Reversing methanogenesis to capture methane for liquid biofuel precursors.
Soo VW, McAnulty MJ, Tripathi A, Zhu F, Zhang L, Hatzakis E, Smith PB, Agrawal S, Nazem-Bokaee H, Gopalakrishnan S, Salis HM, Ferry JG, Maranas CD, Patterson AD, Wood TK.
Soo VW, et al.
Microb Cell Fact. 2016 Jan 14;15:11. doi: 10.1186/s12934-015-0397-z.
Microb Cell Fact. 2016.
PMID: 26767617
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RESULTS: Here we engineered the archaeal methanogen Methanosarcina acetivorans to grow anaerobically on methane as a pure culture and to convert methane into the biofuel precursor acetate. To capture methane, we cloned the enzyme methyl-coenzyme M reductase (Mcr) from an u …
RESULTS: Here we engineered the archaeal methanogen Methanosarcina acetivorans to grow anaerobically on methane as a pure culture and to con …