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) …

Microbial sulfur metabolism and environmental implications

B Wu, F Liu, W Fang, T Yang, GH Chen, Z He… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sulfur as a macroelement plays an important role in biochemistry in both natural
environments and engineering biosystems, which can be further linked to other important …

Multi-heme cytochrome-mediated extracellular electron transfer by the anaerobic methanotroph 'Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens'

X Zhang, GH Joyce, AO Leu, J Zhao, H Rabiee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) carry out anaerobic oxidation of methane, thus
playing a crucial role in the methane cycle. Previous genomic evidence indicates that multi …

Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae

AO Leu, C Cai, SJ McIlroy, G Southam… - The ISME …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is a major biological process that reduces global
methane emission to the atmosphere. Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) mediate …

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 …

Electrotrophy: other microbial species, iron, and electrodes as electron donors for microbial respirations

DR Lovley - Bioresource technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrotrophy, the growth of microbes on extracellular electron donors, drives important
biogeochemical cycles and has practical applications. Studies of Fe (II)-based electrotrophy …

Mechanisms of extracellular electron transfer in anaerobic methanotrophic archaea

HT Ouboter, R Mesman, T Sleutels, J Postma… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea are environmentally important, uncultivated
microorganisms that oxidize the potent greenhouse gas methane. During methane …

A comprehensive genomic catalog from global cold seeps

Y Han, C Zhang, Z Zhao, Y Peng, J Liao, Q Jiang, Q Liu… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Cold seeps harbor abundant and diverse microbes with tremendous potential for biological
applications and that have a significant influence on biogeochemical cycles. Although recent …

The archaellum of Methanospirillum hungatei is electrically conductive

DJF Walker, E Martz, DE Holmes, Z Zhou… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microbially produced electrically conductive protein filaments are of interest because they
can function as conduits for long-range biological electron transfer. They also show promise …

Anaerobic methanotroph 'Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens' has a pleomorphic life cycle

SJ McIlroy, AO Leu, X Zhang, R Newell… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract 'Candidatus Methanoperedens' are anaerobic methanotrophic (ANME) archaea
with global importance to methane cycling. Here meta-omics and fluorescence in situ …