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Table 1 Acetoin production in several approaches

From: Electrode-assisted acetoin production in a metabolically engineered Escherichia coli strain

Substrate

Yield (%)

Conditions

Complex compounds

Reference

E. coli

 Glucose

90

Anoxic, NO3

 

This study

 Diacetyl/glucose

88

Oxic

LB

[53]

 Glucose

80

Oxic

Yeast extract

[17]

 Glucose

96

Oxic

LB

[51]

 Glucose

49

Oxic

LB

[54]

S. oneidensis

 Lactate

86

Anoxic, fumarate

 

[29]

B. subtilis

 Glucose/xylose

75

Oxic

 

[52]

 Wood hydrolysate

69.5

Oxic

 

[22]

 Glucose

83.5

Oxic

Beef extract

[55]