Corresponding author: Yousef Gaballah ( yooungstar4@gmail.com ) © Yousef Gaballah. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Gaballah Y (2024) Using N2 as a final electron receptor in yeast to produce NH3 in bioreactors. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e124141 |
This research proposal aims to replacement of N2 molecule (instead of O2) as a final electron receptor in micro-organisms so that they can produce NH3, which is important industrially, instead of H2O. This idea is based on the hypothesis that replacement of the central atom in gas-carrying compounds in living organisms such as chlorophyll, heme and hemocyanin would replace the fixed gas. However, NH3 is an expensive product because it is produced using Haber-Bosch reaction technique which requires high temperature and pressure. Therefore, it is predictable here to produce NH3 so simply in bioreactors which is a great economic benefit.