High‐efficiency methane capture by living fungi and dried fungal hyphae (necromass)

Abstract

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Disentangling the Functional Role of Fungi in Cold Seep Sediment

“…However, keystone species analysis showed that fungi, at the least, play a role equally as important as those of key chemolithoautotrophic bacteria and archaea. Previous studies on filamentous fungi showed that hydrophobins, a group of proteins on the surface of fungal hyphae, give them the ability to solubilize otherwise insoluble inorganic compounds such as methane and polycyclic aromatic molecules by increasing the partition coefficient, increasing their bioavailability by magnitudes ( 37 , 77 , 78 ). Previously, Fusarium spp.…”