ArticleNature communications2017
Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis.
Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.
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34 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Capturing methane with recombinant soluble methane monooxygenase and recombinant methyl-coenzyme M reductase.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Review
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- Energy harvesting from plants using hybrid microbial fuel cells; potential applications and future exploitation.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Review
- Detection and Characterization of Electrogenic Bacteria from Soils.Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)) · 2023Article
- Multi-heme cytochrome-mediated extracellular electron transfer by the anaerobic methanotroph 'Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens'.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Electroactive Microorganisms in Advanced Energy Technologies.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- A Review of Recent Advances in Microbial Fuel Cells: Preparation, Operation, and Application.Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)) · 2022Review
- Quorum quenching of autoinducer 2 increases methane production in anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2022Article
- A Structural View of Alkyl-Coenzyme M Reductases, the First Step of Alkane Anaerobic Oxidation Catalyzed by Archaea.Biochemistry · 2022Review
- Overview of Diverse Methyl/Alkyl-Coenzyme M Reductases and Considerations for Their Potential Heterologous Expression.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Insights into the biotechnology potential ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Current production by non-methanotrophic bacteria enriched from an anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial community.Biofilm · 2021Article
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Abstract
Given our vast methane reserves and the difficulty in transporting methane without substantial leaks, the conversion of methane directly into electricity would be beneficial. Microbial fuel cells harness electrical power from a wide variety of substrates through biological means; however, the greenhouse gas methane has not been used with much success previously as a substrate in microbial fuel cells to generate electrical current. Here we construct a synthetic consortium consisting of: (i) an engineered archaeal strain to produce methyl-coenzyme M reductase from unculturable anaerobic methanotrophs for capturing methane and secreting acetate; (ii) micro-organisms from methane-acclimated sludge (including Paracoccus denitrificans) to facilitate electron transfer by providing electron shuttles (confirmed by replacing the sludge with humic acids), and (iii) Geobacter sulfurreducens to produce electrons from acetate, to create a microbial fuel cell that converts methane directly into significant electrical current. Notably, this methane microbial fuel cell operates at high Coulombic efficiency.
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