Exploring the Black Box of Archaeal Methane Metabolism

探索古细菌甲烷代谢的黑匣子

• 批准号: FT210100812
• 负责人: Dr Paul Evans
• 金额: $ 50.18万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT210100812
• 关键词: Exploring; Black; Box; Archaeal; Methane

This project aims to build on new discoveries about how ancient microorganisms belonging to the Archaea that process methane, a significant greenhouse gas. This project expects to generate new data about how these novel Archaea are able to generate/digest methane and other non-methane carbon substrates through metabolic pathways using an interdisciplinary approach. Expected outcomes of this Project include improved techniques to grow these ancient microorganisms, investigate how they process methane, and understand how they contribute to the global carbon cycle. This will provide significant benefits, such as understanding the how the cycling of methane and non-methane compounds by novel Archaea can be manipulated in anaerobic environments.

该项目的目的是建立在新发现的基础上，即古代微生物是如何处理甲烷的，甲烷是一种重要的温室气体。该项目预计将产生新的数据，这些新的生物能够通过跨学科的方法通过代谢途径产生/消化甲烷和其他非甲烷碳底物。该项目的预期成果包括改进培养这些古老微生物的技术，研究它们如何处理甲烷，并了解它们如何对全球碳循环做出贡献。这将提供显着的好处，如了解如何循环的甲烷和非甲烷化合物的新的藻类可以在厌氧环境中操纵。