Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for higher alcohols production: An environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 77, Issue , 2017, Pages 580-589

  Gonçalves, Ana L ^a   Simões, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Escherichia coli; Fermentative pathway; Higher alcohols; Keto acid pathway; Metabolic engineering

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL ADDITIVES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; METABOLISM; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; YEAST;

1-BUTANOL; ALTERNATIVE TO FOSSIL FUELS; ENERGY SOURCE; ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVES; FERMENTATIVE PATHWAY; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; HIGHER ALCOHOLS; KETO ACID PATHWAY; KETO ACIDS; PROPERTY;

METABOLIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 85018628231     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2017.04.047     Document Type: Review

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