{"id":208566,"date":"2025-03-13T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/sulfur-bacteria-team-up-to-break-down-organic-substances-in-the-seabed"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:05:25","slug":"sulfur-bacteria-team-up-to-break-down-organic-substances-in-the-seabed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/sulfur-bacteria-team-up-to-break-down-organic-substances-in-the-seabed","title":{"rendered":"Sulfur bacteria team up to break down organic substances in the seabed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sulfur-bacteria-team-up-to-break-down-organic-substances-in-the-seabed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sulfate-reducing bacteria break down a large proportion of the organic carbon in the oxygen-free zones of Earth, and in the seabed in particular. Among these important microbes, the Desulfobacteraceae family of bacteria stands out because its members are able to break down a wide variety of compounds\u2014including some that are poorly degradable\u2014to their end product, carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>).<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers led by Dr. Lars W\u00f6hlbrand and Prof. Dr. Ralf Rabus from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, has investigated the role of these microbes in detail and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.ads5631\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> the findings of their comprehensive study in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>The team reports that the bacteria are distributed across the globe and possess a complex metabolism that displays modular features. All the studied strains possess the same central metabolic architecture for harvesting energy, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sulfate-reducing bacteria break down a large proportion of the organic carbon in the oxygen-free zones of Earth, and in the seabed in particular. Among these important microbes, the Desulfobacteraceae family of bacteria stands out because its members are able to break down a wide variety of compounds\u2014including some that are poorly degradable\u2014to their end product, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}