sulfur respiration

traitmech:000125 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A respiration of sulfur compounds in which elemental sulfur is the terminal electron acceptor and is reduced to sulfide.

Trait evidence (1)

DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1108245
using sulfur as an alternative electron acceptor

Zavarzina et al. analyze a natronophilic bacterium capable of reducing zero-valent sulfur during anaerobic respiration.

Provenance

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

Parent traits (1)

respiration of sulfur compounds traitmech:000124

Synonyms (1)

sulfur_respiration 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

2026-09-08T00:00:00Z · PROPOSED_FROM_RESEARCH · codex
Proposed a DOI-backed FAPROTAX metabolic capability from proposals/metpo_traitmech_v11 after repository-wide duplicate review.