Methane-Oxidizing Bacteria Shunt Carbon to Microbial Mats at a Marine Hydrocarbon Seep

Frontiers in Microbiology ◽

10.3389/fmicb.2017.00186 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Blair G. Paul ◽

Haibing Ding ◽

Sarah C. Bagby ◽

Matthias Y. Kellermann ◽

Molly C. Redmond ◽

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Keyword(s):

Microbial Mats ◽

Hydrocarbon Seep ◽

Methane Oxidizing Bacteria

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Mineral authigenesis within chemosynthetic microbial mats: Coated grain formation and phosphogenesis at a Cretaceous hydrocarbon seep, New Zealand

The Depositional Record ◽

10.1002/dep2.123 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Zwicker ◽

Daniel Smrzka ◽

Florian Steindl ◽

Michael E. Böttcher ◽

Eugen Libowitzky ◽

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Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Microbial Mats ◽

Hydrocarbon Seep ◽

Grain Formation

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Comparative surface and ultrastructural views of methylotrophic bacteria by TEM, STEM, SE, and freeze-etch electron microscopy.

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100128274 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 792-793

Author(s):

T.A. Fassel ◽

M.J. Schaller ◽

M.E. Lidstrom ◽

C.C. Remsen

Keyword(s):

Cytoplasmic Membrane ◽

Structural Features ◽

Methylotrophic Bacteria ◽

Type I ◽

Type Ii ◽

Membrane Complex ◽

Oxidation Of Methane ◽

Methane Oxidizing Bacteria ◽

Wall Structures ◽

Methylomonas Albus

Methylotrophic bacteria play an Important role in the environment in the oxidation of methane and methanol. Extensive intracytoplasmic membranes (ICM) have been associated with the oxidation processes in methylotrophs and chemolithotrophic bacteria. Classification on the basis of ICM arrangement distinguishes 2 types of methylotrophs. Bundles or vesicular stacks of ICM located away from the cytoplasmic membrane and extending into the cytoplasm are present in Type I methylotrophs. In Type II methylotrophs, the ICM form pairs of peripheral membranes located parallel to the cytoplasmic membrane. Complex cell wall structures of tightly packed cup-shaped subunits have been described in strains of marine and freshwater phototrophic sulfur bacteria and several strains of methane oxidizing bacteria. We examined the ultrastructure of the methylotrophs with particular view of the ICM and surface structural features, between representatives of the Type I Methylomonas albus (BG8), and Type II Methylosinus trichosporium (OB-36).

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