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ArticleNature communications2026

Carbon monoxide oxidation expands the known metabolic capacity in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia.

Yongzhao Guo, Daniel R Utter, Ranjani Murali, Victoria J Orphan

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yongzhao GuoDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Daniel R UtterDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3322-7108
Ranjani MuraliDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4073-9910
Victoria J OrphanDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. vorphan@caltech.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5374-6178

Funding

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) AWD-005316-G4U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-SC0022991
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Consortia of anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (ANME-2) and sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) represent globally relevant syntrophic associations capable of growing with minimal amounts of free energy and can persist when methane becomes limiting. Carbon monoxide (CO) has been reported in seep environments and represents a thermodynamically favourable alternative electron donor due to its low reduction potential. Here, we show that environmental ANME-SRB consortia can oxidize CO in the absence of methane, in anoxic microcosm experiments using a combination of stable isotope geochemical tracers, metatranscriptomics, and single cell activity measurements (FISH-nanoSIMS). The oxidation of CO was coupled with sulphate-reduction by syntrophic consortia, and, in the absence of sulphate, through CO

Indexed as

ArchaeaBacteriaCarbon MonoxideMethaneMicrobial ConsortiaAnaerobiosisCarbon DioxideOxidation-ReductionSulfatesCarbon DioxideCarbon MonoxideMethaneSulfates

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PMID41980960
PMCPMC13079720

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