Pelagibaca bermudensis promotes biofuel competence of Tetraselmis striata in a broad range of abiotic stressors: dynamics of quorum-sensing precursors and strategic improvement in lipid productivity.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial synthesis of oleochemicals derived from native fatty acid (FA) metabolism has presented significant advances in recent years. Even so, native FA biosynthetic pathways often provide a narrow variety of usually linear hydrocarbons, thus yielding end products with limited structural diversity. To over...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Menendez-Bravo S,Roulet J,Sabatini M,Comba S,Dunn R,Gramajo H,Arabolaza A

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ionic liquid (IL) pretreatment is receiving significant attention as a potential process that enables fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass and produces high yields of fermentable sugars suitable for the production of renewable fuels. However, successful optimization and scale up of IL pretreatment involv...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Li C,Tanjore D,He W,Wong J,Gardner JL,Sale KL,Simmons BA,Singh S

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：Background:2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BDO) is a valuable chemical for industrial applications. Bacteria can produce 2,3-BDO with a high productivity, though most of their classification as pathogens makes them undesirable for the industrial-scale production. Though Saccharomyces cerevisiae (GRAS microorganism) was engineered ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Lee YG,Seo JH

更新日期：2019-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rut-C30 is a cellulase-hyperproducing Trichoderma reesei strain and, consequently, became the ancestor of most industry strains used in the production of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes, in particular cellulases. Due to three rounds of undirected mutagenesis its genetic background differs from the wild-typ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Mello-de-Sousa TM,Gorsche R,Rassinger A,Poças-Fonseca MJ,Mach RL,Mach-Aigner AR

更新日期：2014-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thermoanaerobacter saccharolyticum is a thermophilic microorganism that has been engineered to produce ethanol at high titer (30-70 g/L) and greater than 90 % theoretical yield. However, few genes involved in pyruvate to ethanol production pathway have been unambiguously identified. In T. saccharolyticum, th...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Zhou J,Olson DG,Lanahan AA,Tian L,Murphy SJ,Lo J,Lynd LR

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mass transfer plays an important role in determining the efficiency of the biofuel conversion. However, adverse effect of shear stress from traditional agitation inhibits the cell growth and production of biofuels. How to enhance the mass transfer with less adverse effect is considered as one of the importan...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Xia ML,Wang L,Yang ZX,Chen HZ

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Solid-state anaerobic digestion (SS-AD) has been increasingly used for lignocellulosic biomass treatment. However, the separate reactor required for pretreatment prior digestion, poor treatment capacity, and process stability inhibit further development of the SS-AD. In this study, a novel method called SS-A...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Yao Y,Chen S

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In the enzymatic conversion of biomass, it becomes an important issue to efficiently and cost-effectively degrade cellulose into fermentable glucose. β-Glucosidase (Bgluc), an essential member of cellulases, plays a critical role in cellulosic biomass degradation. The difficulty in improving the stability of...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Zhou Y,Li X,Yan D,Addai Peprah F,Ji X,Fletcher EE,Wang Y,Wang Y,Gu J,Lin F,Shi H

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellulose amorphogenesis, described as the non-hydrolytic "opening up" or disruption of a cellulosic substrate, is becoming increasingly recognized as one of the key steps in the enzymatic deconstruction of cellulosic biomass when used as a feedstock for fuels and chemicals production. Although this process ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Gourlay K,Arantes V,Saddler JN

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The search for novel thermostable xylanases for industrial use has intensified in recent years, and thermophilic fungi are a promising source of useful enzymes. The present work reports the heterologous expression and biochemical characterization of a novel thermostable xylanase (GH10) from the thermophilic ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Ribeiro LF,De Lucas RC,Vitcosque GL,Ribeiro LF,Ward RJ,Rubio MV,Damásio AR,Squina FM,Gregory RC,Walton PH,Jorge JA,Prade RA,Buckeridge MS,Polizeli Mde L

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Functional sugar alcohols have been widely used in the food, medicine, and pharmaceutical industries for their unique properties. Among these, erythritol is a zero calories sweetener produced by the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica. However, in wild-type strains, erythritol is produced with low productivity and yie...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Wang N,Chi P,Zou Y,Xu Y,Xu S,Bilal M,Fickers P,Cheng H

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thermochemical pretreatment of lignocellulose is crucial to bioconversion in the fields of biorefinery and biofuels. However, the enzyme inhibitors in pretreatment hydrolysate make solid substrate washing and hydrolysate detoxification indispensable prior to enzymatic hydrolysis. Sulfite pretreatment to over...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Wang Z,Zhu J,Fu Y,Qin M,Shao Z,Jiang J,Yang F

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alkaline hydrogen peroxide pretreatment catalyzed by Cu(II) 2,2'-bipyridine complexes has previously been determined to substantially improve the enzymatic hydrolysis of woody plants including hybrid poplar as a consequence of moderate delignification. In the present work, cell wall morphological and lignin ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Li Z,Bansal N,Azarpira A,Bhalla A,Chen CH,Ralph J,Hegg EL,Hodge DB

更新日期：2015-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Editorial introduction to the thematic series on the life and lifework of Mary Mandels. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Bayer EA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acid hydrolysis is a popular pretreatment for removing hemicellulose from lignocelluloses in order to produce a digestible substrate for enzymatic saccharification. In this work, a novel model for the dilute acid hydrolysis of hemicellulose within sugarcane bagasse is presented and calibrated against experim...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Greenwood AA,Farrell TW,Zhang Z,O'Hara IM

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lignocellulosic ethanol has a high potential as renewable energy source. In recent years, much research effort has been spent to optimize parameters involved in the production process. Despite that, there is still a lack of comprehensive studies on process integration. Single parameters and process configura...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Novy V,Longus K,Nidetzky B

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Plant biomass is an abundant but underused feedstock for bioenergy production due to its complex and variable composition, which resists breakdown into fermentable sugars. These feedstocks, however, are routinely degraded by many uncommercialized microbes such as anaerobic gut fungi. These gut fungi express ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Hooker CA,Hillman ET,Overton JC,Ortiz-Velez A,Schacht M,Hunnicutt A,Mosier NS,Solomon KV

更新日期：2018-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz, known by such popular names as "gold-of-pleasure" and "false flax," is an alternative oilseed crop for biofuel production and can be grown in harsh environments. Considerable interest is now being given to the new concept of the development of a fusion plant which can be used as ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Park W,Feng Y,Ahn SJ

更新日期：2014-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low cost of raw materials and good process yields are necessary for future lignocellulosic biomass biorefineries to be sustainable and profitable. A low cost feedstock will be diverse, changing as a function of seasonality and price and will most likely be available from multiple sources to the biorefinery. ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Vera RM,Bura R,Gustafson R

更新日期：2015-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) is a promising process for bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass. High glucan loading for hydrolysis and fermentation is an efficient approach to reduce the capital costs for bio-based products production. The SSF of steam-exploded corn stover (SECS) fo...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Liu ZH,Qin L,Zhu JQ,Li BZ,Yuan YJ

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The model alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii requires acetate as a co-substrate for optimal production of lipids, and the addition of acetate to culture media has practical and economic implications for algal biofuel production. Here we demonstrate the growth of C. reinhardtii on acetate provided by mutant strai...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Therien JB,Zadvornyy OA,Posewitz MC,Bryant DA,Peters JW

更新日期：2014-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To make lignocellulosic fuel ethanol economically competitive with fossil fuels, it is necessary to reduce the production cost. One way to achieve this is by increasing the substrate concentration in the production process, and thus reduce the energy demand in the final distillation of the fermentation broth...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Hoyer K,Galbe M,Zacchi G

更新日期：2010-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and inexpensive resource for biofuel production. Alongside its biotechnological conversion, pretreatment is essential to enable efficient enzymatic hydrolysis by making cellulose susceptible to cellulases. Wet oxidation of biomass, such as acetone/water oxidation, that ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Katsimpouras C,Kalogiannis KG,Kalogianni A,Lappas AA,Topakas E

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lipid/carbohydrate content and ratio are extremely important when engineering algal cells for liquid biofuel production. However, conventional methods for such determination and quantification are not only destructive and tedious, but also energy consuming and environment unfriendly. In this study, we first ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Chiu LD,Ho SH,Shimada R,Ren NQ,Ozawa T

更新日期：2017-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Development of biofuels is considered as one of the important ways to replace conventional fossil energy and mitigate climate change. However, rapid increase of biofuel production could cause other environmental concerns in China such as water stress. This study is intended to evaluate the life-cycle water f...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Xie X,Zhang T,Wang L,Huang Z

更新日期：2017-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:In the present study, three ionic liquids, namely 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([BMIM]Cl), 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([EMIM]OAc), and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium diethyl phosphate ([EMIM]DEP), were used to partially dissolve rice husk, after which the cellulose were regenerated...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Ang TN,Ngoh GC,Chua AS,Lee MG

更新日期：2012-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Biomass-derived jet fuel is an alternative jet fuel (AJF) showing promise of reducing the dependence on fossil fuel and greenhouse gas emissions. Hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) concept is also known as one of the pathways for producing bio jet fuel. HEFA fuel was approved by the American Societ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Tao L,Milbrandt A,Zhang Y,Wang WC

更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulation of recalcitrant oligosaccharides during high-solids loading enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulosic biomass reduces biofuel yields and increases processing costs for a cellulosic biorefinery. Recalcitrant oligosaccharides in AFEX-pretreated corn stover hydrolysate accumulate to the extent of about 18...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： Xue S,Uppugundla N,Bowman MJ,Cavalier D,Da Costa Sousa L,E Dale B,Balan V

更新日期：2015-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic and proteomic analysis are potent tools for metabolic characterization of microorganisms. Although cellulose usually triggers cellulase production in cellulolytic fungi, the secretion of the different enzymes involved in polymer conversion is subjected to different factors, depending on growth condit...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： de Eugenio LI,Méndez-Líter JA,Nieto-Domínguez M,Alonso L,Gil-Muñoz J,Barriuso J,Prieto A,Martínez MJ

更新日期：2017-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) have gained attention for their ability to produce a valuable clean energy source in the form biohydrogen via photofermentation of a wide variety of organic wastes. For maturation of these phototrophic bioprocesses towards commercial feasibility, development of ...

journal_title：Biotechnology for biofuels

authors： du Toit JP,Pott RWM

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00