ReviewFEMS microbiology reviews2021
Verrucomicrobial methanotrophs: ecophysiology of metabolically versatile acidophiles.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Methane-fed microbial communities enriched from field-grown rice support diverse heterotrophic bacteria.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- Ecological assembly of activated sludge microbiomes under contrasting process configurations and influent regimes.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Biological conversion of methane to organic molecules: towards a low-carbon bioeconomy.National science review · 2026Review
- Response and adaptation of verrucomicrobial methanotrophs to heat and acidity.Archives of microbiology · 2025Article
- Methane Concentration Prediction in Anaerobic Codigestion Using Multiple Linear Regression with Integrated Microbial and Operational Data.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Expansion of aerobic methanotrophy to the phylum of Actinomycetota and its environmental implications.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Aligning global mercury mitigation with climate action.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Bringing the uncultivated microbial majority of freshwater ecosystems into culture.Nature communications · 2025Article
- First isolation of a methanotrophicApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Isolation of Ultra-SmallMicroorganisms · 2025Article
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- C3 Compound Metabolism in the Thermoacidophilic Methanotroph Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Harnessing the potential of microbial methane utilization for chasing sustainability.Current opinion in biotechnology · 2025Review
- Genomic characterisation of novel extremophile lineages from the thalassohaline lake Dziani Dzaha expands the metabolic repertoire of the PVC superphylum.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Lipid biomarkers reveal dominance of aerobic methanotrophy in a continental serpentinizing system.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Methanotrophs are an important group of microorganisms that counteract methane emissions to the atmosphere. Methane-oxidising bacteria of the Alpha- and Gammaproteobacteria have been studied for over a century, while methanotrophs of the phylum Verrucomicrobia are a more recent discovery. Verrucomicrobial methanotrophs are extremophiles that live in very acidic geothermal ecosystems. Currently, more than a dozen strains have been isolated, belonging to the genera Methylacidiphilum and Methylacidimicrobium. Initially, these methanotrophs were thought to be metabolically confined. However, genomic analyses and physiological and biochemical experiments over the past years revealed that verrucomicrobial methanotrophs, as well as proteobacterial methanotrophs, are much more metabolically versatile than previously assumed. Several inorganic gases and other molecules present in acidic geothermal ecosystems can be utilised, such as methane, hydrogen gas, carbon dioxide, ammonium, nitrogen gas and perhaps also hydrogen sulfide. Verrucomicrobial methanotrophs could therefore represent key players in multiple volcanic nutrient cycles and in the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from geothermal ecosystems. Here, we summarise the current knowledge on verrucomicrobial methanotrophs with respect to their metabolic versatility and discuss the factors that determine their diversity in their natural environment. In addition, key metabolic, morphological and ecological characteristics of verrucomicrobial and proteobacterial methanotrophs are reviewed.
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