Francois, Jean Marie Alkim, Ceren Morin, Nicolas
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Biotechnology for Biofuels
Lignocellulose is the most abundant biomass on earth with an annual production of about 2 × 1011 tons. It is an inedible renewable carbonaceous resource that is very rich in pentose and hexose sugars. The ability of microorganisms to use lignocellulosic sugars can be exploited for the production of biofuels and chemicals, and their concurrent biote...
Wu, Wenyang Du, Wei Gallego, Ruth Perez Hellingwerf, Klaas J. van der Woude, Aniek D. Branco dos Santos, Filipe
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Biotechnology for Biofuels
BackgroundMannitol is a C(6) polyol that is used in the food and medical sector as a sweetener and antioxidant, respectively. The sustainable production of mannitol, especially via the direct conversion of CO2 by photosynthetic cyanobacteria, has become increasingly appealing. However, previous work aiming to achieve mannitol production in the mari...
Lu, Hengqian Chen, Haiqin Tang, Xin Yang, Qin Zhang, Hao Chen, Yong Q. Chen, Wei
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BackgroundGlobal resource reallocation is an established critical strategy through which organisms deal with environmental stress. The regulation of intracellular lipid storage or utilization is one of the most important strategies for maintaining energy homeostasis and optimizing growth. Oleaginous microorganisms respond to nitrogen deprivation by...
Liu, Yilan Chen, Jinjin Khusnutdinova, Anna N. Correia, Kevin Diep, Patrick Batyrova, Khorcheska A. Nemr, Kayla Flick, Robert Stogios, Peter Yakunin, Alexander F.
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BackgroundAldehyde decarbonylases (ADs), which convert acyl aldehydes into alkanes, supply promising solution for producing alkanes from renewable feedstock. However the instability of ADs impedes their further application. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the degradation mechanism of ADs and engineer it towards high stability.Resu...
Zhang, Alei Mo, Xiaofang Zhou, Ning Wang, Yingying Wei, Guoguang Chen, Jie Chen, Kequan Ouyang, Pingkai
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BackgroundN-Acetyl glucosamine (GlcNAc) and N-Acetyl chitooligosaccharides (N-Acetyl COSs) exhibit many biological activities, and have been widely used in the pharmaceutical, agriculture, food, and chemical industries. Particularly, higher N-Acetyl COSs with degree of polymerization from 4 to 7 ((GlcNAc)4–(GlcNAc)7) show good antitumor and antimic...
Prabhu, Ashish A. Ledesma-Amaro, Rodrigo Lin, Carol Sze Ki Coulon, Frederic Thakur, Vijay Kumar Kumar, Vinod
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Biotechnology for Biofuels
BackgroundXylose is the most prevalent sugar available in hemicellulose fraction of lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) and of great interest for the green economy. Unfortunately, most of the cell factories cannot inherently metabolize xylose as sole carbon source. Yarrowia lipolytica is a non-conventional yeast that produces industrially important metab...
Wang, Ying Chan, Ka-Lai Abdel-Rahman, Mohamed Ali Sonomoto, Kenji Leu, Shao-Yuan
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BackgroundThe simultaneous and effective conversion of both pentose and hexose in fermentation is a critical and challenging task toward the lignocellulosic economy. This study aims to investigate the feasibility of an innovative co-fermentation process featuring with a cell recycling unit (CF/CR) for mixed sugar utilization. A l-lactic acid-produc...
Xia, Menglei Peng, Mingmeng Xue, Danni Cheng, Yang Li, Caixia Wang, Di Lu, Kai Zheng, Yu Xia, Ting song, Jia
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BackgroundThe industrial vinegar residue (VR) from solid-state fermentation, mainly cereals and their bran, will be a potential feedstock for future biofuels because of their low cost and easy availability. However, utilization of VR for butanol production has not been as much optimized as other sources of lignocellulose, which mainly stem from two...
Colina, Francisco Carbó, María Meijón, Mónica Cañal, María Jesús Valledor, Luis
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BackgroundThe exposure of microalgae and plants to low UV-C radiation dosages can improve their biomass composition and stress tolerance. Despite UV-C sharing these effects with UV-A/B but at much lower dosages, UV-C sensing and signal mechanisms are still mostly unknown. Thus, we have described and integrated the proteometabolomic and physiologica...
You, Wuxin Wei, Li Gong, Yanhai Hajjami, Mohamed El Xu, Jian Poetsch, Ansgar
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BackgroundUnder nitrogen deficiency situation, Nannochloropsis spp. accumulate large amounts of lipids in the form of triacylglycerides (TAG). Mechanisms of this process from the perspective of transcriptome and metabolome have been obtained previously, yet proteome analysis is still sparse which hinders the analysis of dynamic adaption to nitrogen...
