Deep-sea secrets of butane metabolism

Stephen W. Ragsdale ()
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Stephen W. Ragsdale: University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.

Nature, 2016, vol. 539, issue 7629, 367-368

Abstract: Anaerobic microbes have been found to break down the hydrocarbon butane by a pathway with some similarities to anaerobic methane breakdown. Harnessing the butane pathway might enable biofuel generation. See Article p.396

Date: 2016
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