[HTML][HTML] Biofuels for a sustainable future

Y Liu, P Cruz-Morales, A Zargar, MS Belcher, B Pang… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Rapid increases of energy consumption and human dependency on fossil fuels have led to
the accumulation of greenhouse gases and consequently, climate change. As such, major …

Recent advances in butanol production by acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation

I Veza, MFM Said, ZA Latiff - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2021 - Elsevier
Butanol can be produced from renewable sources via the acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE)
fermentation route to create biobutanol or from fossil fuel to create petrobutanol. Despite the …

A comprehensive metabolic map for production of bio-based chemicals

SY Lee, HU Kim, TU Chae, JS Cho, JW Kim, JH Shin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Production of industrial chemicals using renewable biomass feedstock is becoming
increasingly important to address limited fossil resources, climate change and other …

Biological production of medium-chain carboxylates through chain elongation: an overview

J Wang, Y Yin - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Medium chain carboxylates (MCCs) have wide applications in various industries, but the
traditional MCCs production methods are costly and unsustainable. Anaerobic fermentation …

Light-driven CO2 sequestration in Escherichia coli to achieve theoretical yield of chemicals

G Hu, Z Li, D Ma, C Ye, L Zhang, C Gao, L Liu… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
CO2 sequestration engineering is an attractive strategy for achieving carbon-and energy-
efficient bioproduction. However, the efficiency of heterotrophic CO2 sequestration is limited …

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 …

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 …

Bio-jet fuel conversion technologies

WC Wang, L Tao - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Biomass-derived jet (bio-jet) fuel has become a key element in the aviation industry׳ s
strategy to reduce operating costs and environmental impacts. Researchers from the oil …

Lipid production in Yarrowia lipolytica is maximized by engineering cytosolic redox metabolism

K Qiao, TM Wasylenko, K Zhou, P Xu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Microbial factories have been engineered to produce lipids from carbohydrate feedstocks for
production of biofuels and oleochemicals. However, even the best yields obtained to date …

Systems strategies for developing industrial microbial strains

SY Lee, HU Kim - Nature biotechnology, 2015 - nature.com
Industrial strain development requires system-wide engineering and optimization of cellular
metabolism while considering industrially relevant fermentation and recovery processes. It …