Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification

Mengxiong Wu; Tao Liu; Jianhua Guo

doi:10.1016/j.tim.2024.03.007

Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification

Trends Microbiol. 2024 Mar 22:S0966-842X(24)00073-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2024.03.007. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Mengxiong Wu¹, Tao Liu¹, Jianhua Guo²

Affiliations

¹ Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
² Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia. Electronic address: jianhua.guo@uq.edu.au.

PMID: 38521727
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2024.03.007

Abstract

Methane-dependent denitrification links the global nitrogen and methane cycles. Since its initial discovery in 2006, this process has been understood to involve a division of labor between an archaeal group and a bacterial group, which sequentially perform nitrate and nitrite reduction, respectively. Yao et al. have now revised this paradigm by identifying a Methylomirabilis bacterium capable of performing methane-dependent complete denitrification on its own.

Keywords: Methanoperedenaceae; Methylomirabilis; methane-dependent denitrification; nitrite/nitrate-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation.