Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea

GL Chadwick, CT Skennerton, R Laso-Pérez… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The anaerobic oxidation of methane coupled to sulfate reduction is a microbially mediated
process requiring a syntrophic partnership between anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) …

Reverse methanogenesis and respiration in methanotrophic archaea

PHA Timmers, CU Welte, JJ Koehorst, CM Plugge… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is catalyzed by anaerobic methane‐oxidizing
archaea (ANME) via a reverse and modified methanogenesis pathway. Methanogens can …

Anaerobic degradation of alkanes by marine archaea

G Wegener, R Laso-Pérez, VJ Orphan… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Alkanes are saturated apolar hydrocarbons that range from their simplest form, methane, to
high-molecular-weight compounds. Although alkanes were once considered biologically …

Recent advances in dissimilatory sulfate reduction: from metabolic study to application

Z Qian, H Tianwei, HR Mackey, MCM van Loosdrecht… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are a group of diverse anaerobic microorganisms
omnipresent in natural habitats and engineered environments that use sulfur compounds as …

Visualizing in situ translational activity for identifying and sorting slow-growing archaeal− bacterial consortia

R Hatzenpichler, SA Connon… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
To understand the biogeochemical roles of microorganisms in the environment, it is
important to determine when and under which conditions they are metabolically active …

Microbial communities involved in methane, sulfur, and nitrogen cycling in the sediments of the Barents Sea

S Begmatov, AS Savvichev, VV Kadnikov, AV Beletsky… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
A combination of physicochemical and radiotracer analysis, high-throughput sequencing of
the 16S rRNA, and particulate methane monooxygenase subunit A (pmoA) genes was used …

Symbiosis in eukaryotic evolution

P López-García, L Eme, D Moreira - Journal of theoretical biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Fifty years ago, Lynn Margulis, inspiring in early twentieth-century ideas that put
forward a symbiotic origin for some eukaryotic organelles, proposed a unified theory for the …

Anaerobic oxidation of methane by aerobic methanotrophs in sub-Arctic lake sediments

K Martinez-Cruz, MC Leewis, IC Herriott… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is a biological process that plays an important role in
reducing the CH 4 emissions from a wide range of ecosystems. Arctic and sub-Arctic lakes …

Genomic and enzymatic evidence of acetogenesis by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea

S Yang, Y Lv, X Liu, Y Wang, Q Fan, Z Yang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) mediated by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea
(ANME) is the primary process that provides energy to cold seep ecosystems by converting …

Performances and mechanisms of simultaneous nitrate and phosphate removal in sponge iron biofilter

J Li, W Zeng, H Liu, Y Wu, HH Miao - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Sponge iron is a potential material for nitrogen and phosphate removal. To explore the
performances and mechanisms of nitrogen and phosphate removal by sponge iron, a …