Brown algae, constituting the second largest group of marine macroalgae, fix significant amounts of inorganic carbon into alginate, the most abundant polysaccharide found in their cell walls. Alginate serves as an important macromolecular carbon source for marine bacteria. The catabolism of alginate by bacteria is an important step in the marine carbon cycle, and this area of research has attracted growing interests over the past decade. Here, we provide an overview of the recent advances in our understanding of marine bacterial alginate catabolic systems, both in individual organisms and within bacterial consortia, discuss the possibility of additional alginate metabolic pathways in light of the present findings, and highlight the future research foci.
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