Cell Biology


Publications
86

Nitrogen fixation in a chemoautotrophic lucinid symbiosis

Citation
König et al. (2016). Nature Microbiology 2 (1)
Names
Ca. Thiodiazotropha fergusoni “Thiodiazotropha endolucinida”
Abstract
AbstractThe shallow water bivalve Codakia orbicularis lives in symbiotic association with a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium in its gills. The endosymbiont fixes CO2 and thus generates organic carbon compounds, which support the host's growth. To investigate the uncultured symbiont's metabolism and symbiont–host interactions in detail we conducted a proteogenomic analysis of purified bacteria. Unexpectedly, our results reveal a hitherto completely unrecognized feature of the C. orbicularis symbiont's

Genomic inference of the metabolism of cosmopolitan subsurface Archaea, Hadesarchaea

Citation
Baker et al. (2016). Nature Microbiology 1 (3)
Names
Hadarchaeum yellowstonense Ts
Abstract
AbstractThe subsurface biosphere is largely unexplored and contains a broad diversity of uncultured microbes1. Despite being one of the few prokaryotic lineages that is cosmopolitan in both the terrestrial and marine subsurface2–4, the physiological and ecological roles of SAGMEG (South-African Gold Mine Miscellaneous Euryarchaeal Group) Archaea are unknown. Here, we report the metabolic capabilities of this enigmatic group as inferred from genomic reconstructions. Four high-quality (63–90% comp