Engineering Clostridium for improved solvent production: recent progress and perspective

C Cheng, T Bao, ST Yang - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2019 - Springer
Clostridia are Gram-positive, spore-forming, obligate anaerobic bacteria that can produce
solvents such as acetone, ethanol, and butanol, which can be used as biofuels or building …

The emerging role of aldehyde: ferredoxin oxidoreductases in microbially-catalyzed alcohol production

LS Nissen, M Basen - Journal of biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of a bio-refinery industry based on liquid fuels is presumably key to
successful replacement of fossil fuels and a reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions …

Metabolic engineering of Clostridium carboxidivorans for enhanced ethanol and butanol production from syngas and glucose

C Cheng, W Li, M Lin, ST Yang - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Clostridium carboxidivorans can convert CO 2, CO and H 2 to ethanol and n-butanol;
however, its industrial application is limited by the lack of tools for metabolic pathway …

Production of Hexanol as the Main Product Through Syngas Fermentation by Clostridium carboxidivorans P7

HJ Oh, JK Ko, G Gong, SM Lee, Y Um - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The production of hexanol from syngas by acetogens has gained attention as a replacement
for petroleum-derived hexanol, which is widely used in the chemical synthesis and plastic …

n-Butanol and ethanol production from cellulose by Clostridium cellulovorans overexpressing heterologous aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenases

T Bao, J Zhao, J Li, X Liu, ST Yang - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
With high cellulolytic and acetic/butyric acids production abilities, Clostridium cellulovorans
is promising for use to produce cellulosic n-butanol. Here, we introduced three different …

Microbial insights of enhanced anaerobic conversion of syngas into volatile fatty acids by co-fermentation with carbohydrate-rich synthetic wastewater

C Liu, W Wang, S O-Thong, Z Yang, S Zhang… - Biotechnology for …, 2020 - Springer
Background The co-fermentation of syngas (mainly CO, H 2 and CO 2) and different
concentrations of carbohydrate/protein synthetic wastewater to produce volatile fatty acids …

13C-metabolic flux analysis of Clostridium ljungdahlii illuminates its core metabolism under mixotrophic culture conditions

ML Dahle, ET Papoutsakis, MR Antoniewicz - Metabolic Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide-fixing acetogenic bacteria (acetogens) utilizing the Wood-Ljungdahl
Pathway (WLP) play an important role in CO 2 fixation in the biosphere and in the …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced aspects of acetogens

A Poehlein, B Zeldes, M Flaiz, T Böer, A Lüschen… - Bioresource …, 2024 - Elsevier
Acetogens are a diverse group of anaerobic bacteria that are capable of carbon dioxide
fixation and have for long fascinated scientists due to their unique metabolic prowess …

[HTML][HTML] Biogas upgrading towards acetic acid production using Clostridium thailandense supplemented with granular activated carbon (GAC) and L-arginine: A …

S Chaikitkaew, N Wongfaed, C Mamimin… - Carbon Resources …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study explores the impact of granular activated carbon (GAC) and L-arginine
supplementation on biogas upgrading and acetic acid production employing Clostridium …

Structural insight into a molecular mechanism of methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase from Methylobacterium extorquens AM1

S Kim, SH Lee, IK Kim, H Seo, KJ Kim - International Journal of Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bioconversion of the C1 compounds into value-added products is one of the CO 2-reducing
strategies. In particular, because CO 2 can be easily converted into formate, the efficient and …