Dissimilatory sulfate reduction in the archaeon ‘Candidatus Vulcanisaeta moutnovskia’ sheds light on the evolution of sulfur metabolism

• Published in: Nature Microbiology
• Main Authors: Chernyh, N. A., Neukirchen, Sinje, Frolov, Evgenii N., Sousa, Filipa L., Miroshnichenko, Margarita L., Merkel, Alexander Y., Pimenov, Nikolay V., Sorokin, Dimitry Y., Ciordia, Sergio, Mena, M. Carmen, Ferrer, Manuel, Golyshin, Peter N., Lebedinsky, A. V., Cardoso Pereira, Inês A., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E. A.
• Other Authors: Russian Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK), European Commission, European Research Council, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer Nature 2020
• Subjects: Archaeal evolution; Evolution; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/228930; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0776-z; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000781; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000268; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006769; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004587; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780

Dissimilatory sulfate reduction (DSR)—an important reaction in the biogeochemical sulfur cycle—has been dated to the Palaeoarchaean using geological evidence, but its evolutionary history is poorly understood. Several lineages of bacteria carry out DSR, but in archaea only Archaeoglobus, which acqui...