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  • Title: [Potential activity of methane and ammonia oxidation by methanotropic communities from soda lakes of the southern Transbaikal].
    Author: Khmelenina VN, Eshinimaev BTs, Kaliuzhnaia MG, Trotsenko IuA.
    Journal: Mikrobiologiia; 2000; 69(4):553-8. PubMed ID: 11008692.
    Abstract:
    Radioisotopic measurements of the methane consumption by mud samples taken from nine Southern Transbaikal soda lakes (pH 9.5-10.6) showed an intense oxidation of methane in the muds of lakes Khuzhirta, Bumalai Nur, Gorbunka, and Suduntuiskii Torom, with the maximum oxidation rate in the mud of lakes Khuzhirta (33.2 nmol/(ml day)). The incorporation rate of the radioactive label from 14CH4 into 14CO2 was higher than into acid-stable metabolites. Optimum pH values for methane oxidation in water samples were 7-8, whereas mud samples exhibited two peaks of methane oxidation activity (at pH 8.15-9.4 and 5.8-7.0). The majority of samples could oxidize ammonium to nitrites; the oxidation was inhibited by methane. The PCR amplification analysis of samples revealed the presence of genes encoding soluble and particulate methane monooxygenase and methanol dehydrogenase. Three alkaliphilic methanotrophic bacteria of morphotype I were isolated from mud samples in pure cultures, one of which, B5, was able to oxidize ammonium to nitrites at pH 7-11. The data obtained suggest that methanotrophs are widely spread in the soda lakes of Southern Transbaikal, where they actively oxidize methane and ammonium.
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