Lovastatin in <i>Aspergillus terreus</i>: Fermented Rice Straw Extracts Interferes with Methane Production and Gene Expression in <i>Methanobrevibacter smithii</i>

<table>Biosynthesis pathway of cholesterol production in humans (solid-line markers) and phospholipids production in Archaea (dotted-line markers). HMG-CoA reductase is the common enzyme converting HMG-CoA to mevalonic acid in the two pathways. Lovastatin is an inhibitor of HMG-CoA reductase and thus reduces the production of mevalonic acid in both pathways (modified from <a href="http://ourbiochemistry.blogspot.com/2008/08/29-cholesterol-synthesis.html">http://ourbiochemistry.blogspot.com/2008/08/29-cholesterol-synthesis.html</a>). </table>

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Figure 1: Lovastatin in <i>Aspergillus terreus</i>: Fermented Rice Straw Extracts Interferes with Methane Production and Gene Expression in <i>Methanobrevibacter smithii</i> 

Figure 1 | Lovastatin in Aspergillus terreus: Fermented Rice Straw Extracts Interferes with Methane Production and Gene Expression in Methanobrevibacter smithii 