Pathway dissection, regulation, engineering and application: lessons learned from biobutanol production by solventogenic clostridia

S Li, L Huang, C Ke, Z Pang, L Liu - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2020 - Springer
The global energy crisis and limited supply of petroleum fuels have rekindled the interest in
utilizing a sustainable biomass to produce biofuel. Butanol, an advanced biofuel, is a …

Biomass, strain engineering, and fermentation processes for butanol production by solventogenic clostridia

SH Lee, EJ Yun, J Kim, SJ Lee, Y Um… - Applied microbiology and …, 2016 - Springer
Butanol is considered an attractive biofuel and a commercially important bulk chemical.
However, economical production of butanol by solventogenic clostridia, eg, via fermentative …

Enhanced butanol production obtained by reinforcing the direct butanol-forming route in Clostridium acetobutylicum

YS Jang, JY Lee, J Lee, JH Park, JA Im, MH Eom, J Lee… - MBio, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Butanol is an important industrial solvent and advanced biofuel that can be produced by
biphasic fermentation by Clostridium acetobutylicum. It has been known that acetate and …

Butanol production from renewable biomass: rediscovery of metabolic pathways and metabolic engineering

YS Jang, J Lee, A Malaviya, DY Seung… - Biotechnology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Biofuel from renewable biomass is one of the answers to help solve the problems
associated with limited fossil resources and climate change. Butanol has superior liquid‐fuel …

One hundred years of clostridial butanol fermentation

HG Moon, YS Jang, C Cho, J Lee… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Butanol has been widely used as an important industrial solvent and feedstock for chemical
production. Also, its superior fuel properties compared with ethanol make butanol a good …

Consolidated bioprocessing for butanol production of cellulolytic Clostridia: development and optimization

Z Wen, Q Li, J Liu, M Jin, S Yang - Microbial biotechnology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Butanol is an important bulk chemical, as well as a promising renewable gasoline substitute,
that is commonly produced by solventogenic Clostridia. The main cost of cellulosic butanol …

Biobutanol: the outlook of an academic and industrialist

SB Bankar, SA Survase, H Ojamo, T Granström - Rsc Advances, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The gradual shift of transportation fuels from oil based fuels to alternative fuel resources and
worldwide demand for energy has been the impetus for research to produce alcohol biofuels …

Prospective and development of butanol as an advanced biofuel

C Xue, XQ Zhao, CG Liu, LJ Chen, FW Bai - Biotechnology advances, 2013 - Elsevier
Butanol has been acknowledged as an advanced biofuel, but its production through acetone–
butanol–ethanol (ABE) fermentation by clostridia is still not economically competitive, due to …

Towards continuous industrial bioprocessing with solventogenic and acetogenic clostridia: challenges, progress and perspectives

CA Vees, CS Neuendorf, S Pflügl - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The sustainable production of solvents from above ground carbon is highly desired. Several
clostridia naturally produce solvents and use a variety of renewable and waste-derived …

Metabolic pathways of clostridia for producing butanol

R Gheshlaghi, JM Scharer, M Moo-Young… - Biotechnology …, 2009 - Elsevier
Worldwide demand for energy has been the impetus for research to produce alcohol
biofuels from renewable resources. This review focuses on the biosynthesis of butanol …