Bioprospecting of microbial strains for biofuel production: metabolic engineering, applications, and challenges

MF Adegboye, OB Ojuederie, PM Talia… - Biotechnology for …, 2021 - Springer
The issues of global warming, coupled with fossil fuel depletion, have undoubtedly led to
renewed interest in other sources of commercial fuels. The search for renewable fuels has …

Production of butanol from lignocellulosic biomass: recent advances, challenges, and prospects

Y Guo, Y Liu, M Guan, H Tang, Z Wang, L Lin… - RSC advances, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to energy and environmental concerns, biobutanol is gaining increasing attention as an
alternative renewable fuel owing to its desirable fuel properties. Biobutanol production from …

Enhanced adipic acid production from sugarcane bagasse by a rapid room temperature pretreatment

M Wu, J Di, L Gong, YC He, C Ma, Y Deng - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Adipic acid is an important precursor for manufacturing Nylon-66, and various efficient
renewable routes for adipic acid from lignocellulosic biomass are being explored. To …

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for producing adipic acid through the reverse adipate-degradation pathway

M Zhao, D Huang, X Zhang, MAG Koffas, J Zhou… - Metabolic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Adipic acid is an important dicarboxylic acid mainly used for the production of nylon 6–6
fibers and resins. Previous studies focused on the biological production of adipic acid …

Pathway dissection, regulation, engineering and application: lessons learned from biobutanol production by solventogenic clostridia

S Li, L Huang, C Ke, Z Pang, L Liu - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2020 - Springer
The global energy crisis and limited supply of petroleum fuels have rekindled the interest in
utilizing a sustainable biomass to produce biofuel. Butanol, an advanced biofuel, is a …

Butanol production from lignocellulosic biomass: revisiting fermentation performance indicators with exploratory data analysis

C Birgen, P Dürre, HA Preisig, A Wentzel - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2019 - Springer
After just more than 100 years of history of industrial acetone–butanol–ethanol (ABE)
fermentation, patented by Weizmann in the UK in 1915, butanol is again today considered a …

Recent advances and strategies in process and strain engineering for the production of butyric acid by microbial fermentation

H Luo, R Yang, Y Zhao, Z Wang, Z Liu, M Huang… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Butyric acid is an important platform chemical, which is widely used in the fields of food,
pharmaceutical, energy, etc. Microbial fermentation as an alternative approach for butyric …

Metabolic and process engineering of Clostridium cellulovorans for biofuel production from cellulose

X Yang, M Xu, ST Yang - Metabolic Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
Production of cellulosic biofuels has drawn increasing attention. However, currently no
microorganism can produce biofuels, particularly butanol, directly from cellulosic biomass …

Recent advances in n-butanol and butyrate production using engineered Clostridium tyrobutyricum

T Bao, J Feng, W Jiang, H Fu, J Wang… - World Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Acidogenic clostridia naturally producing acetic and butyric acids has attracted high interest
as a novel host for butyrate and n-butanol production. Among them, Clostridium …

Advanced bioprocessing strategies for biobutanol production from biomass

MF Ibrahim, SW Kim, S Abd-Aziz - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biobutanol production as a renewable and sustainable biofuel is gaining interest in
replacing non-renewable and depleting petrol fuel. In addition to its superior characteristics …