Boosting autofermentation rates and product yields with sodium stress cycling: Application to production of renewable fuels by cyanobacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6455-6462

  Carrieri, Damian ^d   Momot, Dariya ^a   Brasg, Ian A ^a   Ananyev, Gennady ^e   Lenz, Oliver ^a,b   Bryant, Donald A ^c   Dismukes, G Charles ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; ACETYL-COA; AEROBIC CONDITION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTHROSPIRA; CARBON FIXATION; CARBON STORAGE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRY WEIGHT; INTRACELLULAR ACCUMULATION; NEW STRATEGY; PRODUCT YIELDS; RE-OXIDATION; RENEWABLE FUELS; SALT CONCENTRATION; SALT TOLERANT; SOLUBLE CARBOHYDRATES; SPIRULINA; STRESS CYCLING;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATES; ETHANOL; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CELL CULTURE;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL; FORMIC ACID; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; SODIUM;

ACETATE; CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON FIXATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CATABOLISM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERMENTATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESPIRATION; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FERMENTATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIRULINA;

ACETATES; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CULTURE MEDIA; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; FORMIC ACIDS; HYDROGEN; NAD; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SODIUM; SPIRULINA;

ARTHROSPIRA MAXIMA; CYANOBACTERIA; SPIRULINA;

EID: 78049298617     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00975-10     Document Type: Article

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