Sophia Adler

Keywords archaea methanogens ATPase methyl-coenzyme M redcutase Methanosarcina Introduction Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR)-encoding archaea play a prominent role in the global methane cycle by catalyzing a reversible reaction shown below1: CH3−S−CoM+CoB−SH↔CH4+CoM−S−S−CoB In methanogenic archaea, MCR mediates the final step of methanogenesis to generate methane.

Boston Area Gleaners relies on volunteers for many aspects of its operations. One main way is through its “gleaning trips,” where volunteers come out to harvest farms’ extra food. I recently went on my first gleaning trip and found it to be even more meaningful and fun than I expected: learning about different crops, meeting others with similar values, harvesting and boxing veggies, and feeling I made a difference with the 6,496 servings of fresh produce we collected.