Enhanced solvent production by metabolic engineering of a twin-clostridial consortium

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue , 2017, Pages 38-48

  Wen, Zhiqiang ^a   Minton, Nigel P ^b   Zhang, Ying ^b   Li, Qi ^a,c   Liu, Jinle ^a,c   Jiang, Yu ^a,d   Yang, Sheng ^a,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Shanghai Research and Development Center of Industrial Biotechnology   (China)

^e Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials   (China)

Author keywords

Acetone butanol ethanol fermentation; Consolidated bioprocessing; Genetic system; Modular metabolic engineering; Twin clostridia consortium

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; CARBON; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENZYMES; ETHANOL; FEEDSTOCKS; FERMENTATION; GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; METABOLISM; SOLVENTS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ACETONE BUTANOL ETHANOLS; ACETONE-BUTANOL-ETHANOL FERMENTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOVORANS; CONSOLIDATED BIO-PROCESSING; GENETIC SYSTEMS; LIGNOCELLULOSIC FEEDSTOCKS; TWIN-CLOSTRIDIA CONSORTIUM;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; ALKALI; BUTANOL; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; HYDROGENASE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PENTOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SOLVENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BATCH FERMENTATION; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; CLOSTRIDIUM CELLULOVORANS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MAIZE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BUTANOLS; CLOSTRIDIUM; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; SOLVENTS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85006141763     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: 10967184     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2016.10.013     Document Type: Article

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