A review on biochar-mediated anaerobic digestion with enhanced methane recovery

L Qiu, YF Deng, F Wang, M Davaritouchaee… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
This work comprehensively reviewed the research progress of biochar application in
enhancing anaerobic digestion (AD) proficiency. The biogas production and methane …

Nickel-dependent metalloenzymes

JL Boer, SB Mulrooney, RP Hausinger - Archives of biochemistry and …, 2014 - Elsevier
This review describes the functions, structures, and mechanisms of nine nickel-containing
enzymes: glyoxalase I, acireductone dioxygenase, urease, superoxide dismutase,[NiFe] …

Complexes of Ni (I): a “rare” oxidation state of growing importance

CY Lin, PP Power - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Nickel plays an important role in areas as diverse as metallurgy, magnetism and biology as
well as in chemical applications such as the catalytic transformation of organic substrates …

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

MJ Russell, AJ Hall, W Martin - Geobiology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
For life to have emerged from CO2, rocks, and water on the early Earth, a sustained source
of chemically transducible energy was essential. The serpentinization process is emerging …

Biosynthesis and chemical applications of thioamides

N Mahanta, DM Szantai-Kis, EJ Petersson… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Thioamidation as a posttranslational modification is exceptionally rare, with only a few
reported natural products and exactly one known protein example (methyl-coenzyme M …

Nickel uptake and utilization by microorganisms

SB Mulrooney, RP Hausinger - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Nickel is an essential nutrient for selected microorganisms where it participates in a variety
of cellular processes. Many microbes are capable of sensing cellular nickel ion …

Conformational control of cofactors in nature–the influence of protein-induced macrocycle distortion on the biological function of tetrapyrroles

MO Senge, SA MacGowan, JM O'Brien - Chemical Communications, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Tetrapyrrole-containing proteins are one of the most fundamental classes of enzymes in
nature and it remains an open question to give a chemical rationale for the multitude of …

Methanogens: pushing the boundaries of biology

NR Buan - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2018 - portlandpress.com
Methanogens are anaerobic archaea that grow by producing methane gas. These microbes
and their exotic metabolism have inspired decades of microbial physiology research that …

Methyl (alkyl)-coenzyme M reductases: nickel F-430-containing enzymes involved in anaerobic methane formation and in anaerobic oxidation of methane or of short …

RK Thauer - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase (MCR) catalyzes the methane-forming step in methanogenic
archaea. The active enzyme harbors the nickel (I) hydrocorphin coenzyme F-430 as a …

Identification of syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacteria in anaerobic digesters by combined protein-based stable isotope probing and metagenomics

F Mosbæk, H Kjeldal, DG Mulat, M Albertsen… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Inhibition of anaerobic digestion through accumulation of volatile fatty acids occasionally
occurs as the result of unbalanced growth between acidogenic bacteria and methanogens …