A bacterial enzyme converts greenhouse gas to liquid biofuel
November 9, 2023
A collaborative research team from the labs of Brian Hoffman and Amy Rosenzweig used a multidisciplinary approach to overcome challenges intrinsic to studying pMMO. By combining advanced spectroscopy and cryoelectron microscopy, they pinpointed pMMO’s active site where methane gets converted to methanol, a major stride in understanding methanotrophs’ remarkable chemistry.