The biochemistry of methane oxidation

AS Hakemian, AC Rosenzweig - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Methanotrophic bacteria oxidize methane to methanol in the first step of their metabolic
pathway. Two forms of methane monooxygenase (MMO) enzymes catalyze this reaction …

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 …

Molecular biology and regulation of methane monooxygenase

JC Murrell, B Gilbert, IR McDonald - Archives of microbiology, 2000 - Springer
Methanotrophs are ubiquitous in the environment and play an important role in mitigating
global warming due to methane. They are also potentially interesting for industrial …

Genes involved in the copper-dependent regulation of soluble methane monooxygenase of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath): cloning, sequencing and mutational …

R Csaki, L Bodrossy, J Klem, JC Murrell… - …, 2003 - microbiologyresearch.org
The key enzyme in methane metabolism is methane monooxygenase (MMO), which
catalyses the oxidation of methane to methanol. Some methanotrophs, including …

Enzymatic oxidation of methane

S Sirajuddin, AC Rosenzweig - Biochemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Methane monooxygenases (MMOs) are enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of methane to
methanol in methanotrophic bacteria. As potential targets for new gas-to-liquid methane …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of zinc on particulate methane monooxygenase activity and structure

S Sirajuddin, D Barupala, S Helling, K Marcus… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is a membrane-bound metalloenzyme that
oxidizes methane to methanol in methanotrophic bacteria. Zinc is a known inhibitor of …

Biological methane oxidation: regulation, biochemistry, and active site structure of particulate methane monooxygenase

RL Lieberman, AC Rosenzweig - Critical reviews in biochemistry …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is a threesubunit integral membrane enzyme
that catalyzes the oxidation of methane to methanol. Although pMMO is the predominant …

Regulation of bacterial methane oxidation: transcription of the soluble methane mono-oxygenase operon of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is repressed by copper …

AK Nielsen, K Gerdes, H Degn, MJ Colin - Microbiology, 1996 - microbiologyresearch.org
Methane is oxidized to methanol by the enzyme methane mono-oxygenase (MMO) in
methanotrophic bacteria. In previous work, this multicomponent enzyme system has been …

Copper‐dependent reciprocal transcriptional regulation of methane monooxygenase genes in Methylococcus capsulatus and Methylosinus trichosporium

AK Nielsen, K Gerdes, JC Murrell - Molecular microbiology, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The methanotrophic bacteria Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) and Methylosinus
trichosporium OB3b convert methane to methanol using the enzyme, methane …

Purified particulate methane monooxygenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is a dimer with both mononuclear copper and a copper-containing cluster

RL Lieberman, DB Shrestha, PE Doan… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is a membrane-bound enzyme that catalyzes
the oxidation of methane to methanol in methanotropic bacteria. Understanding how this …