Biorefineries for the production of top building block chemicals and their derivatives

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue , 2015, Pages 223-239

  Choi, Sol ^a   Song, Chan Woo ^a   Shin, Jae Ho ^a   Lee, Sang Yup ^a,b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biorefinery; Commercialization; DOE report; Platform chemicals

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCONVERSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; REFINING;

3-HYDROXYPROPIONIC ACID; BIOREFINERIES; BIOREFINERY DEVELOPMENT; COMMERCIALIZATION; DOE REPORT; PETROCHEMICAL RESOURCES; PLATFORM CHEMICALS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES;

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS;

2,5 FURAN DICARBOXYLIC ACID; 3 HYDROXYBUTYROLACTONE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOHYDROCARBON; BUTYROLACTONE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DICARBOXYLIC ACID; DICARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FURAN DERIVATIVE; FURFURAL; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCEROL; HYDRACRYLIC ACID; HYDROCARBON; ITACONIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; LEVULINIC ACID; PETROLEUM; SACCHARIC ACID; SORBITOL; SUCCINIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLITOL;

BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOREFINERY PROCESS; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON SOURCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHORT SURVEY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BIOSYNTHESIS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

LACTIC ACID; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; SUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 84923809316     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2014.12.007     Document Type: Review

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