Reverse Methanogenesis: Testing the Hypothesis with Environmental Genomics

By S. Hallam, N. Putnam, C. Preston, J. Detter, D. Rokhsar, Paul Richardson, E. Delong. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change

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Bioinformatics for Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing of Microbial Communities (2005, background): “Filtration and normalization techniques that enrich the library for certain low-abundance species, a common technique in the sequencing of symbionts, are thus of vital importance when genome assembly is a primary goal [22,23].”
Impact of natural oil and higher hydrocarbons on microbial diversity, distribution, and activity in Gulf of Mexico cold-seep sediments (2010, background): “…to oxidize methane by ‘‘reversing’’ methanogenesis reactions (i.e. ANMEs contain most of the genes of known methanogenic pathways (Hallam et al., 2003; Hallam et al., 2004; Krüger et al., 2003; Meyerdierks et al., 2005; Shima and Thauer, 2005)); this may occur because of back reaction during…”
MetaGene: prokaryotic gene finding from environmental genome shotgun sequences (2006, methodology): “This metagenomic approach has been applied to various environmental samples including an acid mine biofilm (3), the Sargasso Sea (4), Minnesota farm soil (5), whale falls (5) and deep sea sediments (6).”
MEGAN analysis of metagenomic data. (2007, background): “Recent projects based on these methodologies include data sets from an acid mine biofilm (Tyson et al. 2004), seawater samples (Venter et al. 2004; DeLong et al. 2006), deep-sea sediment ( Hallam et al. 2004 ), or soil and whale falls (Tringe et al. 2005).”
Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life (2008, background): “Genomic evidence indicates that anaerobic, methane-oxidizing archaea harbour nearly all of the genes necessary for methanogenesis, including mcrA”
Ecological Aspects of the Distribution of Different Autotrophic CO2 Fixation Pathways (2011, background): “For example, anaerobic methane oxidation with sulfate is thermodynamically less favorable than O2-mediated “anaerobic” methane oxidation with nitrite, and autotrophy proceeds in these species either via the reductive acetyl-CoA pathway or the CB cycle, with respect to the energy demands (32, 40).”
Microbial syntrophy: interaction for the common good. (2013, background): “For instance, based on genomic studies, it was shown that methanotrophic archaea in AOM communities harbor nearly all of the genes involved in the typical methane production machinery (Hallam et al., 2004).”
ECOLOGY OF COLD SEEP SEDIMENTS: INTERACTIONS OF FAUNA WITH FLOW, CHEMISTRY AND MICROBES (2005, background): “However, genome-based observations suggest that genes associated with methane production are present in ANME-1 and some ANME-2 methanotrophs (Hallam et al. 2004).”
The global methane cycle: recent advances in understanding the microbial processes involved. (2009, background): “ANME archaea contain gene homologues of the methylcoenzyme M reductase, the key enzyme of CH4 synthesis, suggesting that a similar enzyme may be involved in anaerobic oxidation of CH4 to CO2 (Hallam et al., 2004).”