Issue 17, 2014
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Methane hydroxylation using light energy by the combination of thylakoid and methane monooxygenase†

Hidehiro Ito,‡a   Fumiya Mori,‡b   Kenji Tabata,c   Ichiro Okurab  and  Toshiaki Kamachi*b  

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a Education Academy of Computational Life Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midoriku, Yokohama, Japan
E-mail: hito@bio.titech.ac.jp
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b Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midoriku, Yokohama, Japan
E-mail: tkamachi@bio.titech.ac.jp
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Tel: +81 45 924 5752

c Frontier Research Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259, Nagatsuta, Midoriku, Yokohama, Japan
E-mail: ktabata@bio.titech.ac.jp
Tel: +81 45 924 5126

Abstract

A photoinduced methane hydroxylation system was established by the combination of the photosynthetic system of thylakoid and methane monooxygenase (MMO) from Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b. By using the photosynthetic system, the electrons needed for direct oxidation of methane to methanol can be obtained from water under light irradiation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA46870D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Nov 2013
Accepted
17 Jan 2014
First published
20 Jan 2014

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 8645-8648

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Methane hydroxylation using light energy by the combination of thylakoid and methane monooxygenase

H. Ito, F. Mori, K. Tabata, I. Okura and T. Kamachi, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 8645 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA46870D

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