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Active methylotrophic methanogenesis by a microbial consortium enriched from a terrestrial meteorite impact crater.

Femke van Dam, George Westmeijer, Maryam Rezaei Somee, Marcelo Ketzer, Riikka Kietäväinen, Shuhei Ono, Stefan Bertilsson, Jennifer C McIntosh, Mark Dopson, Henrik Drake

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10 authors.

Femke van DamCentre for the Environment (CENWIN), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5526-5044
George WestmeijerCentre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial model Systems (EEMiS), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
Maryam Rezaei SomeeCentre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial model Systems (EEMiS), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
Marcelo KetzerCentre for the Environment (CENWIN), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
Riikka KietäväinenGeological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland.
Shuhei OnoDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Stefan BertilssonDepartment of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-4265-1835
Jennifer C McIntoshDepartment of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Mark DopsonCentre for the Environment (CENWIN), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
Henrik DrakeCentre for the Environment (CENWIN), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7230-6509

Funding

NSF FRES SMRFS grant EAR 2120733U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute DE-AC02-05CH11231
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial methane generation (methanogenesis) is an important metabolic process in the terrestrial deep biosphere and is an analog to early Earth as it is proposed to be one of the most ancient metabolisms on Earth. Signs of methanogenesis in meteorite impact craters are of particular interest in this respect as these settings are proposed hot spots for deep microbial colonization of the upper crust. Yet, reports of active deep rock-hosted methanogenesis are scarce, particularly for methylotrophic methanogenesis, while reports from terrestrial meteorite impact craters are completely lacking. Here, we used indigenous communities in cultures enriched from 400-m deep fluids to confirm and characterize active methane production from several carbon donors, including indigenous oil, in a terrestrial impact crater at Siljan, Sweden. Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data of the methane-producing cultures revealed a consortium dominated by

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MeteoroidsMethaneMicrobial ConsortiaArchaeaBacteriaMetagenomicsPhylogenySwedenMethaneArchaeametagenomicsmetatranscriptomicsmethanogenesismethylotrophy

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PMID41288100
PMCPMC12802149

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