Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia

Peter F. Dunfield (), Anton Yuryev, Pavel Senin, Angela V. Smirnova, Matthew B. Stott, Shaobin Hou, Binh Ly, Jimmy H. Saw, Zhemin Zhou, Yan Ren, Jianmei Wang, Bruce W. Mountain, Michelle A. Crowe, Tina M. Weatherby, Paul L. E. Bodelier, Werner Liesack, Lu Feng, Lei Wang () and Maqsudul Alam ()
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Peter F. Dunfield: GNS Science, Extremophile Research Group, Private Bag 2000, Taupo, New Zealand
Anton Yuryev: Ariadne Genomics, Inc., 9430 Key West Avenue no. 113, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
Pavel Senin: University of Hawaii, Snyder Hall no. 207, 2538 The Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Angela V. Smirnova: GNS Science, Extremophile Research Group, Private Bag 2000, Taupo, New Zealand
Matthew B. Stott: GNS Science, Extremophile Research Group, Private Bag 2000, Taupo, New Zealand
Shaobin Hou: University of Hawaii, Snyder Hall no. 207, 2538 The Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Binh Ly: University of Hawaii, Snyder Hall no. 207, 2538 The Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Jimmy H. Saw: University of Hawaii, Snyder Hall no. 207, 2538 The Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Zhemin Zhou: TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, 23 HongDa Street, Tianjin 300457, China
Yan Ren: TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, 23 HongDa Street, Tianjin 300457, China
Jianmei Wang: TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, 23 HongDa Street, Tianjin 300457, China
Bruce W. Mountain: GNS Science, Extremophile Research Group, Private Bag 2000, Taupo, New Zealand
Michelle A. Crowe: GNS Science, Extremophile Research Group, Private Bag 2000, Taupo, New Zealand
Tina M. Weatherby: Biological Electron Microscopy Facility, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Snyder Hall no. 118, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Paul L. E. Bodelier: Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Centre for Limnology, Rijksstraatweg 6, 3631 AC, Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands
Werner Liesack: Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse, 35043 Marburg, Germany
Lu Feng: TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, 23 HongDa Street, Tianjin 300457, China
Lei Wang: TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, 23 HongDa Street, Tianjin 300457, China
Maqsudul Alam: University of Hawaii, Snyder Hall no. 207, 2538 The Mall, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA

Nature, 2007, vol. 450, issue 7171, 879-882

Abstract: Passing the acid test Bacteria that consume the greenhouse gas methane are potentially important players in the atmospheric budget, with the potential to sop up methane from the Earth's crust that would otherwise contribute to the atmospheric budget. Two new methane-utilizing bacteria have been isolated independently and both break new ground: unlike previous methanotrophic isolates, which are proteobacteria, they belong to the widely distributed Verrucomicrobia phylum. And both isolates display optimum growth and methane oxidation in remarkably acidic conditions, at pHs as low as 0.8 to 2.5. Acidimethylosilex fumarolicum SolV was isolated from a fuming vent on the Solfatara volcano near Naples, Italy, and Methylokorus infernorum from hot soil in the Hell's Gate (Tikitere) geothermal area of New Zealand.

Date: 2007
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