Fuel ethanol production from lignocellulose: a challenge for metabolic engineering and process integration

By J. Zaldivar, J. Nielsen, L. Olsson. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2001

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Inhibition of ethanol-producing yeast and bacteria by degradation products produced during pre-treatment of biomass (2004, background): “coli obtained a 85% ethanol yield from detoxified steam pre-treated pine hemicellulose sugars (Zaldivar et al. 2001).”
Progress in Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (2008, background): “These substances fall into the following classes: carboxylic acids, furans, phenolic compounds, and inorganic salts (397).”
Bacteria engineered for fuel ethanol production: current status (2003, methodology): “The characteristics required for an industrially suitable microorganism have been cited previously (Bothast et al. 1999; Zaldivar et al. 2001) and are summarized in Table 1.”
Acid-based hydrolysis processes for ethanol from lignocellulosic materials: A review (2007, background): “For example, the genes for xylose isomerase, xylulokinase, transketolase, and transladolase were inserted into bacteria Zymomonas mobilis, which resulted in an organism producing ethanol from xylose (Zhang et al. 1995).”
Engineering cellulolytic ability into bioprocessing organisms (2010, background): “Furthermore, characteristics such as the ability to simultaneously utilize sugars, GRAS status, minimal nutrient supplementation, and tolerance of low pH and high temperature would also be desirable in a CBP organism (Van Zyl et al. 2007; Zaldivar et al. 2001).”
Potential of apple pomace as a solid substrate for fungal cellulase and hemicellulase bioproduction through solid-state fermentation (2012, background): “The growing oncerns about the potential consequences of worldwide depleion of fossil fuels, emission of green house gases resulting from the ncomplete combustion of fossil fuel has caused an increased focus n the production of biofuels, such as bioethanol from lignocelluosic wastes (Zaldivar et al.,”
Ethanol fermentation from biomass resources: current state and prospects (2006, background): “With the inevitable depletion of the world’s energy supply, there has been an increasing worldwide interest in alternative sources of energy (Aristidou and Penttila 2000; Jeffries and Jin 2000; John 2004; Kerr 1998; Wheals et al. 1999; Zaldivar et al. 2001).”
An overview of mannan structure and mannan-degrading enzyme systems (2008, background): “To have an efficient fermentation of lignocellulose substrates, the development of microorganism strains with a broad substrate utilization range, capability of degrading lignocelulose and utilizing sugars simultaneously, minimal nutrients requirement, and growth at low pH and high temperature are n”