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respiration of sulfur compounds

traitmech:000124 · CLASS · PROPOSED

An anaerobic respiration in which an organism conserves energy by transferring electrons to an inorganic sulfur compound as the terminal electron acceptor.

Trait evidence (1)

  • DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1108245
    sulfate, sulfur, or thiosulfate respiration

    Zavarzina et al. experimentally compare iron respiration with sulfur/thiosulfate respiration in Dethiobacter alkaliphilus.

Provenance

Identifier source
TraitMech local identifier
Definition source
DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

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Children (3)

Synonyms (1)

  • respiration_of_sulfur_compounds RELATED_SYNONYM · DOI:10.1126/science.aaf4507

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Curation history

  1. · PROPOSED_FROM_RESEARCH · codex

    Proposed a DOI-backed FAPROTAX metabolic capability from proposals/metpo_traitmech_v11 after repository-wide duplicate review.