Dec., 2013. Paper in Nature Communications highlights advances in understanding the ribulose monophosphate cycle in methanotrophs, including the demonstration that under low O2 conditions, methanotrophs can ferment formaldehyde to excreted products dominated by formate, acetate, and H2.
Kalyuzhnaya et al., Nat. Commun. 4:2785 (2013). [Pubmed].
Nov., 2013. Cycling Single-Carbon Compounds: from Omics to Novel Concepts published in Microbe Magazine.
Oct., 2013. Methanotroph Commons website goes live. The Lidstrom Lab is part of the Methanotroph Consortium, a group of methanotroph researchers who have contributed to a new website with information about methanotrophs as well as a forum for posting information, comments, and ideas.
Sept., 2013. New project to study synthetic communities of methanotrophs and cooperating partners funded by the Department of Energy. Abstract