COSAM News Articles 2016 December Mansoorabadi laboratory publishes article in Science

Mansoorabadi laboratory publishes article in Science

Published: 12/02/2016

The Mansoorabadi laboratory in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Auburn University published a Report in the 21 Oct 2016 issue of Science entitled “The biosynthetic pathway of coenzyme F430 in methanogenic and methanotrophic archaea”.

The new findings of this research have application in natural gas-to-liquid fuel conversion strategies and to help reduce natural greenhouse gas emissions. This study confirms the importance of archaea in global biochemical cycling.

This article was also highlighted in the Nov 2016 issue of Nature Reviews Microbiology.\