Archaeal physiology articles within Nature

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• Article | 22 December 2021

  Non-syntrophic methanogenic hydrocarbon degradation by an archaeal species

  ‘Candidatus Methanoliparum’ overexpresses genes encoding alkyl-coenzyme M and methyl-coenzyme M reductases—markers of archaeal multicarbon alkane and methane metabolism—and thrives on a variety of long-chain alkanes and n-alkylcyclohexanes, and n-alkylbenzenes with long n-alkyl (C_≥13) moieties.

  • Zhuo Zhou
  • , Cui-jing Zhang
  •  & Lei Cheng

• Letter | 27 March 2019

  Anaerobic oxidation of ethane by archaea from a marine hydrocarbon seep

  An archaeon, ‘Candidatus Argoarchaeum ethanivorans’, which is involved in the oxidation of ethane observed in anoxic marine habitats, is identified and metabolically characterized.

  • Song-Can Chen
  • , Niculina Musat
  •  & Florin Musat

• Article | 17 October 2016

  Thermophilic archaea activate butane via alkyl-coenzyme M formation

  Anaerobic archaea enriched in thermophilic microbial consortia completely degrade butane by modifying mechanisms which were hitherto thought to be specific to methane metabolism.

  • Rafael Laso-Pérez
  • , Gunter Wegener
  •  & Florin Musat

• News & Views | 07 November 2012

  A piece of the methane puzzle

  The identification of a sea-floor microorganism that single-handedly conducts anaerobic oxidation of methane changes our picture of how the flux of this greenhouse gas from the ocean to the atmosphere is regulated. See Article p.541

  • Samantha B. Joye