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A metagenomic insight into freshwater methane-utilizing communities and evidence for cooperation between the Methylococcaceae and the Methylophilaceae.
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- From Single Organisms to Communities: Modeling Methanotrophs and Their Satellites.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Inverse stable isotope probing-metabolomics (InverSIP) identifies an iron acquisition system in a methane-oxidizing bacterial community.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Methane-powered sea spiders: Diverse, epibiotic methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for deep-sea methane seepProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Expanding the C-S-R framework to incorporate microbial interactions: evidence from methane-consuming communities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Survival strategies of aerobic methanotrophs under hypoxia in methanogenic lake sediments.Environmental microbiome · 2024Article
- Genome-resolved metagenomics identifies novel active microbes in biogeochemical cycling within methanol-enriched soil.Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
- Enigmatic persistence of aerobic methanotrophs in oxygen-limiting freshwater habitats.The ISME journal · 2024Review
- Transcriptional Regulation of Methanol Dehydrogenases in the Methanotrophic Bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus Bath by Soluble and Insoluble Lanthanides.Microbes and environments · 2023Article
- Aerobic methanotrophy increases the net iron reduction in methanogenic lake sediments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Engineered methanotrophic syntrophy in photogranule communities removes dissolved methane.Water research X · 2021Article
- Holocene life and microbiome profiling in ancient tropical Lake Chalco, Mexico.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Methanotrophic Community Detected by DNA-SIP at Bertioga's Mangrove Area, Southeast Brazil.Microbial ecology · 2021Article
- Different Responses of Soil Environmental Factors, Soil Bacterial Community, and Root Performance to Reductive Soil Disinfestation and Soil Fumigant Chloropicrin.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- From Biogas and Hydrogen to Microbial Protein Through Co-Cultivation of Methane and Hydrogen Oxidizing Bacteria.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Article
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Abstract
We investigated microbial communities active in methane oxidation in lake sediment at different oxygen tensions and their response to the addition of nitrate, via stable isotope probing combined with deep metagenomic sequencing. Communities from a total of four manipulated microcosms were analyzed, supplied with (13)C-methane in, respectively, ambient air, ambient air with the addition of nitrate, nitrogen atmosphere and nitrogen atmosphere with the addition of nitrate, and these were compared to the community from an unamended sediment sample. We found that the major group involved in methane oxidation in both aerobic and microaerobic conditions were members of the family Methylococcaceae, dominated by species of the genus Methylobacter, and these were stimulated by nitrate in aerobic but not microaerobic conditions. In aerobic conditions, we also noted a pronounced response to both methane and nitrate by members of the family Methylophilaceae that are non-methane-oxidizing methylotrophs, and predominantly by the members of the genus Methylotenera. The relevant abundances of the Methylococcaceae and the Methylophilaceae and their coordinated response to methane and nitrate suggest that these species may be engaged in cooperative behavior, the nature of which remains unknown.
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