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Title    Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria Can Produce Methane
Date    Wednesday January 17 2018, @02:24AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the that-smell-again dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/01/16/1425215

takyon writes:

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are a source of methane in the atmosphere:

An unexpected source of methane in the environment has been inadvertently discovered.

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria are the chief means by which nitrogen gas in the air is changed into a form that plants and animals can use. Roughly 10 percent of these nitrogen-fixing microorganisms contain the genetic code for manufacturing a back-up enzyme, called iron iron-only nitrogenase, to do their job.

Recent research reveals that this enzyme allows these microorganisms to convert nitrogen gas to ammonia and carbon dioxide into methane at the same time. The ammonia is the main product; the methane is only a sideline.

This enzymatic pathway is a previously unknown route for the natural biological production of methane.

A pathway for biological methane production using bacterial iron-only nitrogenase (DOI: 10.1038/s41564-017-0091-5) (DX)


Original Submission

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "source of methane" - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180115120551.htm
  3. "A pathway for biological methane production using bacterial iron-only nitrogenase" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-017-0091-5
  4. "DX" - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-017-0091-5
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24342

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