Research Article
Growth Characteristics of Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis and Expression of Methyltransferase Encoding Genes
Table 2
Comparison of growth yields.
| Organism | Substrate | YCH4 (g cells/mol CH4) | Reference |
| Methanogens without cytochromes | Methanobacterium marburgensis | H2 + CO2 | Up to 3.0 | [24] | Methanobrevibacter arboriphilus | H2 + CO2 | Up to 2.7 | [25] | Methanobacterium bryantii | H2 + CO2 | Up to 2.5 | [26] | Methanospirillum hungatei | H2 + CO2 | Up to 1.0 | [27] | Methanosphaera stadtmanae | Methanol + H2 | 4.0 | [9] | Methanomassiliicoccus luminyensis | Methanol + H2 TMA + H2 | 2.4 2.4 | This work This work |
| Methanogens with cytochromes | Methanosarcina barkeri | H2 + CO2 Methanol Acetate | Up to 7.5 Up to 7.2 Up to 2.1 | [24] [28] [29] | Methanosarcina sp. strain 227 | H2 + CO2 Methanol Acetate | Up to 8.7 Up to 6.0 Up to 2.7 | [30] [30] [30] |
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