Publications by Karin Lederballe Meibom

Speciation-dependent molecular mechanism of electron transfer from the c-type cytochrome MtrC to U(VI)-ligand complexes

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Luciano Andres Abriata, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Margaux Camille Andréa Molinas

Members of the Shewanella genus transfer electrons to metal and actinide electron acceptors such as hexavalent uranium, U(VI), via c-type cytochromes. The intracellular mechanism of electron transfer is well studied but the delivery of electrons to externa ...

2025

Biosensor-aided isolation of anaerobic arsenic-methylating bacteria from soil

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Nicolas Louis Maurice Jacquemin, Hugo Sallet

Microbial methylation of arsenic impacts both the toxicity and fate of this environmental contaminant, and is an important component of its biogeochemical cycle. This transformation occurs in flooded paddy fields where soil microorganisms can produce dimet ...

Oxford University Press2025

High-throughput cultivation and isolation of environmental anaerobes using selectively permeable hydrogel capsules

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Nicolas Louis Maurice Jacquemin, Hugo Sallet

Over the past two decades, metagenomics has greatly expanded our understanding of microbial phylogenetic and metabolic diversity. However, most microbial taxa remain uncultured, hindering research and biotechnological applications. Isolating environmental ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2025

Growth substrate limitation enhances anaerobic arsenic methylation by Paraclostridium bifermentans strain EML

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Hugo Sallet, Jiangtao Qiao

Microbial arsenic methylation is established as a detoxification process under aerobic conditions (converting arsenite to monomethylated arsenate) but is proposed to be a microbial warfare strategy under anoxic conditions due to the toxicity of its main pr ...

American Society for Microbiology2024

BaiJ and BaiB are key enzymes in the chenodeoxycholic acid 7a-dehydroxylation pathway in the gut microbe Clostridium scindens ATCC 35704

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Laure Menin, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Eduard Vico Oton, Théo Nass, Colin Volet, Solenne Anne Marie Marion

Bile acid transformation is a common gut microbiome activity that produces secondary bile acids, some of which are important for human health. One such process, 7α-dehydroxylation, converts the primary bile acids, cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid, to ...

2024

Strain-dependent induction of primary bile acid 7-dehydroxylation by cholic acid

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Nicolas Louis Maurice Jacquemin, Eduard Vico Oton, Colin Volet

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Mechanism of Reduction of Aqueous U(V)-dpaea and Solid-Phase U(VI)-dpaea Complexes: The Role of Multiheme c-Type Cytochromes

Marinella Mazzanti, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Margaux Camille Andréa Molinas, Radmila Faizova

The biological reduction of soluble U(VI) complexes to form immobile U(IV) species has been proposed to remediate contaminated sites. It is well established that multiheme c-type cytochromes (MHCs) are key mediators of electron transfer to aqueous phase U( ...

2023

Dataset of scientific article "Variability in Arsenic Methylation Efficiency across Aerobic and Anaerobic Microorganisms"

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Karen Elda Viacava Romo, Arnaud Michel Gelb

Dataset for journal paper entitled "Variability in Arsenic Methylation Efficiency across Aerobic and Anaerobic Microorganisms" (DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03908). Partial publication's abstract: "Microbially-mediated methylation of arsenic (As ...

Zenodo2023

Meta-omics-aided isolation of an elusive anaerobic arsenic-methylating soil bacterium

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Karen Elda Viacava Romo, Nicolas Louis Maurice Jacquemin, Matthew Charles Reid, Jiangtao Qiao

Soil microbiomes harbor unparalleled functional and phylogenetic diversity and are sources of novel metabolisms. However, extracting isolates with a targeted function from complex microbiomes is not straightforward, particularly if the associated phenotype ...

2022

Variability in arsenic methylation efficiency across aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Karin Lederballe Meibom, Karen Elda Viacava Romo, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Leia Soraya Véronique Falquet, Shannon Eliot Dyer, Adrien Mestrot

Microbially-mediated methylation of arsenic (As) plays an important role in the As biogeochemical cycle, particularly in rice paddy soils where methylated As, generated microbially, is translocated into rice grains. The presence of the arsenite (As(III)) m ...

2020