Biochemistry of aerobic biological methane oxidation

CW Koo, AC Rosenzweig - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Methanotrophic bacteria represent a potential route to methane utilization and mitigation of
methane emissions. In the first step of their metabolic pathway, aerobic methanotrophs use …

Direct Methane Oxidation by Copper-and Iron-Dependent Methane Monooxygenases

FJ Tucci, AC Rosenzweig - Chemical reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to climate change and is
primarily regulated in Nature by methanotrophic bacteria, which consume methane gas as …

The ModelSEED Biochemistry Database for the integration of metabolic annotations and the reconstruction, comparison and analysis of metabolic models for plants …

SMD Seaver, F Liu, Q Zhang, J Jeffryes… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
For over 10 years, ModelSEED has been a primary resource for the construction of draft
genome-scale metabolic models based on annotated microbial or plant genomes. Now …

Biotransformation of methane and carbon dioxide into high-value products by methanotrophs: current state of art and future prospects

KK Sahoo, G Goswami, D Das - Frontiers in microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Conventional chemical methods to transform methane and carbon dioxide into useful
chemicals are plagued by the requirement for extreme operating conditions and expensive …

Engineered methanotrophy: a sustainable solution for methane-based industrial biomanufacturing

AD Nguyen, EY Lee - Trends in Biotechnology, 2021 - cell.com
Methane is a promising feedstock with high abundance and low cost for the sustainable
production of biochemicals and biofuels. Methanotrophic bacteria are particularly interesting …

[HTML][HTML] From renewable energy to sustainable protein sources: Advancement, challenges, and future roadmaps

B Khoshnevisan, L He, M Xu, B Valverde-Pérez… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The concerns over food security and protein scarcity, driven by population increase and
higher standards of living, have pushed scientists toward finding new protein sources. A …

Methanotrophs: Metabolic versatility from utilization of methane to multi-carbon sources and perspectives on current and future applications

HTQ Le, EY Lee - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of biorefineries for a sustainable bioeconomy has been driven by the
concept of utilizing environmentally friendly and cost-effective renewable energy sources …

Native top-down mass spectrometry provides insights into the copper centers of membrane-bound methane monooxygenase

SY Ro, LF Schachner, CW Koo, R Purohit… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Aerobic methane oxidation is catalyzed by particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO), a
copper-dependent, membrane metalloenzyme composed of subunits PmoA, PmoB, and …

Methane monooxygenases: central enzymes in methanotrophy with promising biotechnological applications

MLK Khider, T Brautaset, M Irla - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2021 - Springer
Worldwide, the use of methane is limited to generating power, electricity, heating, and for
production of chemicals. We believe this valuable gas can be employed more widely. Here …

Resource recovery from waste streams in a water-energy-food nexus perspective: Toward more sustainable food processing

IA Udugama, LAH Petersen, FC Falco… - Food and Bioproducts …, 2020 - Elsevier
The recovery of resources from waste streams including food production plants can improve
the overall sustainability of such processes from both economic and environmental points of …