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The diversity and evolution of microbial dissimilatory phosphite oxidation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Mar 2021
Ewens Sophia D, Gomberg Alexa F S, Barnum Tyler P, Borton Mikayla A, Carlson Hans K, Wrighton Kelly C, Coates John D
Abstract excerpt
Phosphite is the most energetically favorable chemotrophic electron donor known, with a half-cell potential (Eo') of -650 mV for the PO43-/PO33- couple. Since the discovery of microbial dissimilatory phosphite oxidation (DPO) in 2000, the environmental distribution, evolution, and diversity of DPO microorganisms (DPOMs) have remained enigmatic, as only two species have been identified. Here, metagenomic...
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