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Chen, Song-Can; Tanabe, Tomohisa; Sun, Chengliang; Yan, Jing-Ling; Ren, Xin-Yue; Loy, Alexander<\/p>

Global evolutionary pattern and distinct metabolic strategies of sulfur-cycling microorganisms across ecosystems<\/a> Unpublished<\/span> <\/p>

Research Square, <\/span>2026<\/span>.<\/p>

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@unpublished{Chen2026b,
\r\ntitle = {Global evolutionary pattern and distinct metabolic strategies of sulfur-cycling microorganisms across ecosystems},
\r\nauthor = {Song-Can Chen and Tomohisa Tanabe and Chengliang Sun and Jing-Ling Yan and Xin-Yue Ren and Alexander Loy},
\r\nurl = {https:\/\/www.researchsquare.com\/article\/rs-10339560\/v1},
\r\ndoi = {10.21203\/rs.3.rs-10339560\/v1},
\r\nyear  = {2026},
\r\ndate = {2026-07-16},
\r\nurldate = {2026-07-16},
\r\npublisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
\r\nabstract = {<title>Abstract<\/title>
\r\n                <p>Microorganisms drive the global sulfur cycle, but the complexity of sulfur redox transformations complicates understanding of their evolution, metabolism, and ecology. We developed DiSuCy, a manually curated, phylogeny-aware knowledgebase of 116 dissimilatory sulfur metabolism genes to identify sulfur-cycling microorganisms in (meta)genomes\/transcriptomes. Key sulfur metabolism genes showed varying evolutionary conservation and intermediate horizontal transfer rates, enabling taxonomically scaled predictions of sulfur metabolisms. Co-occurrence of sulfur metabolisms with other biochemical pathways was shaped by redox thermodynamics, defining metabolic niches and ecosystem specificity of sulfur-cycling microorganisms. We predicted previously unrecognized sulfur-cycling members across underexplored bacterial phyla, thiotrophs respiring nitrate\/arsenate or utilizing light, and ocean and human gut microbiomes. Some non-canonical sulfur taxa abundantly transcribed pathways for methanethiol oxidation in the global ocean or reduced sulfur compound oxidation in the gut. These findings expand the toolkit for studying sulfur-cycling microorganisms and provide new insights into their evolutionary dynamics and ecology.<\/p>},
\r\nhowpublished = {Research Square},
\r\nkeywords = {},
\r\npubstate = {published},
\r\ntppubtype = {unpublished}
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\r\n                <p>Microorganisms drive the global sulfur cycle, but the complexity of sulfur redox transformations complicates understanding of their evolution, metabolism, and ecology. We developed DiSuCy, a manually curated, phylogeny-aware knowledgebase of 116 dissimilatory sulfur metabolism genes to identify sulfur-cycling microorganisms in (meta)genomes\/transcriptomes. Key sulfur metabolism genes showed varying evolutionary conservation and intermediate horizontal transfer rates, enabling taxonomically scaled predictions of sulfur metabolisms. Co-occurrence of sulfur metabolisms with other biochemical pathways was shaped by redox thermodynamics, defining metabolic niches and ecosystem specificity of sulfur-cycling microorganisms. We predicted previously unrecognized sulfur-cycling members across underexplored bacterial phyla, thiotrophs respiring nitrate\/arsenate or utilizing light, and ocean and human gut microbiomes. Some non-canonical sulfur taxa abundantly transcribed pathways for methanethiol oxidation in the global ocean or reduced sulfur compound oxidation in the gut. These findings expand the toolkit for studying sulfur-cycling microorganisms and provide new insights into their evolutionary dynamics and ecology.<\/p><\/div>
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