Methane monooxygenase (MMO) is an enzyme capable of oxidizing the C-H bond in methane as well as other alkanes. Methane monooxygenase belongs to the class...
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Methane monooxygenase (particulate) (EC 1.14.18.3) is an enzyme with systematic name methane,quinol:oxygen oxidoreductase. This enzyme catalyses the following...
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Methanotroph (section Methane oxidation)
been isolated from methanotrophs: soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) and particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO). Cells containing pMMO have demonstrated...
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Atmospheric methane removal is a category of potential approaches being researched to accelerate the breakdown of methane that is in the atmosphere, for...
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Cytochrome P450 (redirect from Cytochrome P450 monooxygenase system)
hydroxylases also rely on an Fe=O intermediate but lack hemes. Methane monooxygenase, which converts methane to methanol, are non-heme iron-and iron-copper-based...
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Stephen J. Lippard (section Methane monooxygenases)
understanding protein structure and synthesis, the enzymatic functions of methane monooxygenase (MMO), and the mechanisms of cisplatin anticancer drugs. His work...
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with an insufficient supply of oxygen. The enzyme methane monooxygenase produces methanol from methane, but cannot be used for industrial-scale reactions...
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Serena DeBeer (section Methane monooxygenase)
group is the catalytic oxidation of methane to methanol. Nature utilizes a group of enzymes called methane monooxygenase (MMOs). The active site of this enzyme...
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Methylotroph (category Methane)
formaldehyde through oxidation of methanol and/or methane. Methane oxidation requires the enzyme methane monooxygenase (MMO). Methylotrophs with this enzyme are...
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methanica. These bacteria degrade their growth-substrate methane with the enzyme methane monooxygenase (MMO). MMO was discovered to be capable of degrading...
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bonds, epoxidize olefins, and oxidize aromatic groups. Methane monooxygenase (MMO) oxidizes methane to methanol via oxygen atom transfer from an iron-oxo...
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Lippard (2003). "Mechanistic Studies on the Hydroxylation of Methane by Methane Monooxygenase". Chem. Rev. 103 (6): 2385–2420. doi:10.1021/cr950244f. PMID 12797835...
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Nitrification (section Methane oxidation inhibition)
inhibit the oxidation of methane in methanotrophic bacteria. AMO shows similar kinetic turnover rates to methane monooxygenase (MMO) found in methanotrophs...
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Alkane (redirect from Methane series)
Some organisms are capable of metalbolizing alkanes. The methane monooxygenases convert methane to methanol. For higher alkanes, cytochrome P450 convert...
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simultaneously Music Minus One, a record company in Westchester, New York Methane monooxygenase, an enzyme Maximum operating Mach number Mercury Magnetospheric...
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Hydroxylation (section Hydroxylation of methane)
the hydroxylation of methane spans both synthetic and biological approaches. Nature has evolved enzymes called methane monooxygenases, which are efficient...
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Amy Rosenzweig (section Biological Methane Oxidation)
component of methane monooxygenase from methyloccous capsulatus. Rosenzweig determined the molecular structures of Nature's main methane oxidation catalysts...
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found to be dominant methanotrophs in water samples and encode key methane monooxygenase genes, pmoA and mmoX. Members of the sulfur-oxidizer genera Thiovulum...
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enzymes include hemerythrin, some ribonucleotide reductases, some methane monooxygenases, purple acid phosphatases, and ferritin. Iron-binding proteins Que...
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Gas to liquids (section Methane to methanol process)
enzymes that oxygenate methane to methanol. The relevant enzymes are methane monooxygenases, which are found both in soluble and particulate (i.e. membrane-bound)...
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reforming methane to syngas then reducing the carbon monoxide to methanol. The transformation can also performed biologically by methane monooxygenase. Overall...
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"Structural conservation of the B subunit in the ammonia monooxygenase/particulate methane monooxygenase superfamily". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics...
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methanotrophs can form particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO), the ability to produce soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) is limited to type II methanotrophs...
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obligately methanotrophic bacterium that possesses only a soluble methane monooxygenase". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology...
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formate (HCOO− ), and carbon dioxide CO2 initially using the enzyme methane monooxygenase. As oxygen is required for this process, all (conventional) methanotrophs...
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Methylococcus capsulatus) which naturally convert methane into methanol by the enzyme, methane monooxygenase. Calysta is producing an alternative yet non-genetically...
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oxidase or small molecule oxidation in cytochrome P450 oxidases or methane monooxygenase. Some metalloproteins are designed to protect a biological system...
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Murrell JC (October 1995). "Evidence that particulate methane monooxygenase and ammonia monooxygenase may be evolutionarily related". FEMS Microbiology Letters...
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During this time, she developed the first synthetically useful methane monooxygenase (MMO) mimic system for catalytic epoxidations with hydrogen peroxide...
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Kay; Yu, Steve S.-F.; Chan, Sunney I. (2017). "Alkane Oxidation: Methane Monooxygenases, Related Enzymes, and Their Biomimetics". Chemical Reviews. 117...
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