembly at all, and a similar number of genes in K.stuttgartiensis could not be found in S. profunda. Most of these genes did not have a known function but 98 expressed genes could be attributed to oligopeptide transport, amino acid metabolism, use of organic acids and electron transport. On the basis of the S. profunda metagenome, and environmental metagenome data, we observed pronounced differences in the gene organization and expression of important anammox enzymes, such as hydrazine synthase (HzsAB), nitrite reductase (NirS) and inorganic nitrogen transport proteins. Adaptations of Scalindua to the substrate limitation of the ocean may include highly expressed ammonium, nitrite and oligopeptide transport systems and pathways for the transport, oxidation, and assimilation of small organic compounds that may allow a more versatile lifestyle contributing to the competitive fitness of Scalindua in the marine realm.
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- Jack van de Vossenberg
- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyCelsiusstrasse 1, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Nijmegen Centre for Mitochondrial Disorders, Nijmegen Proteomics Facility, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Genetic, Endocrine and Metabolic disease, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical CentreNijmegen, the Netherlands
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- CMBI, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical CentreNijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University NijmegenNijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Nijmegen Proteomics Facility, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Genetic, Endocrine and Metabolic disease, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical CentreNijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Nijmegen Proteomics Facility, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Genetic, Endocrine and Metabolic disease, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical CentreNijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University NijmegenNijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyCelsiusstrasse 1, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, Radboud University NijmegenNijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyCelsiusstrasse 1, Bremen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyCelsiusstrasse 1, Bremen, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, IWWR, Radboud University Nijmegen6525 AJ Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of TechnologyDelft, the Netherlands
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ten Brink F, Schoepp-Cothenet B, van Lis R, Nitschke W, Baymann F. Multiple Rieske/cytb complexes in a single organism. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2013; 1827:1392-406. [PMID: 23507620 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2012] [Revised: 03/01/2013] [Accepted: 03/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Most organisms contain a single Rieske/cytb complex. This enzyme can be integrated in any respiratory or photosynthetic electron transfer chain that is quinone-based and sufficiently energy rich to allow for the turnover of three enzymes - a quinol reductase, a Rieske/cytb complex and a terminal oxidase. Despite this universal usability of the enzyme a variety of phylogenetically distant organisms have multiple copies thereof and no reason for this redundancy is obvious. In this review we present an overview of the distribution of multiple copies among species and describe their properties from the scarce experimental results, analysis of their amino acid sequences and genomic context. We discuss the predicted redox properties of the Rieske cluster in relation to the nature of the pool quinone. It appears that acidophilic iron-oxidizing bacteria specialized one of their two copies for reverse electron transfer, archaeal Thermoprotei adapted their three copies to the interaction with different oxidases and several, phylogenetically unrelated species imported a second complex with a putative heme ci that may confer some yet to be determined properties to the complex. These hypothesis and all the more the so far completely unexplained cases call for further studies and we put forward a number of suggestions for future research that we hope to be stimulating for the field. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Respiratory complex III and related bc complexes.
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- F ten Brink
- BIP/UMR7281, FR3479, CNRS/AMU, 13 chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13009 Marseille, France
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Lücker S, Nowka B, Rattei T, Spieck E, Daims H. The Genome of Nitrospina gracilis Illuminates the Metabolism and Evolution of the Major Marine Nitrite Oxidizer. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:27. [PMID: 23439773 PMCID: PMC3578206 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2012] [Accepted: 02/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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In marine systems, nitrate is the major reservoir of inorganic fixed nitrogen. The only known biological nitrate-forming reaction is nitrite oxidation, but despite its importance, our knowledge of the organisms catalyzing this key process in the marine N-cycle is very limited. The most frequently encountered marine NOB are related to Nitrospina gracilis, an aerobic chemolithoautotrophic bacterium isolated from ocean surface waters. To date, limited physiological and genomic data for this organism were available and its phylogenetic affiliation was uncertain. In this study, the draft genome sequence of N. gracilis strain 3/211 was obtained. Unexpectedly for an aerobic organism, N. gracilis lacks classical reactive oxygen defense mechanisms and uses the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle for carbon fixation. These features indicate microaerophilic ancestry and are consistent with the presence of Nitrospina in marine oxygen minimum zones. Fixed carbon is stored intracellularly as glycogen, but genes for utilizing external organic carbon sources were not identified. N. gracilis also contains a full gene set for oxidative phosphorylation with oxygen as terminal electron acceptor and for reverse electron transport from nitrite to NADH. A novel variation of complex I may catalyze the required reverse electron flow to low-potential ferredoxin. Interestingly, comparative genomics indicated a strong evolutionary link between Nitrospina, the nitrite-oxidizing genus Nitrospira, and anaerobic ammonium oxidizers, apparently including the horizontal transfer of a periplasmically oriented nitrite oxidoreductase and other key genes for nitrite oxidation at an early evolutionary stage. Further, detailed phylogenetic analyses using concatenated marker genes provided evidence that Nitrospina forms a novel bacterial phylum, for which we propose the name Nitrospinae.
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- Sebastian Lücker
- Department of Microbial Ecology, Ecology Centre, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria
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The prokaryotic Mo/W-bisPGD enzymes family: a catalytic workhorse in bioenergetic. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2013; 1827:1048-85. [PMID: 23376630 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2013.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2012] [Revised: 01/21/2013] [Accepted: 01/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Over the past two decades, prominent importance of molybdenum-containing enzymes in prokaryotes has been put forward by studies originating from different fields. Proteomic or bioinformatic studies underpinned that the list of molybdenum-containing enzymes is far from being complete with to date, more than fifty different enzymes involved in the biogeochemical nitrogen, carbon and sulfur cycles. In particular, the vast majority of prokaryotic molybdenum-containing enzymes belong to the so-called dimethylsulfoxide reductase family. Despite its extraordinary diversity, this family is characterized by the presence of a Mo/W-bis(pyranopterin guanosine dinucleotide) cofactor at the active site. This review highlights what has been learned about the properties of the catalytic site, the modular variation of the structural organization of these enzymes, and their interplay with the isoprenoid quinones. In the last part, this review provides an integrated view of how these enzymes contribute to the bioenergetics of prokaryotes. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Metals in Bioenergetics and Biomimetics Systems.
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Kartal B, de Almeida NM, Maalcke WJ, Op den Camp HJM, Jetten MSM, Keltjens JT. How to make a living from anaerobic ammonium oxidation. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2013; 37:428-61. [PMID: 23210799 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6976.12014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 295] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2012] [Revised: 10/25/2012] [Accepted: 11/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria primarily grow by the oxidation of ammonium coupled to nitrite reduction, using CO2 as the sole carbon source. Although they were neglected for a long time, anammox bacteria are encountered in an enormous species (micro)diversity in virtually any anoxic environment that contains fixed nitrogen. It has even been estimated that about 50% of all nitrogen gas released into the atmosphere is made by these 'impossible' bacteria. Anammox catabolism most likely resides in a special cell organelle, the anammoxosome, which is surrounded by highly unusual ladder-like (ladderane) lipids. Ammonium oxidation and nitrite reduction proceed in a cyclic electron flow through two intermediates, hydrazine and nitric oxide, resulting in the generation of proton-motive force for ATP synthesis. Reduction reactions associated with CO2 fixation drain electrons from this cycle, and they are replenished by the oxidation of nitrite to nitrate. Besides ammonium or nitrite, anammox bacteria use a broad range of organic and inorganic compounds as electron donors. An analysis of the metabolic opportunities even suggests alternative chemolithotrophic lifestyles that are independent of these compounds. We note that current concepts are still largely hypothetical and put forward the most intriguing questions that need experimental answers.
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- Boran Kartal
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Institute of Wetland and Water Research, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Why orange Guaymas Basin Beggiatoa spp. are orange: single-filament-genome-enabled identification of an abundant octaheme cytochrome with hydroxylamine oxidase, hydrazine oxidase, and nitrite reductase activities. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012; 79:1183-90. [PMID: 23220958 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02538-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Orange, white, and yellow vacuolated Beggiatoaceae filaments are visually dominant members of microbial mats found near sea floor hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, with orange filaments typically concentrated toward the mat centers. No marine vacuolate Beggiatoaceae are yet in pure culture, but evidence to date suggests they are nitrate-reducing, sulfide-oxidizing bacteria. The nearly complete genome sequence of a single orange Beggiatoa ("Candidatus Maribeggiatoa") filament from a microbial mat sample collected in 2008 at a hydrothermal site in Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California, Mexico) was recently obtained. From this sequence, the gene encoding an abundant soluble orange-pigmented protein in Guaymas Basin mat samples (collected in 2009) was identified by microcapillary reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) nano-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (μLC-MS-MS) of a pigmented band excised from a denaturing polyacrylamide gel. The predicted protein sequence is related to a large group of octaheme cytochromes whose few characterized representatives are hydroxylamine or hydrazine oxidases. The protein was partially purified and shown by in vitro assays to have hydroxylamine oxidase, hydrazine oxidase, and nitrite reductase activities. From what is known of Beggiatoaceae physiology, nitrite reduction is the most likely in vivo role of the octaheme protein, but future experiments are required to confirm this tentative conclusion. Thus, while present-day genomic and proteomic techniques have allowed precise identification of an abundant mat protein, and its potential activities could be assayed, proof of its physiological role remains elusive in the absence of a pure culture that can be genetically manipulated.
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Hu Z, Speth DR, Francoijs KJ, Quan ZX, Jetten MSM. Metagenome Analysis of a Complex Community Reveals the Metabolic Blueprint of Anammox Bacterium "Candidatus Jettenia asiatica". Front Microbiol 2012; 3:366. [PMID: 23112795 PMCID: PMC3482989 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2012] [Accepted: 09/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria are key players in the global nitrogen cycle and responsible for significant global nitrogen loss. Moreover, the anammox process is widely implemented for nitrogen removal from wastewaters as a cost-effective and environment-friendly alternative to conventional nitrification-denitrification systems. Currently, five genera of anammox bacteria have been identified, together forming a deep-branching order in the Planctomycetes-Verrucomicrobium-Chlamydiae superphylum. Members of all genera have been detected in wastewater treatment plants and have been enriched in lab-scale bioreactors, but genome information is not yet available for all genera. Here we report the metagenomic analysis of a granular sludge anammox reactor dominated (∼50%) by “Candidatus Jettenia asiatica.” The metagenome was sequenced using both Illumina and 454 pyrosequencing. After de novo assembly 37,432 contigs with an average length of 571 nt were obtained. The contigs were then analyzed by BLASTx searches against the protein sequences of “Candidatus Kuenenia stuttgartiensis” and a set of 25 genes essential in anammox metabolism were detected. Additionally all reads were mapped to the genome of an anammox strain KSU-1 and de novo assembly was performed again using the reads that could be mapped on KSU-1. Using this approach, a gene encoding copper-containing nitrite reductase NirK was identified in the genome, instead of cytochrome cd1-type nitrite reductase (NirS, present in “Ca. Kuenenia stuttgartiensis” and “Ca. Scalindua profunda”). Finally, the community composition was investigated through MetaCluster analysis, 16S rRNA gene analysis and read mapping, which showed the presence of other important community members such as aerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, methanogens, and the denitrifying methanotroph “Ca. Methylomirabilis oxyfera”, indicating a possible active methane and nitrogen cycle in the bioreactor under the prevailing operational conditions.
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- Ziye Hu
- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Kartal B, van Niftrik L, Keltjens JT, Op den Camp HJM, Jetten MSM. Anammox--growth physiology, cell biology, and metabolism. Adv Microb Physiol 2012; 60:211-62. [PMID: 22633060 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-398264-3.00003-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria are the last major addition to the nitrogen-cycle (N-cycle). Because of the presumed inert nature of ammonium under anoxic conditions, the organisms were deemed to be nonexistent until about 15 years ago. They, however, appear to be present in virtually any anoxic place where fixed nitrogen (ammonium, nitrate, nitrite) is found. In various mar`ine ecosystems, anammox bacteria are a major or even the only sink for fixed nitrogen. According to current estimates, about 50% of all nitrogen gas released into the atmosphere is made by these bacteria. Besides this, the microorganisms may be very well suited to be applied as an efficient, cost-effective, and environmental-friendly alternative to conventional wastewater treatment for the removal of nitrogen. So far, nine different anammox species divided over five genera have been enriched, but none of these are in pure culture. This number is only a modest reflection of a continuum of species that is suggested by 16S rRNA analyses of environmental samples. In their environments, anammox bacteria thrive not just by competition, but rather by delicate metabolic interactions with other N-cycle organisms. Anammox bacteria owe their position in the N-cycle to their unique property to oxidize ammonium in the absence of oxygen. Recent research established that they do so by activating the compound into hydrazine (N(2)H(4)), using the oxidizing power of nitric oxide (NO). NO is produced by the reduction of nitrite, the terminal electron acceptor of the process. The forging of the N-N bond in hydrazine is catalyzed by hydrazine synthase, a fairly slow enzyme and its low activity possibly explaining the slow growth rates and long doubling times of the organisms. The oxidation of hydrazine results in the formation of the end product (N(2)), and electrons that are invested both in electron-transport phosphorylation and in the regeneration of the catabolic intermediates (N(2)H(4), NO). Next to this, the electrons provide the reducing power for CO(2) fixation. The electron-transport phosphorylation machinery represents another unique characteristic, as it is most likely localized on a special cell organelle, the anammoxosome, which is surrounded by a glycerolipid bilayer of ladder-like ("ladderane") cyclobutane and cyclohexane ring structures. The use of ammonium and nitrite as sole substrates might suggest a simple metabolic system, but the contrary seems to be the case. Genome analysis and ongoing biochemical research reveal an only partly understood redundancy in respiratory systems, featuring an unprecedented collection of cytochrome c proteins. The presence of the respiratory systems lends anammox bacteria a metabolic versatility that we are just beginning to appreciate. A specialized use of substrates may provide different anammox species their ecological niche.
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- Boran Kartal
- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Wetland and Water Research (IWWR), Faculty of Science, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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van Niftrik L, Jetten MSM. Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria: unique microorganisms with exceptional properties. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2012; 76:585-96. [PMID: 22933561 PMCID: PMC3429623 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.05025-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria defy many microbiological concepts and share numerous properties with both eukaryotes and archaea. Among their most intriguing characteristics are their compartmentalized cell plan and archaeon-like cell wall. Here we review our current knowledge about anammox cell biology. The anammox cell is divided into three separate compartments by bilayer membranes. The anammox cell consists of (from outside to inside) the cell wall, paryphoplasm, riboplasm, and anammoxosome. Not much is known about the composition or function of both the anammox cell wall and the paryphoplasm compartment. The cell wall is proposed to be proteinaceous and to lack both peptidoglycan and an outer membrane typical of Gram-negative bacteria. The function of the paryphoplasm is unknown, but it contains the cell division ring. The riboplasm resembles the standard cytoplasmic compartment of other bacteria; it contains ribosomes and the nucleoid. The anammoxosome occupies most of the cell volume and is a so-called "prokaryotic organelle" analogous to the eukaryotic mitochondrion. This is the site where the anammox reaction takes place, coupled over the curved anammoxosome membrane, possibly giving rise to a proton motive force and subsequent ATP synthesis. With these unique properties, anammox bacteria are food for thought concerning the early evolution of the domains Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya.
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- Laura van Niftrik
- Department of Microbiology, Institute for Water & Wetland Research, Faculty of Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Simon J, Klotz MG. Diversity and evolution of bioenergetic systems involved in microbial nitrogen compound transformations. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS 2012; 1827:114-35. [PMID: 22842521 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 214] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2012] [Revised: 07/10/2012] [Accepted: 07/19/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Nitrogen is an essential element of life that needs to be assimilated in its most reduced form, ammonium. On the other hand, nitrogen exists in a multitude of oxidation states and, consequently, nitrogen compounds (NCs) serve as electron donor and/or acceptors in many catabolic pathways including various forms of microbial respiration that contribute to the global biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. Some of these NCs are also known as reactive nitrogen species able to cause nitrosative stress because of their high redox reactivity. The best understood processes of the nitrogen cycle are denitrification and ammonification (both beginning with nitrate reduction to nitrite), nitrification (aerobic oxidation of ammonium and nitrite) and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox). This review presents examples of the diverse architecture, either elucidated or anticipated, and the high degree of modularity of the corresponding respiratory electron transport processes found in Bacteria and Archaea, and relates these to their respective bioenergetic mechanisms of proton motive force generation. In contrast to the multiplicity of enzymes that catalyze NC transformations, the number of proteins or protein modules involved in connecting electron transport to and from these enzymes with the quinone/quinol pool is comparatively small. These quinone/quinol-reactive protein modules consist of cytochromes b and c and iron-sulfur proteins. Conclusions are drawn towards the evolutionary relationships of bioenergetic systems involved in NC transformation and deduced aspects of the evolution of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle are presented. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: The evolutionary aspects of bioenergetic systems.
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- Jörg Simon
- Microbial Energy Conversion and Biotechnology, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
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Physiological function and catalytic versatility of bacterial multihaem cytochromes c involved in nitrogen and sulfur cycling. Biochem Soc Trans 2012; 39:1864-70. [PMID: 22103541 DOI: 10.1042/bst20110713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Bacterial MCCs (multihaem cytochromes c) represent widespread respiratory electron-transfer proteins. In addition, some of them convert substrates such as nitrite, hydroxylamine, nitric oxide, hydrazine, sulfite, thiosulfate or hydrogen peroxide. In many cases, only a single function is assigned to a specific MCC in database entries despite the fact that an MCC may accept various substrates, thus making it a multifunctional catalyst that can play diverse physiological roles in bacterial respiration, detoxification and stress defence mechanisms. The present article briefly reviews the structure, function and biogenesis of selected MCCs that catalyse key reactions in the biogeochemical nitrogen and sulfur cycles.
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The metagenomic basis of anammox metabolism in Candidatus ‘Brocadia fulgida’. Biochem Soc Trans 2011; 39:1799-804. [DOI: 10.1042/bst20110707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Anammox (anaerobic ammonium oxidation) coupled to nitrite reduction is an important step in the nitrogen cycle and has been recognized as an important sink for fixed nitrogen in the ocean. Still little is known about the genomic blueprint of different anammox species. In the present article, we discuss the important genes of anammox metabolism in Candidatus ‘Brocadia fulgida’ that were retrieved via a metagenomic approach.
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The ultrastructure of the compartmentalized anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria is linked to their energy metabolism. Biochem Soc Trans 2011; 39:1805-10. [DOI: 10.1042/bst20110728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The most striking example of a complex prokaryotic intracytoplasmic organization can be found in the members of the phylum Planctomycetes. Among them are the anammox (anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing) bacteria, which possess a unique cell compartment with an unprecedented function in bacteria: the anammoxosome is a prokaryotic cell organelle evolved for energy metabolism. It is an independent entity, which is enclosed by a contiguous membrane. Several lines of evidence indicate its importance in the anammox reaction and the unusual subcellular organization may well be essential for the lifestyle of anammox bacteria. The present review summarizes our knowledge about the ultrastructure of anammox cells and the connection between the anammoxosome and the energy metabolism of the cell. In the future, much more research will be necessary to validate the current models and to answer questions on the functional cell biology of anammox bacteria.
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