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Oxford University Press (OUP) ISME Communications 4(1)
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    Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) by methanotrophic bacteria has been shown to play an important role in maintaining fertility. However, this process is still limited to aerobic methane oxidation with sufficient oxygen. It has remained unknown whether and how methanotrophic BNF proceeds in hypoxic environments. Herein, we incubated paddy soils with a ferrihydrite-containing mineral salt medium to enrich methanotrophic bacteria in the presence of methane (20%, v/v) under oxygen constraints (0.27%, v/v). The resulting microcosms showed that ferrihydrite-dependent aerobic methane oxidation significantly contributed (81%) to total BNF, increasing the <sup>15</sup>N fixation rate by 13-fold from 0.02 to 0.28 μmol <sup>15</sup>N<sub>2</sub> (g dry weight soil) <sup>-1</sup> d<sup>-1</sup>. BNF was reduced by 97% when ferrihydrite was omitted, demonstrating the involvement of ferrihydrite in methanotrophic BNF. DNA stable-isotope probing indicated that <i>Methylocystis</i>, <i>Methylophilaceae</i>, and <i>Methylomicrobium</i> were the dominant methanotrophs/methylotrophs that assimilated labeled isotopes (<sup>13</sup>C or <sup>15</sup>N) into biomass. Metagenomic binning combined with electrochemical analysis suggested that <i>Methylocystis</i> and <i>Methylophilaceae</i> had the potential to perform methane-induced BNF and likely utilized riboflavin and <i>c</i>-type cytochromes as electron carriers for ferrihydrite reduction. It was concluded that ferrihydrite mediated methanotrophic BNF by methanotrophs/methylotrophs solely or in conjunction with iron-reducing bacteria. Overall, this study revealed a previously overlooked yet pronounced coupling of iron-dependent aerobic methane oxidation to BNF and improves our understanding of methanotrophic BNF in hypoxic zones.

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