Biological conversion of methane to chemicals and fuels: technical challenges and issues

Expression of heterologous non-oxidative pentose phosphate pathway from Bacillus methanolicus and phosphoglucose isomerase deletion improves methanol assimilation and metabolite production by a synthetic Escherichia coli methylotroph

(2018) R. Kyle Bennett et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

A novel integrated biorefinery process for diesel fuel blendstock production using lipids from the methanotroph, Methylomicrobium buryatense

(2017) Tao Dong et al.   ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT

Selective bio-oxidation of propane to acetone using methane-oxidizing Methylomonas sp. DH-1

(2017) Dong Hoon Hur et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Engineering the biological conversion of methanol to specialty chemicals in Escherichia coli

(2017) W. Brian Whitaker et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Pathways in Methylomicrobium buryatense 5G(B1)

(2017) Aleksandr Demidenko et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Electroporation-Based Genetic Manipulation in Type I Methanotrophs

(2016) Xin Yan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Homo- and heterologous reporter proteins for evaluation of promoter activity in Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z

(2016) I. I. Mustakhimov et al.   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic engineering of methanotrophs and its application to production of chemicals and biofuels from methane

(2016) Ok Kyung Lee et al.   Biofuels Bioproducts & Biorefining-Biofpr

Mixing and mass transfer in a pilot scale U-loop bioreactor

(2016) Leander A.H. Petersen et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Reconstruction of methanol and formate metabolic pathway in non-native host for biosynthesis of chemicals and biofuels

(2016) Anh Duc Nguyen et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING

Highly efficient bioconversion of methane to methanol using a novel type IMethylomonassp. DH-1 newly isolated from brewery waste sludge

(2016) Dong Hoon Hur et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Metabolic versatility of microbial methane oxidation for biocatalytic methane conversion

(2016) Taek Jin Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY

Reversing methanogenesis to capture methane for liquid biofuel precursors

(2016) Valerie W. C. Soo et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Bioconversion of methane to lactate by an obligate methanotrophic bacterium

(2016) Calvin A. Henard et al.   Scientific Reports

Metabolic Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for Methanol Metabolism

(2015) Sabrina Witthoff et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Production of carbon-13-labeled cadaverine by engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum using carbon-13-labeled methanol as co-substrate

(2015) Lennart Leßmeier et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Synthetic methylotrophy: engineering the production of biofuels and chemicals based on the biology of aerobic methanol utilization

(2015) William B Whitaker et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Methane as a Resource: Can the Methanotrophs Add Value?

(2015) P. J. Strong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Batch Conversion of Methane to Methanol Using Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b as Biocatalyst

(2015) In Yeub Hwang et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient of methane in bubble column reactor

(2015) Jaewon Lee et al.   KOREAN JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Engineering Escherichia coli for methanol conversion

(2015) Jonas E.N. Müller et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Metabolic engineering in methanotrophic bacteria

(2015) Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Biocatalytic Conversion of Methane to Methanol as a Key Step for Development of Methane-Based Biorefineries

(2015) In Yeub Hwang et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genetic Tools for the Industrially Promising Methanotroph Methylomicrobium buryatense

(2014) Aaron W. Puri et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Structure and Protein–Protein Interactions of Methanol Dehydrogenase from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

(2014) Megen A. Culpepper et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Bioconversion of natural gas to liquid fuel: Opportunities and challenges

(2014) Qiang Fei et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Systematic metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for high-yield production of fuel bio-chemical 2,3-butanediol

(2014) Youqiang Xu et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Trace-gas metabolic versatility of the facultative methanotroph Methylocella silvestris

(2014) Andrew T. Crombie et al.   NATURE

Rethinking biological activation of methane and conversion to liquid fuels

(2014) Chad A Haynes et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Envisioning the Bioconversion of Methane to Liquid Fuels

(2014) R. J. Conrado et al.   SCIENCE

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli using synthetic small regulatory RNAs

(2013) Dokyun Na et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Production of 2,3-butanediol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by in silico aided metabolic engineering

(2012) Chiam Yu Ng et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Discovery, taxonomic distribution, and phenotypic characterization of a gene required for 3-methylhopanoid production

(2012) P. V. Welander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulfate: on the reversibility of the reactions that are catalyzed by enzymes also involved in methanogenesis from CO2

(2011) Rudolf K Thauer   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for direct production of 1,4-butanediol

(2011) Harry Yim et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Pyrroloquinoline quinone biosynthesis in Escherichia coli through expression of the Gluconobacter oxydans pqqABCDE gene cluster

(2010) Xue-Peng Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Oxidation of methane by a biological dicopper centre

(2010) Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian et al.   NATURE

The key nickel enzyme of methanogenesis catalyses the anaerobic oxidation of methane

(2010) Silvan Scheller et al.   NATURE

The pyrroloquinoline quinone biosynthesis pathway revisited: A structural approach

(2008) Sandra Puehringer et al.   BMC BIOCHEMISTRY

Two isozymes of particulate methane monooxygenase with different methane oxidation kinetics are found in Methylocystis sp. strain SC2

(2008) M. Baani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA