Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Genomic and enzymatic evidence of acetogenesis by anaerobic methanotrophic archaea

  • Shanshan Yang,
  • Yongxin Lv,
  • Xipeng Liu,
  • Yinzhao Wang,
  • Qilian Fan,
  • Zhifeng Yang,
  • Nico Boon,
  • Fengping Wang,
  • Xiang Xiao,
  • Yu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17860-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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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 communities.