New publication by Mauerhofer et al. in communications biology

05.03.2021

"Hyperthermophilic methanogenic archaea act as high-pressure CH4 cell factories"

New publication in communications biology by Lisa-Maria Mauerhofer, Sara Zwirtmayr, Patricia Pappenreiter, Sebastien Bernacchi, Arne H. Seifert, Barbara Reischl, Tilman Schmider, Ruth-Sophie Taubner, Christian Paulik and Simon K.-M. R. Rittmann:

 

"Hyperthermophilic methanogenic archaea act as high-pressure CH4 cell factories"

Mauerhofer et al. examine 80 species of methanogenic archaea at pressures up to 50 bar identifying M. igneus and M. jannaschii as high-pressure methane cell factories.

 

Original paper:

Commun Biol, DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-01828-5

Hyperthermophilic methanogenic archaea act as high-pressure CH4 cell factories

Lisa-Maria Mauerhofer, Sara Zwirtmayr, Patricia Pappenreiter, Sebastien Bernacchi, Arne H. Seifert, Barbara Reischl, Tilman Schmider, Ruth-Sophie Taubner, Christian Paulik, Simon K.-M. R. Rittmann

 

Full article: Hyperthermophilic methanogenic archaea act as high-pressure CH 4 cell factories | Communications Biology (nature.com)

Lisa-Maria Mauerhofer

Barbara Reischl

Ruth-Sophie Taubner

Simon Rittmann