Methanogenesis Methanogenic bacteria

Methanogenesis. Finally, the products of either acidogenesis or acetogenesis are transformed into methane and carbon dioxide by the methanogenic bacteria. It is well known that this step is the limiting one in case of nonparticulate substrate or non-excessively complex organic matter. 

DiMarco, A. A., T. A. Bobik, and R. S. Wolfe, Unusual coenzymes of methanogenesis. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 59 355 (1990). A review of the recently characterized coenzymes required for the biosynthesis of methane in methanogenic bacteria. 

Methanogenesis is a highly specialized form of energy metabolism for which the methanogenic bacteria are uniquely adapted. The process of energy capture involves at least two steps in which transmembrane potentials are generated. In... 

Balderston W. L. and Payne W. J. (1976) Inhibition of methanogenesis in salt marsh sediments and whole-cell suspensions of methanogenic bacteria by nitrogenous oxides. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 32, 264-269. 

Methanogenic bacteria utilise the end products from the first phase and yield methane and carbon dioxide. This is also known as methanogenesis... 

These reductases play a key role both in methanogenesis and in the degradation of phenols that carry several nitro groups, which is discussed further in Chapter 9, Part 5. Although these reductases are typically found in methanogens, they have been encountered in a number of other bacteria and archaea ... 

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