Hemicelluloses currently represent the largest polysaccharide fraction wasted in most
cellulosic ethanol pilot and demonstration plants around the world. The reasons are based …

Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) are versatile biocatalysts that catalyze the
regio-and stereospecic oxidation of non-activated hydrocarbons under mild conditions …

During the last decades, biocatalysis became of increasing importance for chemical and
pharmaceutical industries. Regarding regio-and stereospecificity, enzymes have shown to …

Metabolic engineering to design and construct microorganisms suitable for the production of
aromatic amino acids and derivatives thereof requires control of a complicated network of …

Efficient microbial cell factory for the production of homoserine from glucose has been
developed by iterative and rational engineering of Escherichia coli W3110. The whole …

Mannitol, a naturally occurring polyol (sugar alcohol), is widely used in the food,
pharmaceutical, medical, and chemical industries. The production of mannitol by …

The application of metabolic engineering in Escherichia coli has resulted in the generation
of strains with the capacity to produce metabolites of commercial interest. Biotechnological …

Abstract Al. pha. pro. te. o. bac. te′ ri. a. Gr. n. alpha name of first letter of Greek alphabet;
Gr. n. Proteus ocean god able to change shape; Gr. n. bakterion a small rod; ML fem. pl. n …

The substrate fermentation range of the ethanologenic bacterium Zymomonas mobilis was
expanded to include the pentose sugar, L-arabinose, which is commonly found in …

Sucrose, glucose and fructose are degraded in the Gram-negative bacterium Zymomonas
mobilis via an anaerobic version of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway, to an equimolar mixture …