Concerns over climate change have necessitated a rethinking of our transportation
infrastructure. One possible alternative to carbon-polluting fossil fuels is biofuels produced …

Harnessing the process of natural selection to obtain and understand new microbial
phenotypes has become increasingly possible due to advances in culturing techniques …

Amino acids have wide application in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Current biotic
and chemical syntheses suffer from low efficiency, complex purification operations and high …

Previous research suggested that two major groups of polyphosphate-accumulating
organisms (PAOs), ie, Ca. Accumulibacter and Tetrasphaera, play cooperative roles in …

Growing concerns over limited fossil resources and associated environmental problems are
motivating the development of sustainable processes for the production of chemicals, fuels …

Butanol, an important chemical feedstock and advanced biofuel, is produced by Clostridium
species. Various efforts have been made to transfer the clostridial 1-butanol pathway into …

ATP and NADPH are two important cofactors for production of terpenoids compounds. Here
we have constructed and optimized β-carotene synthetic pathway in Escherichia coli …

The artificial disturbance in the nitrogen cycle has necessitated an urgent need for nitric
oxide (NO) removal. Electrochemical technologies for NO conversion have gained …

Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) strategies allow for the metabolic engineering of
microorganisms by combining genetic variation with the selection of beneficial mutations in …

In order to decrease carbon emissions and negative environmental impacts of various
pollutants, more bulk and/or fine chemicals are produced by bioprocesses, replacing the …