Eric S. Boyd

TL;DR: There is currently substantial interest in utilizing eukaryotic algae for the renewable production of several bioenergy carriers, including starches for alcohols, lipids for diesel fuel surrogates, and H2 for fuel cells.

TL;DR: These mechanisms represent two independent solutions to the formation of complex bioinorganic active sites for catalyzing the simplest of chemical reactions, reversible hydrogen oxidation, and are arguably the most profound case of convergent evolution.

TL;DR: In this article, the X-ray crystal structure of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii HydA was solved, revealing the stepwise manner by which the H-cluster is synthesized, and offering insight into how HydA might have evolved.

TL;DR: The data suggest that (i) mer has evolved from a simple system in geothermal environments to a widely distributed and more complex and efficient detoxification system, and (ii) merA is a suitable biomarker for examining the functional diversity of Hg detoxification and for predicting the composition of mer operons in natural environments.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that copper not only regulates the metabolic switch between the two methane monooxygenases but also regulates the level of expression of the pMMO and the development of internal membranes.