Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen with many desirable industrial biocatalyst
characteristics. In this review, we will discuss work to develop Z. mobilis as a model system …

High oil prices, increasing focus on renewable carbohydrate-based feedstocks for fuels and
chemicals, and the recent publication of its genome sequence, have provided continuing …

Biosynthesis of liquid fuels and biomass-based building block chemicals from
microorganisms have been regarded as a competitive alternative route to traditional …

Biorefinery of biomass-based biofuels and biochemicals by microorganisms is a competitive
alternative of traditional petroleum refineries. Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen …

Bioethanol has been considered as a potentially renewable energy source, and metabolic
engineering plays an important role in the production of biofuels. As an efficient ethanol …

Zymomonas mobilis is a unique bacterium in the microbial world, and offers a number of
advantages over the existing ethanol‐producing microorganisms. Being a prokaryote, it is …

The lack of industrially suitable microorganisms for converting biomass into fuel ethanol has
traditionally been cited as a major technical roadblock to developing a bioethanol industry …

Background Biofuels and value-added biochemicals derived from renewable biomass via
biochemical conversion have attracted considerable attention to meet global sustainable …

Background Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen being developed and deployed
as an industrial biofuel producer. To date, eight Z. mobilis strains have been completely …

Great effort has been devoted to engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae with pentose
metabolism through the oxido-reductase pathway for cellulosic ethanol production, but …