Fuelling the future: microbial engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels

Overview of current development in electrical energy storage technologies and the application potential in power system operation

(2015) Xing Luo et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

Cost evaluation of cellulase enzyme for industrial-scale cellulosic ethanol production based on rigorous Aspen Plus modeling

(2015) Gang Liu et al.   BIOPROCESS AND BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Elimination of hydrogenase active site assembly blocks H2 production and increases ethanol yield in Clostridium thermocellum

(2015) Ranjita Biswas et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Deletion ofnfnABin Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum and Its Effect on Metabolism

(2015) Jonathan Lo et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Elimination of metabolic pathways to all traditional fermentation products increases ethanol yields in Clostridium thermocellum

(2015) Beth Papanek et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Consolidated bioprocessing of cellulose to isobutanol using Clostridium thermocellum

(2015) Paul P. Lin et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Multiplex metabolic pathway engineering using CRISPR/Cas9 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2015) Tadas Jakočiūnas et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Metabolic engineering in methanotrophic bacteria

(2015) Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Aromatic catabolic pathway selection for optimal production of pyruvate and lactate from lignin

(2015) Christopher W. Johnson et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Engineering lipid overproduction in the oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

(2015) Kangjian Qiao et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Structure of the key species in the enzymatic oxidation of methane to methanol

(2015) Rahul Banerjee et al.   NATURE

N2gas is an effective fertilizer for bioethanol production byZymomonas mobilis

(2015) Timothy A. Kremer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Efficient solar-to-fuels production from a hybrid microbial–water-splitting catalyst system

(2015) Joseph P. Torella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria for the synthesis of commodity products

(2015) S. Andreas Angermayr et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

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

Isopropanol production with engineered Cupriavidus necator as bioproduction platform

(2014) Estelle Grousseau et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Isobutanol production from cellobiose in Escherichia coli

(2014) Shuchi H. Desai et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Improving xylose utilization by recombinant Zymomonas mobilis strain 8b through adaptation using 2-deoxyglucose

(2014) Ali Mohagheghi et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Production of Butyric Acid

(2014) Mukesh Saini et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

A biosynthetic pathway for hexanoic acid production in Kluyveromyces marxianus

(2014) Yuna Cheon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

MEP pathway-mediated isopentenol production in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli

(2014) Huaiwei Liu et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Fermentative production of short-chain fatty acids in Escherichia coli

(2014) A. R. Volker et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Methane fluxes show consistent temperature dependence across microbial to ecosystem scales

(2014) Gabriel Yvon-Durocher et al.   NATURE

Expanding ester biosynthesis in Escherichia coli

(2014) Gabriel M Rodriguez et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Autotrophy at the thermodynamic limit of life: a model for energy conservation in acetogenic bacteria

(2014) Kai Schuchmann et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Direct conversion of plant biomass to ethanol by engineered Caldicellulosiruptor bescii

(2014) D. Chung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Engineering of yeast hexose transporters to transport D-xylose without inhibition by D-glucose

(2014) A. Farwick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Building carbon–carbon bonds using a biocatalytic methanol condensation cycle

(2014) Igor W. Bogorad et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lignin Valorization: Improving Lignin Processing in the Biorefinery

(2014) A. J. Ragauskas et al.   SCIENCE

Envisioning the Bioconversion of Methane to Liquid Fuels

(2014) R. J. Conrado et al.   SCIENCE

Altered sterol composition renders yeast thermotolerant

(2014) L. Caspeta et al.   SCIENCE

Engineering alcohol tolerance in yeast

(2014) F. H. Lam et al.   SCIENCE

Engineering Terpene Biosynthesis in Streptomyces for Production of the Advanced Biofuel Precursor Bisabolene

(2014) Ryan M. Phelan et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Microbial Synthesis of Pinene

(2014) Stephen Sarria et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Clean Fractionation Pretreatment Reduces Enzyme Loadings for Biomass Saccharification and Reveals the Mechanism of Free and Cellulosomal Enzyme Synergy

(2014) Michael G. Resch et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Atypical Glycolysis in Clostridium thermocellum

(2013) Jilai Zhou et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The damaging effects of short chain fatty acids on Escherichia coli membranes

(2013) Liam A. Royce et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Engineered thermostable fungal Cel6A and Cel7A cellobiohydrolases hydrolyze cellulose efficiently at elevated temperatures

(2013) Indira Wu et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Advances in microalgae engineering and synthetic biology applications for biofuel production

(2013) Javier A Gimpel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Oxygen-tolerant coenzyme A-acylating aldehyde dehydrogenase facilitates efficient photosynthetic n-butanol biosynthesis in cyanobacteria

(2013) Ethan I. Lan et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Fungal cellulases and complexed cellulosomal enzymes exhibit synergistic mechanisms in cellulose deconstruction

(2013) Michael G. Resch et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Advanced biofuels: Future perspectives from an expert elicitation survey

(2013) Giulia Fiorese et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Life Cycle Assessment of a Lithium-Ion Battery Vehicle Pack

(2013) Linda Ager-Wick Ellingsen et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for limonene and perillyl alcohol production

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

A reverse glyoxylate shunt to build a non-native route from C4 to C2 in Escherichia coli

(2013) Samuel E. Mainguet et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Synergy as design principle for metabolic engineering of 1-propanol production in Escherichia coli

(2013) Claire R. Shen et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Increased isobutanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by eliminating competing pathways and resolving cofactor imbalance

(2013) Fumio Matsuda et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

Synthetic non-oxidative glycolysis enables complete carbon conservation

(2013) Igor W. Bogorad et al.   NATURE

Microbial production of short-chain alkanes

(2013) Yong Jun Choi et al.   NATURE

Tailored fatty acid synthesis via dynamic control of fatty acid elongation

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

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

Exploiting microbial hyperthermophilicity to produce an industrial chemical, using hydrogen and carbon dioxide

(2013) M. W. Keller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Liquid fuels, hydrogen and chemicals from lignin: A critical review

(2013) Pooya Azadi et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Revealing Nature's Cellulase Diversity: The Digestion Mechanism of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii CelA

(2013) R. Brunecky et al.   SCIENCE

Highly efficient methane biocatalysis revealed in a methanotrophic bacterium

(2013) M. G. Kalyuzhnaya et al.   Nature Communications

Biomass gasification for synthesis gas production and applications of the syngas

(2013) Reinhard Rauch et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Energy and Environment

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

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

Energy conservation via electron bifurcating ferredoxin reduction and proton/Na+ translocating ferredoxin oxidation

(2012) Wolfgang Buckel et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Methane production from solid-state anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass

(2012) Lo Niee Liew et al.   BIOMASS & BIOENERGY

Architecture and active site of particulate methane monooxygenase

(2012) Megen A. Culpepper et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Electrical energy storage for transportation—approaching the limits of, and going beyond, lithium-ion batteries

(2012) Michael M. Thackeray et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Three Acyltransferases and Nitrogen-responsive Regulator Are Implicated in Nitrogen Starvation-induced Triacylglycerol Accumulation inChlamydomonas

(2012) Nanette R. Boyle et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Engineering the push and pull of lipid biosynthesis in oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for biofuel production

(2012) Mitchell Tai et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Integration of chemical catalysis with extractive fermentation to produce fuels

(2012) Pazhamalai Anbarasan 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

Controlled biosynthesis of odd-chain fuels and chemicals via engineered modular metabolic pathways

(2012) H.-C. Tseng 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

Application of Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis in Biomass to Liquid Conversion

(2012) Jin Hu et al.   Catalysts

Enhanced Microbial Utilization of Recalcitrant Cellulose by anEx VivoCellulosome-Microbe Complex

(2011) Chun You et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Electrosynthesis of Organic Compounds from Carbon Dioxide Is Catalyzed by a Diversity of Acetogenic Microorganisms

(2011) Kelly P. Nevin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Use of Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics To Distinguish the Secreted Cellulolytic Systems of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii and Caldicellulosiruptor obsidiansis

(2011) Adriane Lochner et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Enhancing Isoprene Production by Genetic Modification of the 1-Deoxy-d-Xylulose-5-Phosphate Pathway inBacillus subtilis

(2011) Junfeng Xue et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Engineering Bacillus subtilis for isobutanol production by heterologous Ehrlich pathway construction and the biosynthetic 2-ketoisovalerate precursor pathway overexpression

(2011) Shanshan Li et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The challenge of enzyme cost in the production of lignocellulosic biofuels

(2011) Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

RNA-Mediated Silencing in Algae: Biological Roles and Tools for Analysis of Gene Function

(2011) Heriberto Cerutti et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Engineered ketol-acid reductoisomerase and alcohol dehydrogenase enable anaerobic 2-methylpropan-1-ol production at theoretical yield in Escherichia coli

(2011) Sabine Bastian et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Metabolic pathway engineering based on metabolomics confers acetic and formic acid tolerance to a recombinant xylose-fermenting strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

(2011) Tomohisa Hasunuma et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

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

(2011) Clementina Dellomonaco et al.   NATURE

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

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

Microbial degradation of aromatic compounds — from one strategy to four

(2011) Georg Fuchs et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Insights into plant biomass conversion from the genome of the anaerobic thermophilic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii DSM 6725

(2011) Phuongan Dam et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Microbial production of isoprenoids

(2011) Sunil S. Chandran et al.   PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY

Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement

(2011) R. E. Blankenship et al.   SCIENCE

Alternatives to Trichoderma reesei in biofuel production

(2011) Alexander V. Gusakov   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Identification and microbial production of a terpene-based advanced biofuel

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

How half a century of research was required to understand bacterial growth on C1 and C2 compounds; the story of the serine cycle and the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway

(2011) Christopher Anthony   SCIENCE PROGRESS

Cultivation, photobioreactor design and harvesting of microalgae for biodiesel production: A critical review

(2010) Chun-Yen Chen et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

Farnesol production from Escherichia coli by harnessing the exogenous mevalonate pathway

(2010) Chonglong Wang et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Improvement of isopropanol production by metabolically engineered Escherichia coli using gas stripping

(2010) Kentaro Inokuma et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

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

(2010) Paul Handke et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Cocktail δ-integration: a novel method to construct cellulolytic enzyme expression ratio-optimized yeast strains

(2010) Ryosuke Yamada et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

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

(2010) Eric J. Steen et al.   NATURE

Efficient screening of fungal cellobiohydrolase class I enzymes for thermostabilizing sequence blocks by SCHEMA structure-guided recombination

(2010) Pete Heinzelman et al.   PROTEIN ENGINEERING DESIGN & SELECTION

Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

(2010) C. Beer et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial Biosynthesis of Alkanes

(2010) A. Schirmer et al.   SCIENCE

Waste to bioproduct conversion with undefined mixed cultures: the carboxylate platform

(2010) Matthew T. Agler et al.   TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microbial Electrosynthesis: Feeding Microbes Electricity To Convert Carbon Dioxide and Water to Multicarbon Extracellular Organic Compounds

(2010) K. P. Nevin et al.   mBio

Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential

(2010) Michael Hannon et al.   Biofuels-UK

Functional Assembly of Minicellulosomes on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cell Surface for Cellulose Hydrolysis and Ethanol Production

(2009) S.-L. Tsai et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Carboxylate Platform: The MixAlco Process Part 1: Comparison of Three Biomass Conversion Platforms

(2009) Mark T. Holtzapple et al.   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Lessons from the cow: What the ruminant animal can teach us about consolidated bioprocessing of cellulosic biomass

(2009) Paul J. Weimer et al.   BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY

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

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

Methods for Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Efficient Hydrolysis and Biofuel Production

(2009) Parveen Kumar et al.   INDUSTRIAL & ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY RESEARCH

Engineering alternative butanol production platforms in heterologous bacteria

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

Engineering a platform for photosynthetic isoprene production in cyanobacteria, using Synechocystis as the model organism

(2009) Pia Lindberg et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Yarrowia lipolytica as a model for bio-oil production

(2009) Athanasios Beopoulos et al.   PROGRESS IN LIPID RESEARCH

Fixing a Critical Climate Accounting Error

(2009) T. D. Searchinger et al.   SCIENCE

The Ehrlich Pathway for Fusel Alcohol Production: a Century of Research on Saccharomyces cerevisiae Metabolism

(2008) L. A. Hazelwood et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microalgae for oil: Strain selection, induction of lipid synthesis and outdoor mass cultivation in a low-cost photobioreactor

(2008) Liliana Rodolfi et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

What is the maximum efficiency with which photosynthesis can convert solar energy into biomass?

(2008) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Overproduction of free fatty acids in E. coli: Implications for biodiesel production

(2008) Xuefeng Lu et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

Optimization of the mevalonate-based isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway in Escherichia coli for production of the anti-malarial drug precursor amorpha-4,11-diene

(2008) Jennifer R. Anthony et al.   METABOLIC ENGINEERING

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

Genome sequencing and analysis of the biomass-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (syn. Hypocrea jecorina)

(2008) Diego Martinez et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

(2008) J. Fargione et al.   SCIENCE