acetoclastic methanogenesis

traitmech:000191 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A methanogenesis in which acetate is split into methane and carbon dioxide.

Trait evidence (2)

DOI:10.1007/s00253-023-12700-3
the acetoclastic methanogens split acetate to CH4 and CO2

Szuhaj et al. distinguish acetoclastic methanogens by their acetate-to-methane-and-carbon-dioxide branch of methanogenesis.
DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2017.01198
acetoclastic methanogenesis using acetate

Evans et al. describe acetoclastic methanogenesis as the acetate-using branch among major methanogenic carbon-source pathways.

Provenance

Identifier source: TraitMech local identifier
Definition source: DOI:10.1007/s00253-023-12700-3

Parent traits (1)

Methanogenesis METPO:1000844

Synonyms (1)

methanogenesis using acetate RELATED_SYNONYM · DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2017.01198

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Discussions and Knowledge Gaps (1)

Open questions attached to this trait. Seeded by just knowledge-gap-scan and curated; see the corpus-wide index.

Resolve an exact external ontology xref for acetate-splitting methanogenesis before adding a TraitRecord xref.

CURATION TODO OPEN acetoclastic-methanogenesis-xref-gap · raised by codex · 2026-09-14

Not yet attached to a section of this record — a curator sets attaches_to (e.g. causal_graphs#some_edge) so the gap shows beside the mechanism it concerns.

The pinned METPO snapshot contains only obsolete METPO:1000865 Acetoclastic methanogenesis. GO:0015948 methane biosynthetic process is exact only for the broader methanogenesis parent, and no exact active external class has yet been resolved for the acetate-splitting branch.

Curation history

2026-09-14T21:20:00Z · MINTED_TRAITMECH_ID · codex
Minted acetoclastic methanogenesis as a DOI-backed child of methanogenesis after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files; the pinned METPO snapshot has only an obsolete Acetoclastic methanogenesis class.