Fuelling the future: microbial engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels

JC Liao, L Mi, S Pontrelli, S Luo - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Global climate change linked to the accumulation of greenhouse gases has caused
concerns regarding the use of fossil fuels as the major energy source. To mitigate climate …

Physiological limitations and opportunities in microbial metabolic engineering

J Montaño López, L Duran, JL Avalos - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic engineering can have a pivotal role in increasing the environmental sustainability
of the transportation and chemical manufacturing sectors. The field has already developed …

Recent advances in microbial CO2 fixation and conversion to value-added products

H Salehizadeh, N Yan, R Farnood - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing CO 2 levels in atmosphere has led to the unprecedented climate change in
recent years. Conventional methods for CO 2 capture are often cost inefficient, unsafe and …

Microbial engineering for the production of advanced biofuels

PP Peralta-Yahya, F Zhang, SB Del Cardayre… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Advanced biofuels produced by microorganisms have similar properties to petroleum-based
fuels, and can'drop in'to the existing transportation infrastructure. However, producing these …

Cyanobacteria: Review of current potentials and applications

Z Zahra, DH Choo, H Lee, A Parveen - Environments, 2020 - mdpi.com
Continual increases in the human population and growing concerns related to the energy
crisis, food security, disease outbreaks, global warming, and other environmental issues …

Improving fatty acids production by engineering dynamic pathway regulation and metabolic control

P Xu, L Li, F Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Global energy demand and environmental concerns have stimulated increasing efforts to
produce carbon-neutral fuels directly from renewable resources. Microbially derived …

Exploiting diversity and synthetic biology for the production of algal biofuels

DR Georgianna, SP Mayfield - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Modern life is intimately linked to the availability of fossil fuels, which continue to meet the
world's growing energy needs even though their use drives climate change, exhausts finite …

Recent developments in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering in microalgae towards biofuel production

S Jagadevan, A Banerjee, C Banerjee, C Guria… - Biotechnology for …, 2018 - Springer
In the wake of the uprising global energy crisis, microalgae have emerged as an alternate
feedstock for biofuel production. In addition, microalgae bear immense potential as bio-cell …

Potential of industrial biotechnology with cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae

RH Wijffels, O Kruse, KJ Hellingwerf - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2013 - Elsevier
Both cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae are promising organisms for sustainable
production of bulk products such as food, feed, materials, chemicals and fuels. In this review …

Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete carbon conservation

IW Bogorad, TS Lin, JC Liao - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Glycolysis, or its variations, is a fundamental metabolic pathway in life that functions in
almost all organisms to decompose external or intracellular sugars. The pathway involves …