Production of an acetone-butanol-ethanol mixture from Clostridium acetobutylicum and its conversion to high-value biofuels

Nature Protocols

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 528-537

  Sreekumar, Sanil ^a,b   Baer, Zachary C ^b   Pazhamalai, Anbarasan ^a,b   Gunbas, Gorkem ^a,b   Grippo, Adam ^a,b   Blanch, Harvey W ^b   Clark, Douglas S ^b   Toste, F Dean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; BIOFUEL; BUTANOL; GLUCOSE; HYDROTALCITE; KETONE; PALLADIUM; SUGAR; ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOREACTOR; CATALYSIS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; DISTILLATION; FED BATCH FERMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST; BIOSYNTHESIS; FERMENTATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM;

ACETONE; ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; BIOFUELS; BIOREACTORS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BUTANOLS; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; KETONES; MAGNESIUM HYDROXIDE; PALLADIUM;

EID: 84923820339     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2015.029     Document Type: Article

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