Halophiles, coming stars for industrial biotechnology

J Yin, JC Chen, Q Wu, GQ Chen - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
Industrial biotechnology aims to produce chemicals, materials and biofuels to ease the
challenges of shortage on petroleum. However, due to the disadvantages of bioprocesses …

Synthesis and production of polyhydroxyalkanoates by halophiles: current potential and future prospects

J Quillaguamán, H Guzmán, D Van-Thuoc… - Applied microbiology …, 2010 - Springer
Biodegradable materials with plastic or elastomeric properties are in great demand for a
variety of applications. Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), polyesters synthesized by …

Salinity shapes microbial diversity and community structure in surface sediments of the Qinghai-Tibetan Lakes

J Yang, L Ma, H Jiang, G Wu, H Dong - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Investigating microbial response to environmental variables is of great importance for
understanding of microbial acclimatization and evolution in natural environments. However …

Advances on waste valorization: new horizons for a more sustainable society

RAD Arancon, CSK Lin, KM Chan… - Energy Science & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Increasingly tighter regulations regarding organic waste, and the demand for renewable
chemicals and fuels, are pushing the manufacturing industry toward higher sustainability to …

Unsterile and continuous production of polyhydroxybutyrate by Halomonas TD01

D Tan, YS Xue, G Aibaidula, GQ Chen - Bioresource technology, 2011 - Elsevier
An unsterile and continuous fermentation process was developed based on a halophilic
bacterium termed Halomonas TD01 isolated from a salt lake in ** the next generation industrial
biotechnology (NGIB) due to their resistance to microbial contamination. However …

Bolivian natural zeolite as a low-cost adsorbent for the adsorption of cadmium: Isotherms and kinetics

L Velarde, D Nikjoo, E Escalera, F Akhtar - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Population growth in recent years has led to increased wastewater production and pollution
of water resources. This situation also heavily affects Bolivia, so wastewater treatment …

A synthetic, light-driven consortium of cyanobacteria and heterotrophic bacteria enables stable polyhydroxybutyrate production

TL Weiss, EJ Young, DC Ducat - Metabolic engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
We previously reported that Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942, engineered with the
sucrose transporter CscB, can export up to 85% of its photosynthetically-fixed carbon as …

Precipitation of Zn (II), Cu (II) and Pb (II) at bench-scale using biogenic hydrogen sulfide from the utilization of volatile fatty acids

MT Alvarez, C Crespo, B Mattiasson - Chemosphere, 2007 - Elsevier
Biological production of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) using sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) has
important potential within environmental biotechnology. The aim of this work was to study …

Microbial response to salinity change in Lake Chaka, a hypersaline lake on Tibetan plateau

H Jiang, H Dong, B Yu, X Liu, Y Li, S Ji… - Environmental …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Previous investigations of the salinity effects on the microbial community composition have
largely been limited to dynamic estuaries and coastal solar salterns. In this study, the effects …