Recent developments in pretreatment technologies on lignocellulosic biomass: effect of key parameters, technological improvements, and challenges

SK Bhatia, SS Jagtap, AA Bedekar, RK Bhatia… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biomass is an inexpensive renewable source that can be used to produce
biofuels and bioproducts. The recalcitrance nature of biomass hampers polysaccharide …

A comprehensive review of spermidine: Safety, health effects, absorption and metabolism, food materials evaluation, physical and chemical processing, and …

D Zou, Z Zhao, L Li, Y Min, D Zhang, A Ji… - … Reviews in Food …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Spermidine, a natural autophagy inducer, has a variety of health effects, such as antitumor,
antiaging, anti‐inflammation, cardiovascular protection, and neuromodulation. It has been a …

Xylose fermentation efficiency of industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast with separate or combined xylose reductase/xylitol dehydrogenase and xylose isomerase …

JT Cunha, PO Soares, A Romaní, JM Thevelein… - Biotechnology for …, 2019 - Springer
Background Xylose isomerase (XI) and xylose reductase/xylitol dehydrogenase (XR/XDH)
pathways have been extensively used to confer xylose assimilation capacity to …

Biobased organic acids production by metabolically engineered microorganisms

Y Chen, J Nielsen - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•The use of inexpensive carbon sources is urgently needed for citric acid
production.•Low-pH process benefits lactic acid production.•Different strains and processes …

Engineering a microbial biosynthesis platform for de novo production of tropane alkaloids

P Srinivasan, CD Smolke - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Tropane alkaloids (TAs) are a class of phytochemicals produced by plants of the nightshade
family used for treating diverse neurological disorders. Here, we demonstrate de novo …

Construction of advanced producers of first-and second-generation ethanol in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and selected species of non-conventional yeasts …

J Ruchala, OO Kurylenko, KV Dmytruk… - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This review summarizes progress in the construction of efficient yeast ethanol producers
from glucose/sucrose and lignocellulose. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the major industrial …

Modifying yeast tolerance to inhibitory conditions of ethanol production processes

L Caspeta, T Castillo, J Nielsen - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains having a broad range of substrate utilization, rapid
substrate consumption, and conversion to ethanol, as well as good tolerance to inhibitory …

Enhanced acetic acid stress tolerance and ethanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by modulating expression of the de novo purine biosynthesis genes

MM Zhang, L Xiong, YJ Tang, MA Mehmood… - Biotechnology for …, 2019 - Springer
Background Yeast strains that are tolerant to multiple environmental stresses are highly
desired for various industrial applications. Despite great efforts in identifying key genes …

The roles of polyamines in microorganisms

AÖ Gevrekci - World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2017 - Springer
Polyamines are small polycations that are well conserved in all the living organisms except
Archae, Methanobacteriales and Halobacteriales. The most common polyamines are …

In-depth understanding of molecular mechanisms of aldehyde toxicity to engineer robust Saccharomyces cerevisiae

LN Jayakody, YS Jin - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2021 - Springer
Aldehydes are ubiquitous electrophilic compounds that ferment microorganisms including
Saccharomyces cerevisiae encounter during the fermentation processes to produce food …