BioProject

Methylotrophs are of interest to the following DOE-supported Biological and Environmental Research programs: the Climate Change Research Program, as key participants in maintaining the levels of major green-house gases such as methane, CO2 and N2O in the atmosphere; the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research Program, as agents in bioremediation of such hazardous pollutants as MTBE, trichloroethylene and other halogenated methanes, and in nitrogen removal from sewage and fertilized soils; the Environmental Management Science Program, as major players in global cycling of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur, and agents in bioremediation of environmental pollutants such as chlorinated solvents; the Microbial Genome Program as representatives of microbial groups that have evolved to specialize in a specific metabolic mode and, respectively, life style, such as dependence on C1 compounds, dependence on nitrate or nitrite; the Ocean Science Program, as major players in methane and nitrate/ nitrite conversion in oceans; and the Genomics: GTL Program as carriers of specific enzyme and regulatory systems allowing unique biochemical transformation capacities important to DOE missions, such as inexpensive and efficient environmental clean-up, biodegradable plastic production potential etc.