Metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for production of fatty acid ethyl esters, an advanced biofuel, by eliminating non-essential fatty acid utilization pathways

Applied Energy

Volumn 115, Issue , 2014, Pages 226-232

  Valle Rodríguez, Juan Octavio ^a   Shi, Shuobo ^a,b   Siewers, Verena ^a   Nielsen, Jens ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Advanced biofuel; Biodiesel; Metabolic engineering; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Steryl esters; Triacylglycerols

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODIESEL; CRUDE OIL PRICE; ESTERS; GASOLINE; GLYCEROL; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; YEAST;

ADVANCED BIOFUELS; BIODIESEL PRODUCTION; FATTY ACID ETHYL ESTER; MICROBIAL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM BASED PRODUCTS; PRODUCTION PROCESS; STERYL ESTERS; TRIACYLGLYCEROLS;

FATTY ACIDS;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOFUEL; ESTER; FATTY ACID; OXIDATION; PETROLEUM; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84888393717     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.10.003     Document Type: Article

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