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ReviewAdvances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology2025

Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus and Alternative Methanogens: Archaea-Based Production.

Lucas Mühling, Tina Baur, Bastian Molitor

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Review in Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Metabolic engineering ofMetabolic engineering communications · 2026
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  3. Valine overproduction inMetabolic engineering communications · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lucas MühlingEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Tina BaurEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Bastian MolitorEnvironmental Biotechnology Group, Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. bastian.molitor@uni-tuebingen.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methanogenic archaea convert bacterial fermentation intermediates from the decomposition of organic material into methane. This process has relevance in the global carbon cycle and finds application in anthropogenic processes, such as wastewater treatment and anaerobic digestion. Furthermore, methanogenic archaea that utilize hydrogen and carbon dioxide as substrates are being employed as biocatalysts for the biomethanation step of power-to-gas technology. This technology converts hydrogen from water electrolysis and carbon dioxide into renewable natural gas (i.e., methane). The application of methanogenic archaea in bioproduction beyond methane has been demonstrated in only a few instances and is limited to mesophilic species for which genetic engineering tools are available. In this chapter, we discuss recent developments for those existing genetically tractable systems and the inclusion of novel genetic tools for thermophilic methanogenic species. We then give an overview of recombinant bioproduction with mesophilic methanogenic archaea and thermophilic non-methanogenic microbes. This is the basis for discussing putative products with thermophilic methanogenic archaea, specifically the species Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus. We give estimates of potential conversion efficiencies for those putative products based on a genome-scale metabolic model for M. thermautotrophicus.

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Metabolic EngineeringMethaneMethanobacteriaceaeArchaeaHydrogenHydrogenMethaneGenetic toolsMetabolic modelingMethanogensMethanothermobacterRecombinant products

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