A tale of two methane monooxygenases

On the catalytic mechanisms of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

(2016) Paul H Walton et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Heterogeneous formulation of the tricopper complex for efficient catalytic conversion of methane into methanol at ambient temperature and pressure

(2016) Chih-Cheng Liu et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Possible Peroxo State of the Dicopper Site of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase from Combined Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Mechanics Calculations

(2016) Shuhei Itoyama et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Methane-Oxidizing Enzymes: An Upstream Problem in Biological Gas-to-Liquids Conversion

(2016) Thomas J. Lawton et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Copper-responsive gene expression in the methanotroph Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b

(2016) Grace E. Kenney et al.   Metallomics

The molecular basis of polysaccharide cleavage by lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

(2016) Kristian E H Frandsen et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Coupling Oxygen Consumption with Hydrocarbon Oxidation in Bacterial Multicomponent Monooxygenases

(2015) Weixue Wang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Enzymatic Oxidation of Methane

(2015) Sarah Sirajuddin et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Inactivation of the particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) in Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) by acetylene

(2015) Minh D. Pham et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS

Chemical Plausibility of Cu(III) with Biological Ligation in pMMO

(2015) Cooper Citek et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structure of the key species in the enzymatic oxidation of methane to methanol

(2015) Rahul Banerjee et al.   NATURE

Single-site trinuclear copper oxygen clusters in mordenite for selective conversion of methane to methanol

(2015) Sebastian Grundner et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2014) Megen A. Culpepper et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Copper Active Sites in Biology

(2014) Edward I. Solomon et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Climate policy through changing consumption choices: Options and obstacles for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

(2014) Bastien Girod et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Effects of Zinc on Particulate Methane Monooxygenase Activity and Structure

(2014) Sarah Sirajuddin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Electron Transfer Control in Soluble Methane Monooxygenase

(2014) Weixue Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Diiron Oxidation State Control of Substrate Access to the Active Site of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Mediated by the Regulatory Component

(2014) Weixue Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Primary Amine Stabilization of a Dicopper(III) Bis(μ-oxo) Species: Modeling the Ligation in pMMO

(2014) Cooper Citek et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Identification of the Valence and Coordination Environment of the Particulate Methane Monooxygenase Copper Centers by Advanced EPR Characterization

(2014) Megen A. Culpepper et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mutagenesis of the hydrocarbon monooxygenase indicates a metal centre in subunit-C, and not subunit-B, is essential for copper-containing membrane monooxygenase activity

(2014) E. F. Liew et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Structural conservation of the B subunit in the ammonia monooxygenase/particulate methane monooxygenase superfamily

(2014) Thomas J. Lawton et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Structural basis for biomolecular recognition in overlapping binding sites in a diiron enzyme system

(2014) Justin F. Acheson et al.   Nature Communications

Efficient Oxidation of Methane to Methanol by Dioxygen Mediated by Tricopper Clusters

(2013) Sunney I. Chan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Intermediate P* from Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Contains a Diferrous Cluster

(2013) Rahul Banerjee et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Role of Tyrosine Residue in Methane Activation at the Dicopper Site of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase: A Density Functional Theory Study

(2013) Yoshihito Shiota et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Control of substrate access to the active site in methane monooxygenase

(2013) Seung Jae Lee et al.   NATURE

Efficient Room-Temperature Oxidation of Hydrocarbons Mediated by Tricopper Cluster Complexes with Different Ligands

(2012) Penumaka Nagababu et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Architecture and active site of particulate methane monooxygenase

(2012) Megen A. Culpepper et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

DFT study of the mechanism for methane hydroxylation by soluble methane monooxygenase (sMMO): effects of oxidation state, spin state, and coordination number

(2012) Shu-Ping Huang et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Efficient catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons mediated by tricopper clusters under mild conditions

(2012) Sunney I. Chan et al.   JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS

Bacteriohemerythrin bolsters the activity of the particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) in Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath)

(2012) Kelvin H.-C. Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY

Evidence for Oxygen Binding at the Active Site of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase

(2012) Megen A. Culpepper et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dioxygen Activation in Soluble Methane Monooxygenase

(2011) Christine E. Tinberg et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Crystal Structure and Characterization of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase fromMethylocystisspecies Strain M

(2011) Stephen M. Smith et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

A Copper–Methionine Interaction Controls the pH-Dependent Activation of Peptidylglycine Monooxygenase

(2011) Andrew T. Bauman et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

The substrate binding cavity of particulate methane monooxygenase from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b expresses high enantioselectivity for n-butane and n-pentane oxidation to 2-alcohol

(2011) Akimitsu Miyaji et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

Insights into the oxidative degradation of cellulose by a copper metalloenzyme that exploits biomass components

(2011) R. J. Quinlan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Methanotrophs: Multifunctional bacteria with promising applications in environmental bioengineering

(2010) Hao Jiang et al.   BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL

Oxidation Reactions Performed by Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Hydroxylase Intermediates Hperoxoand Q Proceed by Distinct Mechanisms

(2010) Christine E. Tinberg et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Oxygen Precursor to the Reactive Intermediate in Methanol Synthesis by Cu-ZSM-5

(2010) Pieter J. Smeets et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Oxidation of methane by a biological dicopper centre

(2010) Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian et al.   NATURE

Revisiting the Mechanism of Dioxygen Activation in Soluble Methane Monooxygenase fromM. capsulatus(Bath): Evidence for a Multi-Step, Proton-Dependent Reaction Pathway

(2009) Christine E. Tinberg et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Interaction of the mechanism-based inactivator acetylene with ammonia monooxygenase of Nitrosomonas europaea

(2009) S. Gilch et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

A [Cu2O]2+core in Cu-ZSM-5, the active site in the oxidation of methane to methanol

(2009) Julia S. Woertink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophicVerrucomicrobia

(2009) Huub J. M. Op den Camp et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The Metal Centers of Particulate Methane Monooxygenase fromMethylosinus trichosporiumOB3b†‡

(2008) Amanda S. Hakemian et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Probing the Hydrophobic Pocket of the Active Site in the Particulate Methane Monooxygenase (pMMO) fromMethylococcus capsulatus (Bath) by Variable Stereoselective Alkane Hydroxylation and Olefin Epoxidation

(2008) Kok-Yaoh Ng et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Structural Model Studies for the Peroxo Intermediate P and the Reaction Pathway from P → Q of Methane Monooxygenase Using Broken-Symmetry Density Functional Calculations

(2008) Wen-Ge Han et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Comparison of the Reactivity of Bis(μ-oxo)CuIICuIIIand CuIIICuIIISpecies to Methane

(2008) Yoshihito Shiota et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Perturbations to the Geometric and Electronic Structure of the CuASite: Factors that Influence Delocalization and Their Contributions to Electron Transfer

(2008) Xiangjin Xie et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Methane oxidation at 55 C and pH 2 by a thermoacidophilic bacterium belonging to the Verrucomicrobia phylum

(2008) T. Islam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA