Biological methane formation in deep subsurface environments

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22654066
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Geochemistry/Astrochemistry
• Research Institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: KAMAGATA Yoichi 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, 生物プロセス研究部門, 研究部門長 (70356814)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: メタン生成古細菌 / 深部地下圏 / 高圧培養 / 共生微生物 / メタンハイドレート

Research Abstract

Methane is known to be a storage gas in deep subsurface environments. Controversy over biological methanogenesis under subsurface environments still remains unsolved. We cultivated 1) Methanothermobacter thermautotrophics in pure culture using formate as

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Methanothermobacter tenebrarum sp. nov., a hydrogenotrophic thermophilic methanogen isolated from gas-associated formation water of a natural gas field in Japan (2013)
  • Author(s): Nakamura, K., A. Takahashi, C. Mori, H. Tamaki, H. Mochimaru, K. Nakamura, K. Takamizawa, and, Y. Kamagata
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.
  • DOI: DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.041681-0.
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] メタン生成古細菌の多様性と機能. (2011)
  • Author(s): 鎌形洋一
  • Organizer: 第3回メタン高度利用技術シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 長岡技術科学大学.
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-05
• [Book] 無酸素環境における共生微生物の実態解明 (2012)
  • Author(s): 鎌形洋一
  • Total Pages: 706-707
  • Publisher: 生物工学