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ToolsYun, Juanli, Crombie, Andrew T., Haque, Muhammad Farhan Ul, Cai, Yuanfeng, Zheng, Xiaowei, Wang, Jian, Jia, Zhongjun, Murrell, J. Colin, Wang, Yanfen and Du, Wenbin (2021) Revealing the community and metabolic potential of active methanotrophs by targeted metagenomics in the Zoige wetland of the Tibetan Plateau. Environmental Microbiology, 23 (11). pp. 6520-6535. ISSN 1462-2912
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Abstract
The Zoige wetland of the Tibetan Plateau is one of the largest alpine wetlands in the world and a major emission source of methane. Methane oxidation by methanotrophs can counteract the global warming effect of methane released in the wetlands. Understanding methanotroph activity, diversity and metabolism at the molecular level can guide the isolation of the uncultured microorganisms and inform strategy-making decisions and policies to counteract global warming in this unique ecosystem. Here we applied DNA stable isotope probing using 13C-labelled methane to label the genomes of active methanotrophs, examine the methane oxidation potential and recover metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of active methanotrophs. We found that gammaproteobacteria of type I methanotrophs are responsible for methane oxidation in the wetland. We recovered two phylogenetically novel methanotroph MAGs distantly related to extant Methylobacter and Methylovulum. They belong to type I methanotrophs of gammaproteobacteria, contain both mxaF and xoxF types of methanol dehydrogenase coding genes, and participate in methane oxidation via H 4MPT and RuMP pathways. Overall, the community structure of active methanotrophs and their methanotrophic pathways revealed by DNA-SIP metagenomics and retrieved methanotroph MAGs highlight the importance of methanotrophs in suppressing methane emission in the wetland under the scenario of global warming.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | microbiology,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2400/2404 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Molecular Microbiology Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2021 00:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2023 01:06 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81147 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1462-2920.15697 |
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