The emergence of Clostridium thermocellum as a high utility candidate for consolidated bioprocessing applications

Frontiers in Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Akinosho, Hannah ^a,b   Yee, Kelsey ^b   Close, Dan ^b   Ragauskas, Arthur ^b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass utilization; Cellulosic ethanol; Cellulosome; Clostridium thermocellum; Consolidated bioprocessing; Omics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987623323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2014.00066     Document Type: Review

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