Recombinant expression and subcellular targeting of the particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) protein components in plants.

ABSTRACT: Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, which has contributed to approximately a fifth of global warming since pre-industrial times. The agricultural sector produces significant methane emissions, especially from livestock, waste management and rice cultivation. Rice fields alone generate around 9% of total anthropogenic emissions. Methane is produced in waterlogged paddy fields by methanogenic archaea, and transported to the atmosphere through the aerenchyma tissue of rice plants. Thus, bioengineering rice with catalysts to detoxify methane en route could contribute to an efficient emission mitigation strategy. Particulate methane monooxygenase (pMMO) is the predominant methane catalyst found in nature, and is an enzyme complex expressed by methanotrophic bacteria. Recombinant expression of p

SUBMITTER: Spatola Rossi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504283 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature