The worldwide utilization of fossil energy, including its specific application as transportation
fuel, significantly contributes to the continuous increase of the atmospheric CO 2 …

Advanced biofuels produced by microorganisms have similar properties to petroleum-based
fuels, and can'drop in'to the existing transportation infrastructure. However, producing these …

Alcohol-forming fatty acyl reductases (FARs) catalyze the reduction of thioesters to alcohols
and are key enzymes for microbial production of fatty alcohols. Many metabolic engineering …

Increasing concerns about limited fossil fuels and global environmental problems have
focused attention on the need to develop sustainable biofuels from renewable resources …

Microbial fatty acid-derived fuels have emerged as promising alternatives to petroleum-
based transportation fuels. Here we report a modular engineering approach that …

Recent concerns over the sustainability of petrochemical-based processes for production of
desired chemicals have fueled research into alternative modes of production. Metabolic …

Advanced (long-chain) fuels and chemicals are generated from short-chain metabolic
intermediates through pathways that require carbon-chain elongation. The condensation …

Maintaining the high standards that made the previous editions such well-respected and
widely used references, Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology, Fourth Edition …

The idea of renewable and regenerative resources has inspired research for more than a
hundred years. Ideally, the only spent energy will replenish itself, like plant material …

To construct a superior microbial cell factory for chemical synthesis, a major challenge is to
fully exploit cellular potential by identifying and engineering beneficial gene targets in …