Expanding on the ability of trivalent actinides to support microbial alcohol metabolism in evolved methylotrophic bacterium.

Joshua J Woods, Nathan M Good, Alexia G Cosby, Kirty Wadhawan, Jennifer N Wacker, Alyssa N Gaiser, N Cecilia Martinez-Gomez, Rebecca J Abergel

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Ligands, orbitals, and applications across the f-block.Communications chemistry · 2026
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Joshua J Woods *Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6213-4093

Nathan M Good *Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Alexia G CosbyChemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Kirty WadhawanDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Jennifer N WackerChemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Alyssa N GaiserChemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

N Cecilia Martinez-GomezDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. cecimartinez@berkeley.edu.

Rebecca J AbergelChemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. abergel@berkeley.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3906-8761

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Abstract

The 4 f elements, known as the lanthanides, have only recently been recognized as biologically essential metals. These elements can be found in the active site of certain alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzymes, which are used by methylotrophic bacteria to metabolize simple alcohols such as methanol and ethanol. The 5 f elements, known as the actinides, often show similar chemical behaviour to the lanthanides and recent reports demonstrated that americium (Am) and curium (Cm) can replace lanthanides in certain ADHs to yield a catalytically competent enzyme and support bacterial life. In this work, we expand on these results to show the trivalent ions actinium (Ac

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DOI10.1038/s42004-025-01749-y

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