Microbial engineering for the production of advanced biofuels

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

(2012) Fuzhong Zhang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Production of amorphadiene in yeast, and its conversion to dihydroartemisinic acid, precursor to the antimalarial agent artemisinin

(2012) P. J. Westfall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ATP drives direct photosynthetic production of 1-butanol in cyanobacteria

(2012) E. I. Lan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Integrated Electromicrobial Conversion of CO2 to Higher Alcohols

(2012) H. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Driving Forces Enable High-Titer Anaerobic 1-Butanol Synthesis in Escherichia coli

(2011) Claire R. Shen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Characterization of a Feedback-Resistant Mevalonate Kinase from the Archaeon Methanosarcina mazei

(2011) Yuliya A. Primak et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium cellulolyticum for Production of Isobutanol from Cellulose

(2011) Wendy Higashide 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

Continuous butanol production with reduced byproducts formation from glycerol by a hyper producing mutant of Clostridium pasteurianum

(2011) Alok Malaviya et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Increased isobutanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by overexpression of genes in valine metabolism

(2011) Xiao Chen et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum: recent advances to improve butanol production

(2011) Tina Lütke-Eversloh et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Photosynthesis driven conversion of carbon dioxide to fatty alcohols and hydrocarbons in cyanobacteria

(2011) Xiaoming Tan et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Targeted proteomics for metabolic pathway optimization: Application to terpene production

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

Applications of genetically-encoded biosensors for the construction and control of biosynthetic pathways

(2011) Joshua K. Michener 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

Synergies between synthetic biology and metabolic engineering

(2011) Jens Nielsen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Conversion of proteins into biofuels by engineering nitrogen flux

(2011) Yi-Xin Huo et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Enzyme mechanism as a kinetic control element for designing synthetic biofuel pathways

(2011) Brooks B Bond-Watts et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

In vitro reconstitution and steady-state analysis of the fatty acid synthase from Escherichia coli

(2011) X. Yu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synthesis of three advanced biofuels from ionic liquid-pretreated switchgrass using engineered Escherichia coli

(2011) G. Bokinsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structure of a Three-Domain Sesquiterpene Synthase: A Prospective Target for Advanced Biofuels Production

(2011) Ryan P. McAndrew et al.   STRUCTURE

Identification and microbial production of a terpene-based advanced biofuel

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

BglBrick vectors and datasheets: A synthetic biology platform for gene expression

(2011) Taek Lee et al.   Journal of Biological Engineering

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

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

Construction of a butyrate-producing E. coli strain without the use of heterologous genes

(2010) T. A. Seregina et al.   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY

Engineering Corynebacterium glutamicum for isobutanol production

(2010) Kevin Michael Smith et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Reconstructing the clostridial n-butanol metabolic pathway in Lactobacillus brevis

(2010) Oksana V. Berezina et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

A process for microbial hydrocarbon synthesis: Overproduction of fatty acids inEscherichia coliand catalytic conversion to alkanes

(2010) Rebecca M. Lennen et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Advanced biofuel production in microbes

(2010) Pamela P. Peralta-Yahya et al.   Biotechnology Journal

Engineering Static and Dynamic Control of Synthetic Pathways

(2010) William J. Holtz et al.   CELL

Quantitative analysis and engineering of fatty acid biosynthesis in E. coli

(2010) Tiangang Liu et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

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

Combining metabolic and protein engineering of a terpenoid biosynthetic pathway for overproduction and selectivity control

(2010) E. Leonard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Clostridium ljungdahlii represents a microbial production platform based on syngas

(2010) M. Kopke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Manufacturing Molecules Through Metabolic Engineering

(2010) J. D. Keasling   SCIENCE

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

Biosynthesis of Plant Isoprenoids: Perspectives for Microbial Engineering

(2009) James Kirby et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Genes Involved in Long-Chain Alkene Biosynthesis in Micrococcus luteus

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

Achievements and perspectives to overcome the poor solvent resistance in acetone and butanol-producing microorganisms

(2009) Thaddeus Ezeji et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Directed enzyme evolution: climbing fitness peaks one amino acid at a time

(2009) Cara A Tracewell et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

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

Engineering metabolic systems for production of advanced fuels

(2009) Yajun Yan et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Enhancing sesquiterpene production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through in silico driven metabolic engineering

(2009) Mohammad A. Asadollahi et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Engineering alternative butanol production platforms in heterologous bacteria

(2009) David R. Nielsen et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Direct photosynthetic recycling of carbon dioxide to isobutyraldehyde

(2009) Shota Atsumi et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Synthetic protein scaffolds provide modular control over metabolic flux

(2009) John E Dueber et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Stabilized gene duplication enables long-term selection-free heterologous pathway expression

(2009) Keith E J Tyo et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Automated design of synthetic ribosome binding sites to control protein expression

(2009) Howard M Salis et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

A tale of two functions: enzymatic activity and translational repression by carboxyltransferase

(2009) Glen Meades et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

High-Level Production of Amorpha-4,11-Diene, a Precursor of the Antimalarial Agent Artemisinin, in Escherichia coli

(2009) Hiroko Tsuruta et al.   PLoS One

Biodiesel and renewable diesel: A comparison

(2009) Gerhard Knothe   PROGRESS IN ENERGY AND COMBUSTION SCIENCE

Fermentative butanol production by clostridia

(2008) Sang Yup Lee et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for biofuels production: from bugs to synthetic biology to fuels

(2008) Sung Kuk Lee et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the production of n-butanol

(2008) Eric J Steen et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

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

(2008) Shota Atsumi et al.   NATURE

Biofuel alternatives to ethanol: pumping the microbial well

(2008) J.L. Fortman et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for 1-butanol production

(2007) Shota Atsumi et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING