Barron, Cécile Devaux, Marie-Françoise Foucat, Loïc Falourd, Xavier Looten, Rachelle Joseph-Aime, Maud Durand, Sylvie Bonnin, Estelle Lapierre, Catherine Saulnier, Luc
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BackgroundThe recalcitrance of lignocellulosics to enzymatic saccharification has been related to many factors, including the tissue and molecular heterogeneity of the plant particles. The role of tissue heterogeneity generally assessed from plant sections is not easy to study on a large scale. In the present work, dry fractionation of ground maize...
Liu, Shihong Gonzalez, Michael Kong, Celine Weir, Scott Socha, Aaron M.
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Background Ionic liquids (ILs) are promising pretreatment solvents for lignocellulosic biomass, but are largely prepared from petroleum precursors. Benzaldehydes from depolymerized lignin, such as vanillin, syringaldehyde, and 4-methoxy benzaldehyde, represent renewable feedstocks for the synthesis of ionic liquids. We herein report syntheses of no...
Kövilein, Aline Umpfenbach, Julia Ochsenreither, Katrin
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Background Microbial malic acid production is currently not able to compete economically with well-established chemical processes using fossil resources. The utilization of inexpensive biomass-based substrates containing acetate could decrease production costs and promote the development of microbial processes. Acetate is a by-product in lignocellu...
Kadić, Adnan Várnai, Anikó Eijsink, Vincent G. H. Horn, Svein Jarle Lidén, Gunnar
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Background Biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to simple sugars at commercial scale is hampered by the high cost of saccharifying enzymes. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) may hold the key to overcome economic barriers. Recent studies have shown that controlled activation of LPMOs by a continuous H2O2 supply can boost sacch...
Fu, Jingying Yan, Xiaoxi Jiang, Dong
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Background The key problem of non-grain energy plants’ scale development is how to estimate the potential of GHG emission reduction accurately and scientifically. This study presents a method coupled DSSAT (the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer) and the life cycle assessment (LCA) method to simulate the spatial distribution of swe...
Gandla, Madhavi Latha Mähler, Niklas Escamez, Sacha Skotare, Tomas Obudulu, Ogonna Möller, Linus Abreu, Ilka N. Bygdell, Joakim Hertzberg, Magnus Hvidsten, Torgeir R.
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Background Bioconversion of wood into bioproducts and biofuels is hindered by the recalcitrance of woody raw material to bioprocesses such as enzymatic saccharification. Targeted modification of the chemical composition of the feedstock can improve saccharification but this gain is often abrogated by concomitant reduction in tree growth. Results In...
Jojima, Toru Igari, Takafumi Noburyu, Ryoji Watanabe, Akira Suda, Masako Inui, Masayuki
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Background It is interesting to modify sugar metabolic pathways to improve the productivity of biocatalysts that convert sugars to value-added products. However, this attempt often fails due to the tight control of the sugar metabolic pathways. Recently, activation of the Entner–Doudoroff (ED) pathway in Escherichia coli has been shown to enhance g...
Schmidt, Jennifer A. Richter, Lubna V. Condoluci, Lisa A. Ahner, Beth A.
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BackgroundThe global demand for functional proteins is extensive, diverse, and constantly increasing. Medicine, agriculture, and industrial manufacturing all rely on high-quality proteins as major active components or process additives. Historically, these demands have been met by microbial bioreactors that are expensive to operate and maintain, pr...
Gutmann, Friederike Jann, Cosimo Pereira, Filipa Johansson, Andreas Steinmetz, Lars M. Patil, Kiran R.
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BackgroundBaker’s yeast is a widely used eukaryotic cell factory, producing a diverse range of compounds including biofuels and fine chemicals. The use of lignocellulose as feedstock offers the opportunity to run these processes in an environmentally sustainable way. However, the required hydrolysis pretreatment of lignocellulosic material releases...
Tingley, Jeffrey P. Low, Kristin E. Xing, Xiaohui Abbott, D. Wade
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