Direct interspecies electron transfer enables anaerobic oxidation of sulfide to elemental sulfur coupled with CO₂-reducing methanogenesis.

ABSTRACT: Electric syntrophy between fatty acid oxidizers and methanogens through direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) is essential for balancing acidogenesis and methanogenesis in anaerobic digestion. Promoting DIET using electrically conductive additives proved effective in enhancing methanogenesis; however, its possibility to affect other microbial redox reactions in methanogenic systems has been little studied. This study provides the first confirmation of the electro-syntrophic coupling of sulfide oxidation to S⁰ with CO₂-reducing methanogenesis in sulfur-rich methanogenic cultures supplemented with conductive magnetite (100-700-nm particle size). The H₂S content in biogas, initially exceeding 5000 ppmv, decreased to below 1 ppmv along with an accumulati

SUBMITTER: Jung H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10448109 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature