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SUBMITTER: Cai Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4895445 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cai Yuanfeng Y Zheng Yan Y Bodelier Paul L E PL Conrad Ralf R Jia Zhongjun Z
Nature communications 20160601
Soils serve as the biological sink of the potent greenhouse gas methane with exceptionally low concentrations of ∼1.84 p.p.m.v. in the atmosphere. The as-yet-uncultivated methane-consuming bacteria have long been proposed to be responsible for this 'high-affinity' methane oxidation (HAMO). Here we show an emerging HAMO activity arising from conventional methanotrophs in paddy soil. HAMO activity was quickly induced during the low-affinity oxidation of high-concentration methane. Activity was los ...[more]