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SUBMITTER: Gao Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7089970 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gao Yu Y Zhang Hongmei H Fan Minrui M Jia Chenjun C Shi Lifang L Pan Xiaowei X Cao Peng P Zhao Xuelin X Chang Wenrui W Li Mei M
Nature communications 20200323 1
Long-chain alk(a/e)nes represent the major constituents of conventional transportation fuels. Biosynthesis of alkanes is ubiquitous in many kinds of organisms. Cyanobacteria possess two enzymes, acyl-acyl carrier protein (acyl-ACP) reductase (AAR) and aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO), which function in a two-step alkane biosynthesis pathway. These two enzymes act in series and possibly form a complex that efficiently converts long chain fatty acyl-ACP/fatty acyl-CoA into hydrocarbon. While ...[more]