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Fe(III) reduction and biological nitrogen fixation mediated by a methane-oxidizing consortium and their coupling mechanism
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Shu’an LI, Linpeng YU*, Lin YANG, Yanxi SHEN, Shungui ZHOU
Acta Microbiologica Sinica | 2025, 65(6) : 2449 - 2462
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Fe(III) reduction and biological nitrogen fixation mediated by a methane-oxidizing consortium and their coupling mechanism
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Shu’an LI, Linpeng YU*, Lin YANG, Yanxi SHEN, Shungui ZHOU
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  • College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Published: 2025-06-04 doi: 10.13343/j.cnki.wsxb.20240723
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[Objective] Iron reduction-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane (Fe-AOM) is an important pathway for methane emission reduction in anaerobic environments. However, it remains unclear how methane-oxidizing microbes perform Fe-AOM under nitrogen-limiting conditions. [Methods] Focusing on a methane-oxidizing consortium and ferrihydrite, this study employed nitrogen isotope tracing, three-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy, electrochemical analysis, and high-throughput sequencing to investigate the Fe-AOM efficiency and the possibility of coupling Fe-AOM with biological nitrogen fixation under nitrogen-limiting conditions. [Results] The methane-oxidizing consortium was able to catalyze Fe-AOM under nitrogen-limiting conditions, reducing ferrihydrite to minerals such as siderite. The nitrogenase activity and 15N assimilation of the methane-oxidizing consortium in the presence of methane were significantly higher than those in the absence of methane, which demonstrated that the consortium could couple Fe-AOM with biological nitrogen fixation. Three-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy and electrochemical analysis revealed that Fe-AOM promoted the production of dissolved protein-like substances, enhanced the redox activity of the methane-oxidizing consortium, and reduced ferrihydrite via direct electron transfer. Microbial community structure analysis showed significant enrichment of Methanobacterium (19.32%), iron-reducing bacteria such as Geobacter (6.14%) and Desulfovibrio (17.52%), as well as nitrogen-fixing bacteria like Azoarcus (1.69%) and Azospirillum (0.43%) during the Fe-AOM process. DNA-SIP analysis found that Azoarcus was significantly enriched in the heavy fraction of the labeled isotope group, confirming that it fixed isotope nitrogen. [Conclusion] It is thus hypothesized that the coupling of Fe-AOM with biological nitrogen fixation was primarily carried out by Methanobacterium which oxidized methane, Geobacter and Desulfovibrio responsible for the reduction of ferrihydrite, and Azoarcus catalyzing biological nitrogen fixation. Additionally, the positive correlations of the methane-oxidizing bacterium Methylocystis with iron-reducing bacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria suggested a certain contribution of Methylocystis to this process. These results provide new insights into understanding iron-dependent methane oxidation and nitrogen fixation in anaerobic environments.

anaerobic methane oxidation  /  iron reduction  /  biological nitrogen fixation  /  high-throughput sequencing
Shu’an LI, Linpeng YU, Lin YANG, Yanxi SHEN, Shungui ZHOU. Fe(III) reduction and biological nitrogen fixation mediated by a methane-oxidizing consortium and their coupling mechanism[J]. Acta Microbiologica Sinica, 2025 , 65 (6) : 2449 -2462 . DOI: 10.13343/j.cnki.wsxb.20240723
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China(42477255)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China(42077284)
  • Science and Technology Innovation Special Fund of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University(KFB23121)
Year 2025 volume 65 Issue 6
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doi: 10.13343/j.cnki.wsxb.20240723
  • Receive Date:2024-11-14
  • Online Date:2026-02-07
  • Published:2025-06-04
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  • Received:2024-11-14
  • Accepted:2025-01-22
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National Natural Science Foundation of China(42477255)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(42077284)
Science and Technology Innovation Special Fund of Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University(KFB23121)
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    College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

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表12种不同金属材料的力学参数

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属数
Number of
genus
种数
Number of
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占总种数比例
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种数
Number of
species
占总种数比例
Percentage of total
species (%)
鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae 2 11 5.26 鹅膏菌属 Amanita 10 4.78
小菇科 Mycenaceae 2 12 5.74 丝盖伞属 Inocybe 5 2.39
多孔菌科 Polyporaceae 8 14 6.70 蜡蘑属 Laccaria 5 2.39
红菇科 Russulaceae 3 23 11.00 小皮伞属 Marasmius 6 2.87
小菇属 Mycena 11 5.26
光柄菇属 Pluteus 5 2.39
红菇属 Russula 17 8.13
栓菌属 Trametes 5 2.39
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