{"id":211735,"date":"2025-04-18T02:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/microbiologists-discover-new-species-of-methane-producing-archaea-in-the-human-gut"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:17:19","slug":"microbiologists-discover-new-species-of-methane-producing-archaea-in-the-human-gut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/microbiologists-discover-new-species-of-methane-producing-archaea-in-the-human-gut","title":{"rendered":"Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microbiologists-discover-new-species-of-methane-producing-archaea-in-the-human-gut2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ\u2014German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)\u2014and the University of Illinois (U.S.) has identified and described a previously unknown species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. (strain WWM1085).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a new variant of the species Methanobrevibacter smithii, which is referred to as GRAZ-2, was isolated. The scientists have thus taken another important step toward understanding the interaction between humans and the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microbiome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microbiome<\/a>. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microbiologyresearch.org\/content\/journal\/ijsem\/10.1099\/ijsem.0.006751\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ\u2014German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)\u2014and the University of Illinois (U.S.) has identified and described a previously unknown species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. (strain WWM1085). In addition, a new variant of the species [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}