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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81210-x
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- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO, Belgium) under the EAGLES (East African Great lake Ecosystem Sensitivity to Changes) [SD/AR/02A]
- Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) under the MICKI (Microbial diversity and processes in Lake Kivu) [1715859]
- FNRS [2.4.598.07]
- FNRS (<< Fonds pour la formation a la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture >>-FRIA)
- Walloon Institute of Sustainable Development [X.3007.17]
In the ferruginous and anoxic early Earth oceans, the connection between photoferrotrophy and ferric iron-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation (AOM) has been poorly investigated. The study of AOM in a modern analogue to the Archean Ocean suggests a potential metabolic process that could change the conceptualization and modeling of metabolic and geochemical processes controlling climate conditions in the Early Earth. Further experiments focusing on the interactions between photoferrotrophs and AOM are of considerable interest.
In the ferruginous and anoxic early Earth oceans, photoferrotrophy drove most of the biological production before the advent of oxygenic photosynthesis, but its association with ferric iron (Fe3+) dependent anaerobic methane (CH4) oxidation (AOM) has been poorly investigated. We studied AOM in Kabuno Bay, a modern analogue to the Archean Ocean (anoxic bottom waters and dissolved Fe concentrations >600 mu mol L-1). Aerobic and anaerobic CH4 oxidation rates up to 0.12 +/- 0.03 and 51 +/- 1 mu mol L-1 d(-1), respectively, were put in evidence. In the Fe oxidation-reduction zone, we observed high concentration of Bacteriochlorophyll e (biomarker of the anoxygenic photoautotrophs), which co-occurred with the maximum CH4 oxidation peaks, and a high abundance of Candidatus Methanoperedens, which can couple AOM to Fe3+ reduction. In addition, comparison of measured CH4 oxidation rates with electron acceptor fluxes suggest that AOM could mainly rely on Fe3+ produced by photoferrotrophs. Further experiments specifically targeted to investigate the interactions between photoferrotrophs and AOM would be of considerable interest. Indeed, ferric Fe3+-driven AOM has been poorly envisaged as a possible metabolic process in the Archean ocean, but this can potentially change the conceptualization and modelling of metabolic and geochemical processes controlling climate conditions in the Early Earth.
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