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Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain hydrocarbons by marine sulphate-reducing bacteria

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  • Olaf Kniemeyer

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
    Present address: Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, D-07745 Jena, Germany.)

  • Florin Musat

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany)

  • Stefan M. Sievert

    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02536, USA)

  • Katrin Knittel

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany)

  • Heinz Wilkes

    (GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany)

  • Martin Blumenberg

    (Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Bundesstraße 55, University of Hamburg)

  • Walter Michaelis

    (Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Bundesstraße 55, University of Hamburg)

  • Arno Classen

    (Institute for Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University)

  • Carsten Bolm

    (Institute for Organic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University)

  • Samantha B. Joye

    (University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-3636, USA)

  • Friedrich Widdel

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1, D-28359 Bremen, Germany)

Abstract

Natural gas guzzlers There has been an increasing interest in organisms thriving at marine gas seeps, in particular microbes that utilize methane. Surprisingly, there seems to have been comparatively little work done on the fate of the other abundant hydrocarbons in natural gases — ethane, propane and butane. Now sediments collected from hydrocarbon seep areas in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California have yielded microbial cultures that utilize propane and butane under anoxic conditions similar to those prevailing in gas reservoirs. These biochemically unusual bacteria may be responsible for the observed alteration of gases in seeps and other gas reservoirs.

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  • Olaf Kniemeyer & Florin Musat & Stefan M. Sievert & Katrin Knittel & Heinz Wilkes & Martin Blumenberg & Walter Michaelis & Arno Classen & Carsten Bolm & Samantha B. Joye & Friedrich Widdel, 2007. "Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain hydrocarbons by marine sulphate-reducing bacteria," Nature, Nature, vol. 449(7164), pages 898-901, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:449:y:2007:i:7164:d:10.1038_nature06200
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06200
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