Wide diversity of methane and short-chain alkane metabolisms in uncultured archaea
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Nature Microbiology
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group UK
- Publication Date
- Mar 04, 2019
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 603–613
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0363-3
- Source
- Springer Nature
- License
- Yellow
Abstract
A search for methyl-coenzyme M reductase complex (MCR) and MCR-like homologues—which govern methane and short-chain alkane metabolism—across publicly available metagenomes reveals that these metabolic pathways are widespread and diverse in archaea, and may in some organisms be linked to alkane and/or fatty acid oxidation.