Cell wall hemicellulose for sustainable industrial utilization

MF Qaseem, H Shaheen, AM Wu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite a steady decline in fossil resources in past few decades, demand for petroleum-
based chemicals and polymers has increased sharply. As the dead end of the petroleum …

Escherichia coli as a host for metabolic engineering

S Pontrelli, TY Chiu, EI Lan, FYH Chen, P Chang… - Metabolic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past century, Escherichia coli has become one of the best studied organisms on
earth. Features such as genetic tractability, favorable growth conditions, well characterized …

Solar-driven waste-to-chemical conversion by wastewater-derived semiconductor biohybrids

S Pi, W Yang, W Feng, R Yang, W Chao, W Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Semiconductor biohybrids integrating the merits of living cells and semiconductor materials
have the potential to shift the current energy-intensive chemical production system to a more …

Prospects on bio-based 2, 3-butanediol and acetoin production: Recent progress and advances

S Maina, AA Prabhu, N Vivek, A Vlysidis… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The bio-based platform chemicals 2, 3-butanediol (BDO) and acetoin have various
applications in chemical, cosmetics, food, agriculture, and pharmaceutical industries …

Microbial production of 2, 3-butanediol for industrial applications

CW Song, JM Park, SC Chung, SY Lee… - Journal of Industrial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Butanediol (2, 3-BD) has great potential for diverse industries, including chemical,
cosmetics, agriculture, and pharmaceutical areas. However, its industrial production and …

DCEO biotechnology: tools to design, construct, evaluate, and optimize the metabolic pathway for biosynthesis of chemicals

X Chen, C Gao, L Guo, G Hu, Q Luo, J Liu… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Chemical synthesis is a well established route for producing many chemicals on a large
scale, but some drawbacks still exist in this process, such as unstable intermediates …

Recent advances in the production of value added chemicals and lipids utilizing biodiesel industry generated crude glycerol as a substrate–Metabolic aspects …

N Vivek, R Sindhu, A Madhavan, AJ Anju, E Castro… - Bioresource …, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the major ecological concerns associated with biodiesel production is the generation
of waste/crude glycerol during the trans-esterification process. Purification of this crude …

Designing the bioproduction of Martian rocket propellant via a biotechnology-enabled in situ resource utilization strategy

NS Kruyer, MJ Realff, W Sun, CL Genzale… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mars colonization demands technological advances to enable the return of humans to Earth.
Shipping the propellant and oxygen for a return journey is not viable. Considering the …

Strategies for efficient and economical 2, 3-butanediol production: new trends in this field

AM Białkowska - World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2016 - Springer
Butanediol (2, 3-BD) is a promising bulk chemical with a potentially wide range of
applications eg, in the manufacture of printing inks, perfumes, synthetic rubber, fumigants …

Metabolic engineering of Zymomonas mobilis for 2,3-butanediol production from lignocellulosic biomass sugars

S Yang, A Mohagheghi, MA Franden, YC Chou… - Biotechnology for …, 2016 - Springer
Background To develop pathways for advanced biofuel production, and to understand the
impact of host metabolism and environmental conditions on heterologous pathway …