Shungui Zhou

Manganese Redox Cycling Promotes Microbial Vanadium Immobilization in Soil

Yang Tang, Baogang Zhang, Yong Yuan, Alistair G.L. Borthwick et autres

Although microbial reductive immobilization offers a promising means of treating toxic vanadium(V) in soil, the influence of ubiquitous manganese (Mn) in soil on V geochemistry is still poorly understood. This work demonstrates the significant impact of Mn redox cycling on microbial V …

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Air Self-Disinfection via Hygroscopic Hydrovoltaic Effect

Qichang Hu, Xiang Shen, Xiuyu Lin, Wei Wang et autres

Airborne pathogenic microorganisms pose a serious and growing threat to global public health and economic stability. However, conventional air disinfection technologies rely on harsh operational conditions or continuous external energy inputs, limiting their practicality and sustainability. Herein, we report the first self-powered …

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Microbial electrosensing: wiring ecology to biotechnology

Linpeng Yu, Xing Liu, Huitong Wang, Christopher Rensing et autres

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Running water never stales: A new perspective on hydrodynamic-driven water self-purification

Bing Li, Hanbing Li, Xiaofeng Wu, Yuefei Huang et autres

Water movement activates a hidden hydrogen-driven energy pathway that converts hydrodynamic forces into electrons and reactive oxygen species, directly powering microbial metabolism while simultaneously driving abiotic pollutant degradation. This hydro-electric mechanism reveals a previously overlooked engine of natural water purification that operates …

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Carbohydrate-active enzymes of soil prophages enhance global carbon cycling potential

Hanpeng Liao, Chaofan Ai, Chen Liu, Hongbo Zhang et autres

Recent work suggests that soil-borne viruses play an important role in controlling carbon (C) cycling and stocks. However, the contribution of individual prophage (i.e., temperate phages residing within bacterial hosts during lysogenic cycle) to C degradation remains largely undocumented at global scale. …

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In Situ Single-Cell Raman Isotope Analysis Quantifies Cell-to-Cell Metabolic Heterogeneity within Individual Cable Bacteria Filaments in Sediments

Lu Zhang, Ji Zhan, Junhui Guo, Tianqi Lin et autres

Cable bacteria are multicellular, electrogenic filamentous microorganisms that oxidize sulfide in anoxic sediments while reducing oxygen near the surface, driving crucial redox transformations in aquatic environments. However, the metabolic diversity and growth dynamics of individual cells within a single filament remain poorly …

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Iron plaques as terminal electron acceptors optimize clostridial fermentation and nitrogen fixation in rice rhizospheres

Ji Zhan, Wei Yang, Junhui Guo, Yanshuang Yu et autres

Fermentative Clostridium species associated with rice roots can contribute substantially to biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in anoxic paddy soils, yet whether their BNF is regulated by the redox chemistry of rhizosphere remains unclear. Here, we show that iron plaques on rice roots …

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Overcoming Mineral Scaling in Sulfur-iron autotrophic denitrification: Novel Recovered-Sulfur Filter Doubles Nitrate Removal via Biofilm-Mineral Interaction Control

Baorui Liang, Bing Li, Degui Gao, Yuefei Huang et autres

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Dynamic magnetic field enhances aerobic composting humification: Biotic and abiotic mechanisms

Ruizhi Xing, Jiali Wang, Ziyi Fu, Xiaoyan Chen et autres

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Fungal genomic trait-based ecological strategies mediate plant productivity

Li Chen, Francisco Dini‐Andreote, Hui Wang, Shungui Zhou et autres

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Trojan phages: Distinguishing lysogeny from transduction in phage-involved ARG dissemination

Xiang Tang, Yanchu Ke, Qiue Yang, Hanpeng Liao et autres

Despite evidence that questions the scale of phage contributions to antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) circulation, phages are increasingly recognized as key facilitators of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) within microbial communities. This recognition prompts a reevaluation of their dual roles as therapeutic agents …

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Piezoelectrotrophy: A new paradigm for microbial energy acquisition

Shungui Zhou, Xiang Tang, Guoping Ren, Jiangtao Gao

This review introduces piezoelectrotrophy as a novel paradigm in microbial energy acquisition, complementing phototrophy, chemotrophy, and electrotrophy. We define piezoelectrotrophy as the process enabling microorganisms to harness mechanical energy via piezoelectric mechanisms, converting it into electrical energy for cellular metabolism. This expands …

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