Genomic and enzymatic evidence of acetogenesis by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea

Ocean cold seeps are poorly understood relative to related systems like hydrothermal vents. Here the authors use high pressure bioreactors and microbial communities from a cold seep mud volcano and find a previously missing step of methane conversion to acetate that likely fuels heterotrophic commun...

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Main Authors: Shanshan Yang, Yongxin Lv, Xipeng Liu, Yinzhao Wang, Qilian Fan, Zhifeng Yang, Nico Boon, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao, Yu Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17860-8