A novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes
Abstract Biosynthesis of hydrocarbons is a promising approach for the production of alternative sources of energy because of the emerging need to reduce global consumption of fossil fuels. However, the suitability of biogenic hydrocarbons as fuels is limited because their range of the number of carb...
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crspringernat:10.1038/s41598-021-93204-w 2023-05-15T14:57:22+02:00 A novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes Harada, Naomi Hirose, Yuu Chihong, Song Kurita, Hirofumi Sato, Miyako Onodera, Jonaotaro Murata, Kazuyoshi Itoh, Fumihiro Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Arctic Challange for Sustainability Project, Japan Arctic Challange for Sustainability Project II, Japan Cooperative Study Program of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93204-w http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93204-w.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93204-w en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Scientific Reports volume 11, issue 1 ISSN 2045-2322 Multidisciplinary journal-article 2021 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93204-w 2022-01-04T11:44:39Z Abstract Biosynthesis of hydrocarbons is a promising approach for the production of alternative sources of energy because of the emerging need to reduce global consumption of fossil fuels. However, the suitability of biogenic hydrocarbons as fuels is limited because their range of the number of carbon atoms is small, and/or they contain unsaturated carbon bonds. Here, we report that a marine phytoplankton, Dicrateria rotunda, collected from the western Arctic Ocean, can synthesize a series of saturated hydrocarbons ( n -alkanes) from C 10 H 22 to C 38 H 78 , which are categorized as petrol (C 10 –C 15 ), diesel oils (C 16 –C 20 ), and fuel oils (C 21 –C 38 ). The observation that these n -alkanes were also produced by ten other cultivated strains of Dicrateria collected from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans suggests that this capability is a common characteristic of Dicrateria . We also identified that the total contents of the n -alkanes in the Arctic D. rotunda strain increased under dark and nitrogen-deficient conditions. The unique characteristic of D. rotunda could contribute to the development of a new approach for the biosynthesis of n -alkanes. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Phytoplankton Springer Nature (via Crossref) Arctic Arctic Ocean Pacific Rotunda ENVELOPE(161.567,161.567,-78.017,-78.017) Scientific Reports 11 1 |
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Abstract Biosynthesis of hydrocarbons is a promising approach for the production of alternative sources of energy because of the emerging need to reduce global consumption of fossil fuels. However, the suitability of biogenic hydrocarbons as fuels is limited because their range of the number of carbon atoms is small, and/or they contain unsaturated carbon bonds. Here, we report that a marine phytoplankton, Dicrateria rotunda, collected from the western Arctic Ocean, can synthesize a series of saturated hydrocarbons ( n -alkanes) from C 10 H 22 to C 38 H 78 , which are categorized as petrol (C 10 –C 15 ), diesel oils (C 16 –C 20 ), and fuel oils (C 21 –C 38 ). The observation that these n -alkanes were also produced by ten other cultivated strains of Dicrateria collected from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans suggests that this capability is a common characteristic of Dicrateria . We also identified that the total contents of the n -alkanes in the Arctic D. rotunda strain increased under dark and nitrogen-deficient conditions. The unique characteristic of D. rotunda could contribute to the development of a new approach for the biosynthesis of n -alkanes. |
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A novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes |
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A novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes |
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A novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes |
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A novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes |
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A novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes |
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novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes |
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