Since the industrial revolution, the rapid growth and development of global industries have
depended largely upon the utilization of coal-derived chemicals, and more recently, the …

Amino acids are attractive and promising biochemicals with market capacity requirements
constantly increasing. Their applicability ranges from animal feed additives, flavour …

Caloric restriction (CR) stimulates development of functional beige fat and extends healthy
lifespan. Here we show that compositional and functional changes in the gut microbiota …

Succinic acid is a precursor of many important, large-volume industrial chemicals and
consumer products. It was once common knowledge that many ruminant microorganisms …

Glucose transporters are essential for metabolism of glucose in cells of diverse organisms
from microbes to humans, exemplified by the disease-related human proteins GLUT1, 2, 3 …

Background Understanding how cells make decisions, and why they make the decisions
they make, is of fundamental interest in systems biology. To address this, we study the …

Most biotechnological processes are based on glucose that is either present in molasses or
generated from starch by enzymatic hydrolysis. At the very high, million-ton scale production …

Carboxylic acids are traditionally produced from fossil fuels and have significant applications
in the chemical, pharmaceutical, food, and fuel industries. Significant progress has been …

Catabolite repression refers to the process where the metabolism of one sugar represses
the genes involved in metabolizing another sugar. While glucose provides the canonical …

We aimed to study the structural characteristics and fermentation properties of wheat bran
cell wall polysaccharides (CWPs). Sequential extractions of CWPs from wheat bran …