Bioconversion of methane to lactate by an obligate methanotrophic bacterium

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Henard, Calvin A ^a   Smith, Holly ^a   Dowe, Nancy ^a   Kalyuzhnaya, Marina G ^b   Pienkos, Philip T ^a   Guarnieri, Michael T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; METHANE;

BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOREACTOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; KINETICS; LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; PLASMID; TRANSGENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOCATALYSIS; BIOREACTORS; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LACTIC ACID; LACTOBACILLUS HELVETICUS; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METHANE; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; PLASMIDS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84959440704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21585     Document Type: Article

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