Microbial production of advanced biofuels

J Keasling, H Garcia Martin, TS Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Concerns over climate change have necessitated a rethinking of our transportation
infrastructure. One possible alternative to carbon-polluting fossil fuels is biofuels produced …

Designing microbial cell factories for the production of chemicals

JS Cho, GB Kim, H Eun, CW Moon, SY Lee - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
The sustainable production of chemicals from renewable, nonedible biomass has emerged
as an essential alternative to address pressing environmental issues arising from our heavy …

Mixed plastics waste valorization through tandem chemical oxidation and biological funneling

KP Sullivan, AZ Werner, KJ Ramirez, LD Ellis… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Mixed plastics waste represents an abundant and largely untapped feedstock for the
production of valuable products. The chemical diversity and complexity of these materials …

CRISPR RNA-guided integrases for high-efficiency, multiplexed bacterial genome engineering

PLH Vo, C Ronda, SE Klompe, EE Chen, C Acree… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Existing technologies for site-specific integration of kilobase-sized DNA sequences in
bacteria are limited by low efficiency, a reliance on recombination, the need for multiple …

Industrial biotechnology of Pseudomonas putida: advances and prospects

A Weimer, M Kohlstedt, DC Volke, PI Nikel… - Applied Microbiology …, 2020 - Springer
Pseudomonas putida is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that can be encountered in
diverse ecological habitats. This ubiquity is traced to its remarkably versatile metabolism …

Lignin conversion to β-ketoadipic acid by Pseudomonas putida via metabolic engineering and bioprocess development

AZ Werner, WT Cordell, CW Lahive, BC Klein… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Bioconversion of a heterogeneous mixture of lignin-related aromatic compounds (LRCs) to a
single product via microbial biocatalysts is a promising approach to valorize lignin. Here …

[HTML][HTML] A field of dreams: Lignin valorization into chemicals, materials, fuels, and health-care products

J Becker, C Wittmann - Biotechnology Advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Lignin is one of the most abundant renewable resources on earth and is readily produced as
a sidestream during biomass fractioning. So far, these large quantities of lignin have been …

Critical enzyme reactions in aromatic catabolism for microbial lignin conversion

E Erickson, A Bleem, E Kuatsjah, AZ Werner… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
The application of microbes to valorize aromatic compounds derived from the abundant
plant biopolymer lignin is a rapidly develo** area of research that may ultimately enable …

Chasing bacterial chassis for metabolic engineering: a perspective review from classical to non‐traditional microorganisms

P Calero, PI Nikel - Microbial Biotechnology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of novel
bacterial species that hold potential to be used for metabolic engineering. Historically …

Heterologous expression of bacterial natural product biosynthetic pathways

L Huo, JJ Hug, C Fu, X Bian, Y Zhang… - Natural product reports, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2013 to June 2018 Heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic
pathways is of increasing interest in microbial biotechnology, drug discovery and …