Cyanobacteria possess the unique capacity to naturally produce hydrocarbons from fatty
acids. Hydrocarbon compositions of thirty-two strains of cyanobacteria were characterized to …

Highlights•The lack of predictive modeling limits biosystems design for biofuel production.•
Automation in build and test accelerates strain engineering for biofuel research.•Microplates …

The production of 75% of the current drug molecules and 35% of all chemicals could be
achieved through bioprocessing (Arundel and Sawaya, 2009). To accelerate the transition …

Driven by the desire to mitigate climate change and reduce overdependence on fossil fuels,
biofuels have been actively pursued in recent years because they are believed to be …

Biofuels are the most immediate, practical solution for mitigating dependence on fossil
hydrocarbons, but current biofuels (alcohols and biodiesels) require significant downstream …

Branched five carbon (C 5) alcohols are attractive targets for microbial production due to
their desirable fuel properties and importance as platform chemicals. In this study, we …

Methylotrophy is the ability to use reduced one-carbon compounds, such as methanol, as a
single source of carbon and energy. Methanol is, due to its availability and potential for …

Background Product toxicity is one of the bottlenecks for microbial production of biofuels,
and transporter-mediated biofuel secretion offers a promising strategy to solve this problem …

Plants produce thousands of diterpenoid natural products; some of which are of significant
industrial value as biobased pharmaceuticals (taxol), fragrances (sclareol), food additives …

De novo biosynthesis of fatty acids is an iterative process requiring strict regulation of the
lengths of the produced fatty acids. In this review, we focus on the factors determining chain …