title: Novel biochemistry of methanogenesis.
abstract: The biochemical diversity of life reaches an extreme in a group of highly specialized archaebacteria known as the methanogens where novel coenzymes are involved in the biochemistry of methanogenesis.
mesh_terms: D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism; D019605:Euryarchaeota / Q000378:metabolism*; D015080:Mesna / Q000378:metabolism; D008697:Methane / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D010088:Oxidoreductases; C023895:methyl coenzyme M methylreductase; D015080:Mesna; D008697:Methane