There is an immediate need to drastically reduce the emissions associated with global fossil
fuel consumption in order to limit climate change. However, carbon-based materials …

Owing to rising levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and oceans, climate change
poses significant environmental, economic, and social challenges globally. Technologies …

The use of gas fermentation for the production of low carbon biofuels such as ethanol or
butanol from lignocellulosic biomass is an area currently undergoing intensive research and …

Plasmids are extrachromosomal DNA elements that can be found throughout bacteria, as
well as in other domains of life. Nonetheless, the evolutionary processes underlying the …

Butanol as an advanced biofuel has gained great attention due to its environmental benefits
and superior properties compared to ethanol. However, the cost of biobutanol production via …

The outer surface of many archaea and bacteria is coated with a proteinaceous surface
layer (known as an S-layer), which is formed by the self-assembly of monomeric proteins …

Gas fermentation using acetogenic bacteria such as Clostridium autoethanogenum offers an
attractive route for production of fuel ethanol from industrial waste gases. Acetate reduction …

Practical Handbook of Microbiology, 4th edition provides basic, clear and concise
knowledge and practical information about working with microorganisms. Useful to anyone …

The CRISPR-Cas9 system is a powerful and revolutionary genome-editing tool for
eukaryotic genomes, but its use in bacterial genomes is very limited. Here, we investigated …

We present here a broad overview of the field of metabolic engineering, describing in the
first section the key fundamental principles that define and distinguish it, as well as the …