{"id":66203,"date":"2019-09-05T06:51:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T04:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=66203"},"modified":"2019-08-31T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T14:59:12","slug":"all-in-one-re%c2%adcently-dis%c2%adcovered-mi%c2%adcrobe-de%c2%adgrades-oil-to-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/all-in-one-re%c2%adcently-dis%c2%adcovered-mi%c2%adcrobe-de%c2%adgrades-oil-to-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"All-in-one: Re\u00adcently dis\u00adcovered mi\u00adcrobe de\u00adgrades oil to gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tiny or\u00adgan\u00adisms cling to oil droplets and per\u00adform a great feat: As a single or\u00adgan\u00adism, they may pro\u00adduce meth\u00adane from oil by a pro\u00adcess called al\u00adkane dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00ada\u00adtion. Pre\u00advi\u00adously this was only known from sym\u00adbi\u00adoses between bac\u00adteria and ar\u00adchaea. Sci\u00adent\u00adists from the Max Planck In\u00adsti\u00adtute for Mar\u00adine Mi\u00adcro\u00adbi\u00ado\u00adlogy and MARUM have now found cells of this mi\u00adcrobe called\u00a0 Meth\u00adan\u00adol\u00adi\u00adparia in oil reser\u00advoirs world\u00adwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mus\u00adsels
Mus\u00adsels at an oil spill in the Gulf of Mex\u00adico. Photo: MARUM \u2013 Cen\u00adter for Mar\u00adine En\u00advir\u00adon\u00admental Sci\u00adences, Uni\u00adversity of Bre\u00admen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crude oil and gas nat\u00adur\u00adally es\u00adcape from the seabed in many places known as \u201cseeps\u201d. There, these hy\u00addro\u00adcar\u00adbons move up from source rocks through frac\u00adtures and sed\u00adi\u00adments to\u00adwards the sur\u00adface, where they leak out of the ground and sus\u00adtain a di\u00adversity of densely pop\u00adu\u00adlated hab\u00adit\u00adats in the dark ocean. A large part of the hy\u00addro\u00adcar\u00adbons, primar\u00adily al\u00adkanes, is already de\u00adgraded be\u00adfore it reaches the sed\u00adi\u00adment sur\u00adface. Even deep down in the sed\u00adi\u00adment, where no oxy\u00adgen ex\u00adists, it provides an im\u00adport\u00adant en\u00adergy source for sub\u00adsur\u00adface mi\u00adcroor\u00adgan\u00adisms, amongst them some of the so-called ar\u00adchaea.<\/p>\n

\"The
The submersible vehicle MARUM-QUEST samples for sediment at oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo: MARUM \u2013 Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now a study led by sci\u00adent\u00adists from the Max Planck In\u00adsti\u00adtute for Mar\u00adine Mi\u00adcro\u00adbi\u00ado\u00adlogy in Bre\u00admen, Ger\u00admany, and MARUM – Cen\u00adter for Mar\u00adine En\u00advir\u00adon\u00admental Sci\u00adences, provides en\u00advir\u00adon\u00admental in\u00adform\u00ada\u00adtion, gen\u00adomes and first im\u00adages of a mi\u00adcrobe that has the po\u00adten\u00adtial to trans\u00adform long-chain hy\u00addro\u00adcar\u00adbons to meth\u00adane. Their res\u00adults are pub\u00adlished in the journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tiny or\u00adgan\u00adisms cling to oil droplets and per\u00adform a great feat: As a single or\u00adgan\u00adism, they may pro\u00adduce meth\u00adane from oil by a pro\u00adcess called al\u00adkane dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00ada\u00adtion. Pre\u00advi\u00adously this was only known from sym\u00adbi\u00adoses between bac\u00adteria and ar\u00adchaea. Sci\u00adent\u00adists from the Max Planck In\u00adsti\u00adtute for Mar\u00adine Mi\u00adcro\u00adbi\u00ado\u00adlogy and MARUM have now found cells of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[13407,14177],"supplier":[5598,16086,1757,732,100],"class_list":["post-66203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-marine","tag-microbiology","supplier-alfred-wegener-institut-helmholtz-zentrum-fur-polar-und-meeresforschung-bremerhaven","supplier-marum-zentrum-fuer-marine-umweltwissenschaften","supplier-max-planck-institut-fuer-marine-mikrobiologie","supplier-universitaet-bremen","supplier-universitaet-wageningen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66203"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=66203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}