Metabolic engineering of Clostridium tyrobutyricum for n-butanol production through co-utilization of glucose and xylose

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2134-2141

  Yu, Le ^a   Xu, Mengmeng ^a   Tang, I Ching ^b   Yang, Shang Tian ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Bioprocessing Innovative Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Butanol; Carbon catabolite repression; Clostridium tyrobutyricum; Metabolic engineering; Soybean hull hydrolysate; Xylose

Indexed keywords

BUTENES; CARBON; CLOSTRIDIUM; GLUCOSE; METABOLISM; PRODUCTIVITY; XYLOSE;

CARBON CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; CO-UTILIZATION; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; SOYBEAN HULL; XYLOSE ISOMERASE; XYLOSE UTILIZATIONS;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BUTANOL; CARBON; GLUCOSE; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; SOYBEAN HULL HYDROLYSATE; SOYBEAN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLOSE; XYLOSE ISOMERASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BATCH FERMENTATION; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT SYSTEM; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; XYLA GENE; XYLB GENE; XYLOSE UTILIZATION; XYLT GENE; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SOYBEAN;

CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM ATCC 824; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; GLYCINE MAX;

1-BUTANOL; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM TYROBUTYRICUM; FERMENTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOYBEANS; XYLOSE;

EID: 84940467231     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25613     Document Type: Article

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