An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea

PN Evans, JA Boyd, AO Leu, BJ Woodcroft… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Methane is a key compound in the global carbon cycle that influences both nutrient cycling
and the Earth's climate. A limited number of microorganisms control the flux of biologically …

Methyl-based methanogenesis: an ecological and genomic review

CP Bueno de Mesquita, D Wu… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Methyl-based methanogenesis is one of three broad categories of archaeal anaerobic
methanogenesis, including both the methyl dismutation (methylotrophic) pathway and the …

A catalogue of 1,167 genomes from the human gut archaeome

CM Chibani, A Mahnert, G Borrel, A Almeida… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The human gut microbiome plays an important role in health, but its archaeal diversity
remains largely unexplored. In the present study, we report the analysis of 1,167 …

Assembly of 913 microbial genomes from metagenomic sequencing of the cow rumen

RD Stewart, MD Auffret, A Warr, AH Wiser… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The cow rumen is adapted for the breakdown of plant material into energy and nutrients, a
task largely performed by enzymes encoded by the rumen microbiome. Here we present …

Several ways one goal—methanogenesis from unconventional substrates

JM Kurth, HJM Op den Camp, CU Welte - Applied Microbiology and …, 2020 - Springer
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas on earth. It is produced by
methanogenic archaea, which play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Three main …

Insight into interactions between syntrophic bacteria and archaea in anaerobic digestion amended with conductive materials

V Kumar, R Nabaterega, S Khoei… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial communities play an important role in various biochemical and metabolic
reactions that occur in natural and engineered anaerobic systems. Methanogenic syntrophy …

Competitive reactions during ethanol chain elongation were temporarily suppressed by increasing hydrogen partial pressure through methanogenesis inhibition

S Shrestha, S Xue, L Raskin - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Organic waste streams can be converted into high-value platform chemicals such as
medium-chain carboxylic acids (MCCAs) using mixed microbial communities via chain …

Energy Conservation and Hydrogenase Function in Methanogenic Archaea, in Particular the Genus Methanosarcina

TD Mand, WW Metcalf - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
The biological production of methane is vital to the global carbon cycle and accounts for ca.
74% of total methane emissions. The organisms that facilitate this process, methanogenic …

3-NOP vs. halogenated compound: methane production, ruminal fermentation and microbial community response in forage fed cattle

G Martinez-Fernandez, S Duval… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of 3-nitrooxypropanol (3-NOP) and
chloroform on methane (CH4) and H2 production, ruminal metabolites and microbial …

The evolving role of methanogenic archaea in mammalian microbiomes

JG Volmer, H McRae, M Morrison - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Methanogenic archaea (methanogens) represent a diverse group of microorganisms that
inhabit various environmental and host-associated microbiomes. These organisms play an …