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| Title |
Exploring Fingerprints of the Extreme Thermoacidophile Metallosphaera sedula Grown on Synthetic Martian Regolith Materials as the Sole Energy Sources
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, October 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01918 |
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| Authors |
Denise Kölbl, Marc Pignitter, Veronika Somoza, Mario P. Schimak, Oliver Strbak, Amir Blazevic, Tetyana Milojevic |
| Abstract |
The biology of metal transforming microorganisms is of a fundamental and applied importance for our understanding of past and present biogeochemical processes on Earth and in the Universe. The extreme thermoacidophile Metallosphaera sedula is a metal mobilizing archaeon, which thrives in hot acid environments (optimal growth at 74°C and pH 2.0) and utilizes energy from the oxidation of reduced metal inorganic sources. These characteristics of M. sedula make it an ideal organism to further our knowledge of the biogeochemical processes of possible life on extraterrestrial planetary bodies. Exploring the viability and metal extraction capacity of M. sedula living on and interacting with synthetic extraterrestrial minerals, we show that M. sedula utilizes metals trapped in the Martian regolith simulants (JSC Mars 1A; P-MRS; S-MRS; MRS07/52) as the sole energy sources. The obtained set of microbiological and mineralogical data suggests that M. sedula actively colonizes synthetic Martian regolith materials and releases free soluble metals. The surface of bioprocessed Martian regolith simulants is analyzed for specific mineralogical fingerprints left upon M. sedula growth. The obtained results provide insights of biomining of extraterrestrial material as well as of the detection of biosignatures implementing in life search missions. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Germany | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 54 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 15 | 28% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Unknown | 16 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 22% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 17% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 6% |
| Engineering | 2 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 21 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 131. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 December 2019.
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#267,958
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#135
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#6,344
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#4
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