Enrichment of aerobic ethane-, propane- and butane-oxidizing microorganisms under acidic conditions
The aim is to identify the microbial taxa involved and elucidate the metabolic pathways responsible for the aerobic oxidation of ethane, propane, and butane under acidic conditions. This was achieved through long-term bioreactor experiments, batch tests, small subunit (SSU) rRNA gene sequencing, and integrated multi-omics analyses