Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Sustainable production and degradation of plastics using microbes

SY Choi, Y Lee, HE Yu, IJ Cho, M Kang, SY Lee - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Plastics are indispensable in everyday life and industry, but the environmental impact of
plastic waste on ecosystems and human health is a huge concern. Microbial biotechnology …

Enhanced succinic acid production by Mannheimia employing optimal malate dehydrogenase

JH Ahn, H Seo, W Park, J Seok, JA Lee, WJ Kim… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Succinic acid (SA), a dicarboxylic acid of industrial importance, can be efficiently produced
by metabolically engineered Mannheimia succiniciproducens. Malate dehydrogenase …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in microbial production of medium chain fatty acid from renewable carbon resources: A comprehensive review

JH Ahn, KH Jung, ES Lim, SM Kim, SO Han… - Bioresource technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial production of medium chain length fatty acids (MCFAs) from renewable resources
is becoming increasingly important in establishing a sustainable and clean chemical …

Metabolic engineering for the production of dicarboxylic acids and diamines

TU Chae, JH Ahn, YS Ko, JW Kim, JA Lee, EH Lee… - Metabolic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial production of chemicals and materials from renewable carbon sources is
becoming increasingly important to help establish sustainable chemical industry. In this …

Insights into the structure of Escherichia coli outer membrane as the target for engineering microbial cell factories

J Wang, W Ma, X Wang - Microbial Cell Factories, 2021 - Springer
Escherichia coli is generally used as model bacteria to define microbial cell factories for
many products and to investigate regulation mechanisms. E. coli exhibits phospholipids …

Bio‐based succinic acid: an overview of strain development, substrate utilization, and downstream purification

Z Dai, F Guo, S Zhang, W Zhang… - Biofuels, Bioproducts …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Succinic acid is an industrially important platform chemical that could be used as precursor
for the establishment of a sustainable chemical industry. Due to the depletion of crude oil …

Recent advances in microbial production of diamines, aminocarboxylic acids, and diacids as potential platform chemicals and bio-based polyamides monomers

J Son, YJ Sohn, KA Baritugo, SY Jo, HM Song… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, bio-based manufacturing processes of value-added platform chemicals and
polymers in biorefineries using renewable resources have extensively been developed for …

Recent advances in metabolic engineering of microorganisms for the production of monomeric C3 and C4 chemical compounds

S Zhou, Y Zhang, Z Wei, S Park - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Bio-based C3 and C4 bi-functional chemicals are useful monomers in biopolymer
production. This review describes recent progresses in the biosynthesis of four such …

[HTML][HTML] Role of succinic acid in the regulation of sepsis

H Liu, H Zhang, X Zhang, Q Chen, L Xia - International …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sepsis is a life-threatening disease characterized by a defensive response to damage. The
immune response in patients with sepsis is overenhanced in the early stages and …