Copper active sites in biology

EI Solomon, DE Heppner, EM Johnston… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
On the basis of its generally accessible I/II redox couple and bioavailability, copper plays a
wide variety of roles in nature that mostly involve electron transfer (ET), O 2 binding …

Metabolic engineering in methanotrophic bacteria

MG Kalyuzhnaya, AW Puri, ME Lidstrom - Metabolic engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Methane, as natural gas or biogas, is the least expensive source of carbon for (bio) chemical
synthesis. Scalable biological upgrading of this simple alkane to chemicals and fuels can …

Methanotrophs and copper

JD Semrau, AA DiSpirito, S Yoon - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Methanotrophs, cells that consume methane (CH4) as their sole source of carbon and
energy, play key roles in the global carbon cycle, including controlling anthropogenic and …

Metabolic aspects of aerobic obligate methanotrophy⋆

YA Trotsenko, JC Murrell - Advances in applied microbiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the metabolic aspects of aerobic obligate
methanotrophy. Aerobic methanotrophs are a unique group of gram-negative bacteria that …

Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) and OLED-based chemical and biological sensors: an overview

J Shinar, R Shinar - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
The basic photophysics, transport properties, state of the art, and challenges in OLED
science and technology, and the major developments in structurally integrated OLED-based …

Methanobactin and the link between copper and bacterial methane oxidation

AA DiSpirito, JD Semrau, JC Murrell… - Microbiology and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Methanobactins (mbs) are low-molecular-mass (< 1,200 Da) copper-binding peptides, or
chalkophores, produced by many methane-oxidizing bacteria (methanotrophs). These …

Metal binding ability of microbial natural metal chelators and potential applications

M Hofmann, G Retamal-Morales, D Tischler - Natural Product Reports, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2019 Siderophores are natural products which have attracted interest due to
their ability to bind metal ions with high affinities. This review considers the complex …

Remediation of chromium (VI) by a methane-oxidizing bacterium

A Al Hasin, SJ Gurman, LM Murphy… - … science & technology, 2010 - ACS Publications
Methane-oxidizing bacteria are ubiquitous in the environment and are globally important in
oxidizing the potent greenhouse gas methane. It is also well recognized that they have wide …

Methanobactin and MmoD work in concert to act as the 'copper‐switch'in methanotrophs

JD Semrau, S Jagadevan, AA DiSpirito… - Environmental …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Biological oxidation of methane to methanol by aerobic bacteria is catalysed by two different
enzymes, the cytoplasmic or soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO) and the membrane …

Chelation therapy in Wilson's disease: from D-penicillamine to the design of selective bioinspired intracellular Cu (I) chelators

P Delangle, E Mintz - Dalton transactions, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Wilson's disease is an orphan disease due to copper homeostasis dysfunction. Mutations of
the ATP7B gene induces an impaired functioning of a Cu-ATPase, impaired Cu …