1 Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA 2 Department of Marine Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Cloning reactions were carried out using a ...

Every year, perhaps as much as 800 million tons of hydrocarbons enters the environment; alkanes make up a large percentage of it. Most are transformed by organisms that utilize these molecules as ...

We have converted cytochrome P450 BM-3 from Bacillus megaterium (P450 BM-3), a medium-chain (C12–C18) fatty acid monooxygenase, into a highly efficient catalyst for the conversion of alkanes to ...

Alkanes are saturated apolar hydrocarbons that range from their simplest form, methane, to high-molecular-weight compounds. Although alkanes were once considered biologically recalcitrant under ...

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Petroleum Microbiology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Alkanes have long been known to be biodegradable under aerobic conditions by ...