Metabolism of ethylene and epoxyethane by the methanotrophic bacterium Methylohalobius crimeensis

M. crimeensis contains an operon with a putative pathway for catabolic oxidation of epoxyethane to acetyl CoA. Proteomics was used to meausure the expression of the proteins encoded by this operon before and after ethylene exposure.

M. crimeensis 携带有一段操纵子（operon），该操纵子包含一条将环氧乙烷（epoxyethane）催化氧化为乙酰辅酶A（acetyl CoA）的推定分解代谢途径。本研究采用蛋白质组学（proteomics）技术，测定了该操纵子编码的蛋白质在乙烯（ethylene）暴露前后的表达水平。