Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Metabolic engineering strategies to enable microbial utilization of C1 feedstocks

W Jiang, D Hernández Villamor, H Peng… - Nature Chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract One-carbon (C1) substrates are preferred feedstocks for the biomanufacturing
industry and have recently gained attention owing to their natural abundance, low …

[HTML][HTML] Renewable methanol and formate as microbial feedstocks

CAR Cotton, NJ Claassens, S Benito-Vaquerizo… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•One-carbon compounds can be made from CO 2 to provide renewable microbial
feedstocks.•Methanol and formate have key advantages over gaseous one-carbon …

Generation of an Escherichia coli strain growing on methanol via the ribulose monophosphate cycle

P Keller, MA Reiter, P Kiefer, T Gassler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Methanol is a liquid with high energy storage capacity that holds promise as an alternative
substrate to replace sugars in the biotechnology industry. It can be produced from CO2 or …

Technoeconomic and environmental perspectives of biofuel production from sugarcane bagasse: Current status, challenges and future outlook

S Pan, HM Zabed, Y Wei, X Qi - Industrial Crops and Products, 2022 - Elsevier
Sugarcane bagasse (SCB) is an attractive lignocellulose feedstock for biofuel production
due to its high organic content and biomass yield, and ease of collection and storage. SCB …

Nature's chemical signatures in human olfaction: a foodborne perspective for future biotechnology

A Dunkel, M Steinhaus, M Kotthoff… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The biocatalytic production of flavor naturals that determine chemosensory percepts of foods
and beverages is an ever challenging target for academic and industrial research. Advances …

Constructing a synthetic pathway for acetyl-coenzyme A from one-carbon through enzyme design

X Lu, Y Liu, Y Yang, S Wang, Q Wang, X Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Acetyl-CoA is a fundamental metabolite for all life on Earth, and is also a key starting point
for the biosynthesis of a variety of industrial chemicals and natural products. Here we design …

[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacteria and microalgae in supporting human habitation on Mars

LJ Mapstone, MN Leite, S Purton, IA Crawford… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Establishing the first human presence on Mars will be the most technically challenging
undertaking yet in the exploration beyond our planet. The remoteness of Mars from Earth …

The formate bio-economy

O Yishai, SN Lindner, JG de la Cruz… - Current Opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Formate is an ideal mediator between the physicochemical and biological
realms.•Formate can be efficiently produced from various highly available …

Economic perspectives of biogas production via anaerobic digestion

AH Bhatt, L Tao - Bioengineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
As the demand for utilizing environment-friendly and sustainable energy sources is
increasing, the adoption of waste-to-energy technologies has started gaining attention …