Cellulase, Clostridia, and Ethanol

By A. Demain, M. Newcomb, J. Wu. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, 2005

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Economic Analysis of Cellulase Production Methods for Bio-Ethanol (2007, background): “In particular, Clostridium thermocellum appeared promising since this organism produces a considerable amount of cellulase (Demain et al., 2005).”
Improving Enzymes for Biomass Conversion: A Basic Research Perspective (2010, background): “The biochemistry and chemistry of plant lignocellulosic materials and of the microbial enzymes that depolymerize them has been frequently reviewed [12, 40, 58].”
Outlook for cellulase improvement: screening and selection strategies. (2006, background): “The lack of efficient exoglucanase plate screening method explains some of the difficulty in detecting exoglucanase genes cloned from C. thermocellum (Demain et al., 2005).”
Hemicelluloses for fuel ethanol: A review. (2010, neutral): “anaerobic bacteria Clostridium thermocellum (Demain et al., 2005).”
Polysaccharide utilization by gut bacteria: potential for new insights from genomic analysis (2008, background): “For example, isolated gut bacteria could potentially be used for the anaerobic fermentation of lignocellulosic material, to produce ethanol, succinate, methane or hydrogen as energy sources or chemical feedstock”