Engineering Zymomonas mobilis for Robust Cellulosic Ethanol Production

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2019, Pages 960-972

  Xia, Juan ^a   Yang, Yongfu ^b   Liu, Chen Guang ^a   Yang, Shihui ^b   Bai, Feng Wu ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cellulosic ethanol production; lignocellulosic biomass; pentose metabolism; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; self flocculation of microbial cells; Zymomonas mobilis

Indexed keywords

BIOETHANOL; CELL ENGINEERING; ETHANOL; FLOCCULATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; METABOLISM; OSTWALD RIPENING; PHYSIOLOGY; YEAST;

BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; GENOME SEQUENCES; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; MICROBIAL CELLS; OXIDO-REDUCTASES; PENTOSE METABOLISMS; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

CELLULOSIC ETHANOL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ISOMERASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PENTOSE; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLITOL DEHYDROGENASE; XYLOSE REDUCTASE; ALCOHOL; CELLULOSE;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CONTINUOUS FERMENTATION; FERMENTATION; FLOCCULATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMOBILIZED CELL; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PENTOSE PHOSPHATE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEADY STATE; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; ZYMOMONAS;

CELLULOSE; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; ZYMOMONAS;

EID: 85062720442     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: 18793096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2019.02.002     Document Type: Review

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