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]