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 …

Enzymes, In Vivo Biocatalysis, and Metabolic Engineering for Enabling a Circular Economy and Sustainability

P Intasian, K Prakinee, A Phintha, D Trisrivirat… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
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 …

Microbial engineering for the production of advanced biofuels

PP Peralta-Yahya, F Zhang, SB Del Cardayre… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Advanced biofuels produced by microorganisms have similar properties to petroleum-based
fuels, and can'drop in'to the existing transportation infrastructure. However, producing these …

An algal photoenzyme converts fatty acids to hydrocarbons

D Sorigué, B Légeret, S Cuiné, S Blangy, S Moulin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Although many organisms capture or respond to sunlight, few enzymes are known to be
driven by light. Among these are DNA photolyases and the photosynthetic reaction centers …

Recent advances in microbial CO2 fixation and conversion to value-added products

H Salehizadeh, N Yan, R Farnood - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing CO 2 levels in atmosphere has led to the unprecedented climate change in
recent years. Conventional methods for CO 2 capture are often cost inefficient, unsafe and …

Natural product biosynthetic diversity and comparative genomics of the cyanobacteria

E Dittmann, M Gugger, K Sivonen, DP Fewer - Trends in microbiology, 2015 - cell.com
Cyanobacteria are an ancient lineage of slow-growing photosynthetic bacteria and a prolific
source of natural products with intricate chemical structures and potent biological activities …

Barriers and opportunities in bio-based production of hydrocarbons

YJ Zhou, EJ Kerkhoven, J Nielsen - Nature Energy, 2018 - nature.com
Global climate change caused by the accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) has
caused concerns regarding the continued reliance on fossil fuels as our primary energy …

Cyanobacteria: promising biocatalysts for sustainable chemical production

CJ Knoot, J Ungerer, PP Wangikar… - Journal of Biological …, 2018 - ASBMB
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes showing great promise as biocatalysts for the
direct conversion of CO 2 into fuels, chemicals, and other value-added products. Introduction …

Cyanobacteria: photoautotrophic microbial factories for the sustainable synthesis of industrial products

NS Lau, M Matsui, AAA Abdullah - BioMed research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacteria are widely distributed Gram‐negative bacteria with a long evolutionary
history and the only prokaryotes that perform plant‐like oxygenic photosynthesis …

Harnessing yeast peroxisomes for biosynthesis of fatty-acid-derived biofuels and chemicals with relieved side-pathway competition

YJ Zhou, NA Buijs, Z Zhu, DO Gómez… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Establishing efficient synthetic pathways for microbial production of biochemicals is often
hampered by competing pathways and/or insufficient precursor supply …