Toward the Use of Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase for Methane Bioconversion Applications.

ABSTRACT: As the main component of natural gas and renewable biogas, methane is an abundant, affordable fuel. Thus, there is interest in converting these methane reserves into liquid fuels and commodity chemicals, which would contribute toward mitigating climate change, as well as provide potentially sustainable routes to chemical production. Unfortunately, specific activation of methane for conversion into other molecules is a difficult process due to the unreactive nature of methane C-H bonds. The use of methane activating enzymes, such as methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR), may offer a solution. MCR catalyzes the methane-forming step of methanogenesis in methanogenic archaea (methanogens), as well as the initial methane oxidation step during the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in anaerobic me

SUBMITTER: Dinh TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11411713 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature