Engineering Clostridium acetobutylicum for production of kerosene and diesel blendstock precursors

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 124-130

  Bormann, Sebastian ^a   Baer, Zachary C ^a   Sreekumar, Sanil ^a   Kuchenreuther, Jon M ^a   Dean Toste, F ^a,b   Blanch, Harvey W ^a   Clark, Douglas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiesel; Butanol; Clostridium acetobutylicum; Heterogeneous catalysis; Metabolic engineering; Solvent tolerance

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ALDEHYDES; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODIESEL; BUTENES; CATALYSIS; CHAIN LENGTH; CLOSTRIDIUM; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; KEROSENE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; PROTEINS; SOLVENTS;

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CATALYTIC UPGRADING; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; FERMENTATION PRODUCTS; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; SOLVENT PRODUCTION; SOLVENT TOLERANCE;

DIESEL ENGINES;

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BIODIESEL; BUTANOL; BUTANOL DEHYDROGENASE; CARBON; CHAPERONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; KEROSENE; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOFUEL; GASOLINE;

ALKYLATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS PSYCHROSACCHAROLYTICUS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOMASS FERMENTATION; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CATALYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; CLOSTRIDIUM LJUNGDHALII; CONTROLLED STUDY; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WILD TYPE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFUELS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; GASOLINE; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; KEROSENE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84905395753     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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