Natural products as biofuels and bio-based chemicals: fatty acids and isoprenoids

Biosynthesis of odd-chain fatty alcohols in Escherichia coli

(2015) Ying-Xiu Cao et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Principal component analysis of proteomics (PCAP) as a tool to direct metabolic engineering

(2015) Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Metabolic engineering for the high-yield production of isoprenoid-based C5 alcohols in E. coli

(2015) Kevin W. George et al.   Scientific Reports

Genetically engineering cyanobacteria to convert CO2, water, and light into the long-chain hydrocarbon farnesene

(2014) Charles Halfmann et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Correlation analysis of targeted proteins and metabolites to assess and engineer microbial isopentenol production

(2014) Kevin W. George et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Hydrogen peroxide-independent production of α-alkenes by OleTJE P450 fatty acid decarboxylase

(2014) Yi Liu et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Fatty acid synthesis in Escherichia coli and its applications towards the production of fatty acid based biofuels

(2014) Helge Janßen et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Production of anteiso-branched fatty acids in Escherichia coli ; next generation biofuels with improved cold-flow properties

(2014) Robert W. Haushalter et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Substantial improvements in methyl ketone production in E. coli and insights on the pathway from in vitro studies

(2014) Ee-Been Goh et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Microbial production of sabinene—a new terpene-based precursor of advanced biofuel

(2014) Haibo Zhang et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

MEP pathway-mediated isopentenol production in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli

(2014) Huaiwei Liu et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Methylerythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway metabolic regulation

(2014) A. Banerjee et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

A brief history of synthetic biology

(2014) D. Ewen Cameron et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Semi-synthetic artemisinin: a model for the use of synthetic biology in pharmaceutical development

(2014) Chris J. Paddon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Scalable production of mechanically tunable block polymers from sugar

(2014) M. Xiong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Constructing Tailored Isoprenoid Products by Structure-Guided Modification of Geranylgeranyl Reductase

(2014) Yan Kung et al.   STRUCTURE

Improving Microbial Biogasoline Production in Escherichia coli Using Tolerance Engineering

(2014) Jee Loon Foo et al.   mBio

An auto-inducible mechanism for ionic liquid resistance in microbial biofuel production

(2014) Thomas L. Ruegg et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial Synthesis of Pinene

(2014) Stephen Sarria et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Metabolic engineering of 2-pentanone synthesis inEscherichia coli

(2013) Ethan I. Lan et al.   AICHE JOURNAL

Methylerythritol Phosphate Pathway of Isoprenoid Biosynthesis

(2013) Lishan Zhao et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Biochemical and Structural Studies of NADH-Dependent FabG Used To Increase the Bacterial Production of Fatty Acids under Anaerobic Conditions

(2013) Pouya Javidpour et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Engineering of Ralstonia eutropha H16 for Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Production of Methyl Ketones

(2013) J. Muller et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production of fatty acid ethyl esters, an advanced biofuel, by eliminating non-essential fatty acid utilization pathways

(2013) Juan Octavio Valle-Rodríguez et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for high-specificity production of isoprenol and prenol as next generation of biofuels

(2013) Yanning Zheng et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the biosynthesis of alpha-pinene

(2013) Jianming Yang et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Biological Production of 2-Butanone inEscherichia coli

(2013) Hisanari Yoneda et al.   ChemSusChem

Microbial production of fatty acid-derived fuels and chemicals

(2013) Rebecca M Lennen et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Current development in isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis and regulation

(2013) Wei-chen Chang et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Investigation of biofuels from microorganism metabolism for use as anti-knock additives

(2013) J. Hunter Mack et al.   FUEL

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for limonene and perillyl alcohol production

(2013) Jorge Alonso-Gutierrez et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production of fatty acid-derived biofuels and chemicals

(2013) Weerawat Runguphan et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Microbial production of short-chain alkanes

(2013) Yong Jun Choi et al.   NATURE

Synthesis of customized petroleum-replica fuel molecules by targeted modification of free fatty acid pools in Escherichia coli

(2013) T. P. Howard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synthetic Biology: Advancing the Design of Diverse Genetic Systems

(2013) Yen-Hsiang Wang et al.   Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Modular optimization of multi-gene pathways for fatty acids production in E. coli

(2013) Peng Xu et al.   Nature Communications

Synthetic Pathway for Production of Five-Carbon Alcohols from Isopentenyl Diphosphate

(2012) Howard H. Chou et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for Only Oxygenative Cleavage of Aldehydes to Alk(a/e)nes and Formate by Cyanobacterial Aldehyde Decarbonylases

(2012) Ning Li et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Functional expression and characterization of five wax ester synthases in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and their utility for biodiesel production

(2012) Shuobo Shi et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Synthesis of methyl ketones by metabolically engineered Escherichia coli

(2012) John Park et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Optimization of fatty alcohol biosynthesis pathway for selectively enhanced production of C12/14 and C16/18 fatty alcohols in engineered Escherichia coli

(2012) Yan-Ning Zheng et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Terpenoid synthase structures: a so far incomplete view of complex catalysis

(2012) Yang Gao et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Microbial engineering for the production of advanced biofuels

(2012) Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya et al.   NATURE

Design of a dynamic sensor-regulator system for production of chemicals and fuels derived from fatty acids

(2012) Fuzhong Zhang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Carboxylic acid reductase is a versatile enzyme for the conversion of fatty acids into fuels and chemical commodities

(2012) M. K. Akhtar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Engineering Escherichia coli to synthesize free fatty acids

(2012) Rebecca M. Lennen et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Expanding the Product Profile of a Microbial Alkane Biosynthetic Pathway

(2012) Matthew Harger et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Engineering Escherichia coli for Biodiesel Production Utilizing a Bacterial Fatty Acid Methyltransferase

(2011) Parwez Nawabi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Engineering of Bacterial Methyl Ketone Synthesis for Biofuels

(2011) Ee-Been Goh et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Terminal Olefin (1-Alkene) Biosynthesis by a Novel P450 Fatty Acid Decarboxylase fromJeotgalicoccusSpecies

(2011) Mathew A. Rude et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Modular Synthase-Encoding Gene Involved in α-Olefin Biosynthesis in Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002

(2011) Daniel Mendez-Perez et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biosynthesis of isoprene in Escherichia coli via methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway

(2011) Yaru Zhao et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Functional Characterization of an NADPH Dependent 2-Alkyl-3-ketoalkanoic Acid Reductase Involved in Olefin Biosynthesis inStenotrophomonas maltophilia

(2011) Shilah A. Bonnett et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Synthesis of FAEEs from glycerol in engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae using endogenously produced ethanol by heterologous expression of an unspecific bacterial acyltransferase

(2011) Kyung Ok Yu et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Solvent-Free Conversion of Linalool to Methylcyclopentadiene Dimers: A Route To Renewable High-Density Fuels

(2011) Heather A. Meylemans et al.   ChemSusChem

Synthesis and radiocarbon evidence of terephthalate polyesters completely prepared from renewable resources

(2011) Martino Colonna et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Terminal Alkene Formation by the Thioesterase of Curacin A Biosynthesis

(2011) Jennifer J. Gehret et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Purification and Characterization of OleA fromXanthomonas campestrisand Demonstration of a Non-decarboxylative Claisen Condensation Reaction

(2011) Janice A. Frias et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structure and Mutation Analysis of Archaeal Geranylgeranyl Reductase

(2011) Daisuke Sasaki et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Detection of Formate, Rather than Carbon Monoxide, As the Stoichiometric Coproduct in Conversion of Fatty Aldehydes to Alkanes by a Cyanobacterial Aldehyde Decarbonylase

(2011) Douglas M. Warui et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for α-farnesene production

(2011) Chonglong Wang et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Targeted proteomics for metabolic pathway optimization: Application to terpene production

(2011) Alyssa M. Redding-Johanson et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Engineering microbial biofuel tolerance and export using efflux pumps

(2011) M. J. Dunlop et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Engineered reversal of the β-oxidation cycle for the synthesis of fuels and chemicals

(2011) Clementina Dellomonaco et al.   NATURE

De novo Biosynthesis of Biodiesel by Escherichia coli in Optimized Fed-Batch Cultivation

(2011) Yangkai Duan et al.   PLoS One

Microbial production of farnesol (FOH): Current states and beyond

(2011) Chonglong Wang et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

Identification and microbial production of a terpene-based advanced biofuel

(2011) Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya et al.   Nature Communications

Structure, Function, and Insights into the Biosynthesis of a Head-to-Head Hydrocarbon in Shewanella oneidensis Strain MR-1

(2010) D. J. Sukovich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Widespread Head-to-Head Hydrocarbon Biosynthesis in Bacteria and Role of OleA

(2010) D. J. Sukovich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Enzymes of the mevalonate pathway of isoprenoid biosynthesis

(2010) Henry M. Miziorko   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Application and engineering of fatty acid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli for advanced fuels and chemicals

(2010) Paul Handke et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Microbial production of fatty-acid-derived fuels and chemicals from plant biomass

(2010) Eric J. Steen et al.   NATURE

Isoprenoid Pathway Optimization for Taxol Precursor Overproduction in Escherichia coli

(2010) P. K. Ajikumar et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes

(2010) A. Schirmer et al.   SCIENCE

Genes Involved in Long-Chain Alkene Biosynthesis in Micrococcus luteus

(2009) H. R. Beller et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pentanol isomer synthesis in engineered microorganisms

(2009) Anthony F. Cann et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

New microbial fuels: a biotech perspective

(2009) Mathew A Rude et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

High-Density Renewable Fuels Based on the Selective Dimerization of Pinenes

(2009) Benjamin G. Harvey et al.   ENERGY & FUELS

Hydrogenated monoterpenes as diesel fuel additives

(2009) Noah I. Tracy et al.   FUEL

Polyketide Decarboxylative Chain Termination Preceded byO-Sulfonation in Curacin A Biosynthesis

(2009) Liangcai Gu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Programming cells by multiplex genome engineering and accelerated evolution

(2009) Harris H. Wang et al.   NATURE

Monoterpene and sesquiterpene synthases and the origin of terpene skeletal diversity in plants

(2009) Jörg Degenhardt et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Identification and Characterization ofEscherichia coliThioesterase III That Functions in Fatty Acid β-Oxidation†

(2008) Lina Nie et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Specific Partial Reduction of Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate by an Enzyme from the Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Yields a Reactive Prenyl Donor, Not a Dead-End Product

(2008) S. Sato et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Non-fermentative pathways for synthesis of branched-chain higher alcohols as biofuels

(2008) Shota Atsumi et al.   NATURE