A novel characteristic of a phytoplankton as a potential source of straight-chain alkanes
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...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8286971 2023-05-15T14:57:07+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 2021-07-19 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286971/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34276049 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93204-w en eng Nature Publishing Group UK http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286971/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34276049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93204-w © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . CC-BY Sci Rep Article Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93204-w 2021-07-25T00:39:25Z 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. Text Arctic Arctic Ocean Phytoplankton PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Arctic Ocean Pacific Rotunda ENVELOPE(161.567,161.567,-78.017,-78.017) Scientific Reports 11 1 |
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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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