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CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages 142-149Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.10.001
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- Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) REMOTE program [DE-AR0000435]
- National Institutes of Health [GM118035]
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Nature utilizes two groups of enzymes to catalyze methane conversions, methyl-coenzyme M reductases (MCRs) and methane monooxygenases (MMOs). These enzymes have been difficult to incorporate into industrial processes due to their complexity, poor stability, and lack of recombinant tractability. Despite these issues, new ways of preparing and stabilizing these enzymes have recently been discovered, and new mechanistic insight into how MCRs and MMOs break the C-H bond in nature's most inert hydrocarbon have been obtained. This review focuses on recent findings in the methane biocatalysis field, and discusses the impact of these finding on designing MMO and MCR-based biotechnologies.
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