{"id":1632,"date":"2017-02-23T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2018-05-10T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T16:54:33","slug":"study-on-methane-biogenesis-published-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/02\/23\/study-on-methane-biogenesis-published-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Study on methane biogenesis published in Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1637\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2017\/02\/9298141237_e06ec4de35_o-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2017\/02\/9298141237_e06ec4de35_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2017\/02\/9298141237_e06ec4de35_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2017\/02\/9298141237_e06ec4de35_o-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2017\/02\/9298141237_e06ec4de35_o-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/files\/2017\/02\/9298141237_e06ec4de35_o.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Research\u00a0led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/profiles\/staff\/warren.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Professor Martin Warren<\/span><\/u><\/a>, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">School of Biosciences<\/span><\/u><\/a>,\u00a0has identified the biosynthetic pathway\u00a0for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cofactor_F430\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">coenzyme F<sub><span style=\"font-size: small\">430<\/span><\/sub><\/span>\u00a0<\/u><\/a> in methylogenic\u00a0bacteria. Coenzyme F<sub><span style=\"font-size: small\">430<\/span><\/sub>\u00a0is\u00a0a cofactor for methyl-coenzyme M reductase, the enzyme involved in both biosynthesis and anaerobic oxidation of methane.\u00a0It\u00a0is a tetrapyrrole &#8211;\u00a0structurally very similar to the red pigment found in red blood cells (haem) and the green pigment found in plants (chlorophyll) &#8211; and allows methanogenic bacteria to use carbon dioxide to produce methane.<\/p>\n<p>This research is a collaboration between laboratories in Kent, Germany, Manchester and Durham. The results are now published in the journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature21427.html\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">Nature <i class=\"fa fa-external-link\"><\/i><\/span><\/u><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/02\/23\/study-on-methane-biogenesis-published-in-nature\/&amp;t=Study on methane biogenesis published in Nature' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Study on methane biogenesis published in Nature%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/02\/23\/study-on-methane-biogenesis-published-in-nature\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/02\/23\/study-on-methane-biogenesis-published-in-nature\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/02\/23\/study-on-methane-biogenesis-published-in-nature\/&amp;title=Study on methane biogenesis published in Nature' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/02\/23\/study-on-methane-biogenesis-published-in-nature\/&amp;title=Study on methane biogenesis published in Nature' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research\u00a0led by Professor Martin Warren, of the School of Biosciences,\u00a0has identified the biosynthetic pathway\u00a0for coenzyme F430\u00a0 in methylogenic\u00a0bacteria. Coenzyme F430\u00a0is\u00a0a cofactor for methyl-coenzyme M reductase, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/02\/23\/study-on-methane-biogenesis-published-in-nature\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24338,80390,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}