Diverse and Novel nifH and nifH -Like Gene Sequences in the Deep-Sea Methane Seep Sediments of the Okhotsk Sea

ABSTRACT Diverse nifH and nifH -like gene sequences were obtained from the deep-sea surface sediments of the methane hydrate-bearing Okhotsk Sea. Some sequences formed novel families of the NifH or NifH-like proteins, of currently unresolved bacterial or archaeal origin. Comparison with other marine...

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Published in:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Main Authors: Dang, Hongyue, Luan, Xiwu, Zhao, Jingyi, Li, Jing
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2009
Subjects:
Okhotsk
Methane hydrate
okhotsk sea
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02556-08
https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.02556-08
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Summary:ABSTRACT Diverse nifH and nifH -like gene sequences were obtained from the deep-sea surface sediments of the methane hydrate-bearing Okhotsk Sea. Some sequences formed novel families of the NifH or NifH-like proteins, of currently unresolved bacterial or archaeal origin. Comparison with other marine environments indicates environmental specificity of some of the sequences, either unique to the methane seep sediments of the Okhotsk Sea or to the general deep-sea methane seep sedimentary environments.

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