Light/dark cycling is an inevitable outdoor culture condition for microalgal biofuel production; however, the influence of this cycling on cellular lipid production has not been clearly established. The genera...
Authors: Yuichi Kato, Yusuke Fujihara, Christopher J. Vavricka, Jo-Shu Chang, Tomohisa Hasunuma and Akihiko Kondo
Translational regulation played an important role in the correct folding of heterologous proteins to form bioactive conformations during biogenesis. Translational pausing coordinates protein translation and co...
Authors: Xihao Liao, Jing Zhao, Shuli Liang, Jingjie Jin, Cheng Li, Ruiming Xiao, Lu Li, Meijin Guo, Gong Zhang and Ying Lin
Lignocellulosic biomass is considered as a potential source for sustainable biofuels. In the conversion process, a pretreatment step is necessary in order to overcome the biomass recalcitrance and allow for s...
Authors: Christoph-Maximilian Seidel, Simone Brethauer, László Gyenge, Philipp Rudolf von Rohr and Michael H. Studer
The filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei produces cellulase enzymes that are widely studied for lignocellulose bioconversion to biofuel. N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) is a versatile organic solvent used in large q...
Authors: Yumeng Chen, Chuan Wu, Yaling Shen, Yushu Ma, Dongzhi Wei and Wei Wang
The industrial conversion of biomass to high-value biofuels and biochemical is mainly restricted by lignocellulose solubilization. Consolidated bio-saccharification (CBS) is considered a promising process for ...
Authors: Shiyue Liu, Ya-Jun Liu, Yingang Feng, Bin Li and Qiu Cui
Enzymatic hydrolysis is a major step for cellulosic ethanol production. A thorough understanding of enzymatic hydrolysis is necessary to help design optimal conditions and economical systems. The original HCH-...
Authors: Chao Liang, Chao Gu, Jonathan Raftery, M. Nazmul Karim and Mark Holtzapple
This review presents a critical assessment of emerging microfluidic technologies for the application on biological productions of biofuels and other chemicals from microalgae. Comparisons of cell culture desig...
Authors: Pierre Bodénès, Hsiang-Yu Wang, Tsung-Hua Lee, Hung-Yu Chen and Chun-Yen Wang
Lignin is the most abundant aromatic substrate on Earth and its valorization technologies are still under developed. Depolymerization and fragmentation are the predominant preparatory strategies for valorizati...
Authors: Zhaoxian Xu, Peng Lei, Rui Zhai, Zhiqiang Wen and Mingjie Jin
Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium saccharobutylicum are Gram-positive, spore-forming, anaerobic bacterium capable of converting various sugars and polysaccharides into solvents (acetone, butanol, and eth...
Authors: Celine Foulquier, Ching-Ning Huang, Ngoc-Phuong-Thao Nguyen, Axel Thiel, Tom Wilding-Steel, Julie Soula, Minyeong Yoo, Armin Ehrenreich, Isabelle Meynial-Salles, Wolfgang Liebl and Philippe Soucaille
Biofilms with immobilized cells encased in extracellular polymeric substance are beneficial for industrial fermentation. Their formation is regulated by various factors, including nitric oxide (NO), which is r...
Bioprocessing offers a sustainable and green approach to manufacture various chemicals and materials. Development of bioprocesses requires transforming common producer strains to cell factories. 13C metabolic flu...
Authors: Ruilian Yao, Jiawei Li, Lei Feng, Xuehong Zhang and Hongbo Hu
The green alga Chlorella zofingiensis has been recognized as an industrially relevant strain because of its robust growth under multiple trophic conditions and the potential for simultaneous production of triacyl...
Authors: Xuemei Mao, Tao Wu, Yaping Kou, Ying Shi, Yu Zhang and Jin Liu
Microalgae are an important feedstock in industries. Currently, efforts are being made in the non-phototrophic cultivation of microalgae for biomass production. Studies have shown that mixotrophy is a more eff...
Authors: Xiaobin Wen, Huanping Tao, Xinan Peng, Zhongjie Wang, Yi Ding, Yan Xu, Lin Liang, Kui Du, Aoqi Zhang, Caixia Liu, Yahong Geng and Yeguang Li
Substrate spectra for anaerobic digestion have been broadened in the past decade, inter alia, due to the application of different pretreatment strategies and now include materials rich in lignocellulose, prote...
Authors: Andreas Otto Wagner, Eva Maria Prem, Rudolf Markt, Rüdiger Kaufmann and Paul Illmer
Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that the omission of author name.
Authors: Evert K. Holwerda, Robert S. Worthen, Ninad Kothari, Ronald C. Lasky, Brian H. Davison, Chunxiang Fu, Zeng-Yu Wang, Richard A. Dixon, Ajaya K. Biswal, Debra Mohnen, Richard S. Nelson, Holly L. Baxter, Mitra Mazarei, C. Neal Stewart Jr., Wellington Muchero, Gerald A. Tuskan…
Citation:Biotechnology for Biofuels
2019
12:25
Published on: 9 February 2019
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original article was published in Biotechnology for Biofuels
2019
12:15
The production of biohydrogen (H2) as a promising future fuel in anaerobic hyperthermophiles has attracted great attention because H2 formation is more thermodynamically feasible at elevated temperatures and fewe...
Authors: Seong Hyuk Lee, Min-Sik Kim, Sung Gyun Kang and Hyun Sook Lee
Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) can be used for energy recovery and sludge reduction in wastewater treatment. Electric current density, which represents the rate of wastewater treatment and H2 production, is ...
Due to its wide range of applications in the food, pharmaceutical and chemical fields, microbial synthesis of succinic acid is receiving growing attention, generating already relevant industrial results, as we...
Authors: Donatella Cimini, Lucio Zaccariello, Sergio D’Ambrosio, Licia Lama, Giovanna Ruoppolo, Olimpia Pepe, Vincenza Faraco and Chiara Schiraldi
Nannochloropsis oceanica belongs to a large group of photoautotrophic eukaryotic organisms that play important roles in fixation and cycling of atmospheric CO2. Its capability of storing solar energy and carbon d...
Authors: Chaoyun Chen, Andreas Harst, Wuxin You, Jian Xu, Kang Ning and Ansgar Poetsch
Xylose isomerase (XI) and xylose reductase/xylitol dehydrogenase (XR/XDH) pathways have been extensively used to confer xylose assimilation capacity to Saccharomyces cerevisiae and tackle one of the major bottlen...
Authors: Joana T. Cunha, Pedro O. Soares, Aloia Romaní, Johan M. Thevelein and Lucília Domingues
Recently, we showed that steady-state continuous cultures of S.stipitis follow the principles of growth on mixture of two complementary substrates. More precisely, when such cultures are fed with progressively h...
Among all organisms tested, Haematococcus pluvialis can accumulate the highest levels of natural astaxanthin. Nitrogen starvation and high irradiance promote the accumulation of starch, lipid, and astaxanthin in
Authors: Luodong Huang, Baoyan Gao, Manman Wu, Feifei Wang and Chengwu Zhang
Methanol has attracted increased attention as a non-food alternative carbon source to sugar for biological production of chemicals and fuels. Moreover, the high degree of reduction of methanol offers some adva...
Ricinoleic acid is a high-value hydroxy fatty acid with broad industrial applications. Hiptage benghalensis seed oil contains a high amount of ricinoleic acid (~ 80%) and represents an emerging source of this unu...
Authors: Bo Tian, Tianquan Lu, Yang Xu, Ruling Wang and Guanqun Chen
The recalcitrance of cellulosic biomass is widely recognized as a key barrier to cost-effective biological processing to fuels and chemicals, but the relative impacts of physical, chemical and genetic interven...
Authors: Evert K. Holwerda, Robert S. Worthen, Ninad Kothari, Ronald C. Lasky, Brian H. Davison, Chunxiang Fu, Zeng-Yu Wang, Richard A. Dixon, Ajaya K. Biswal, Debra Mohnen, Richard S. Nelson, Holly L. Baxter, Mitra Mazarei, C. Neal Stewart Jr., Wellington Muchero, Gerald A. Tuskan…
In the past few decades, microalgae biofuel has become one of the most interesting sources of renewable energy. However, the higher cost of microalgae biofuel compared to that of petroleum prevented microalgae...
Authors: Nannan Li, Yan Zhang, Hongjun Meng, Shengting Li, Shufeng Wang, Zhongchun Xiao, Peng Chang, Xiaohui Zhang, Qing Li, Liang Guo, Yasuo Igarashi and Feng Luo
The alginate oligosaccharides have been widely used in agriculture, medicine, and food industries due to their versatile physiological functions such as antioxidant, anticoagulant, and antineoplastic activitie...
Authors: Benwei Zhu, Fang Ni, Yun Sun, Limin Ning and Zhong Yao
Due to biomass recalcitrance, including complexity of lignocellulosic matrix, crystallinity of cellulose, and inhibition of lignin, the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass is difficult and inefficient. Th...
Authors: Yanjuan Zhang, Min Huang, Jianmei Su, Huayu Hu, Mei Yang, Zuqiang Huang, Dong Chen, Juan Wu and Zhenfei Feng
Genetic modification of plant cell walls has been implemented to reduce lignocellulosic recalcitrance for biofuel production. Plant glycoside hydrolase family 9 (GH9) comprises endo-β-1,4-glucanase in plants. ...
Authors: Jiangfeng Huang, Tao Xia, Guanhua Li, Xianliang Li, Ying Li, Yanting Wang, Youmei Wang, Yuanyuan Chen, Guosheng Xie, Feng-Wu Bai, Liangcai Peng and Lingqiang Wang
Cellulosic biofuels are sustainable compared to fossil fuels. However, inhibitors, such as acetic acid generated during lignocellulose pretreatment and hydrolysis, would significantly inhibit microbial ferment...
Authors: Bo Wu, Han Qin, Yiwei Yang, Guowei Duan, Shihui Yang, Fengxue Xin, Chunyan Zhao, Huanhuan Shao, Yanwei Wang, Qili Zhu, Furong Tan, Guoquan Hu and Mingxiong He
Soybean oil constitutes an important source of vegetable oil and biofuel. However, high temperature and humidity adversely impacts soybean seed development, yield, and quality during plant development and afte...
Authors: Gaoyang Zhang, Sung-Chul Bahn, Geliang Wang, Yanrui Zhang, Beibei Chen, Yuliang Zhang, Xuemin Wang and Jian Zhao
Cyanobacteria are potential sources for third generation biofuels. Their capacity for biofuel production has been widely improved using metabolically engineered strains. In this study, we employed metabolic en...
Authors: Kamonchanock Eungrasamee, Rui Miao, Aran Incharoensakdi, Peter Lindblad and Saowarath Jantaro
Raw-starch-digesting glucoamylases (RSDGs) from filamentous fungi have great commercial values in starch processing; however, the regulatory mechanisms associated with their production in filamentous fungi rem...
Authors: Mei-Yuan Zhang, Shuai Zhao, Yuan-Ni Ning, Li-Hao Fu, Cheng-Xi Li, Qi Wang, Ran You, Chen-Ying Wang, Han-Nan Xu, Xue-Mei Luo and Jia-Xun Feng
Based on our previous studies of 17 Prunus sibirica germplasms, one plus tree with high quality and quantity of seed oils has emerged as novel potential source of biodiesel. To better develop P. sibirica seed oil...
Authors: Jia Wang, Weijun Lin, Zhongdong Yin, Libing Wang, ShuBin Dong, Jiyong An, Zixin Lin, Haiyan Yu, Lingling Shi, Shanzhi Lin and Shaoliang Chen
With the increasing global population and increasing demand for food, the generation of food waste and animal manure increases. Anaerobic digestion is one of the best available technologies for food waste and ...
Authors: Yan Jiang, Conor Dennehy, Peadar G. Lawlor, Zhenhu Hu, Matthew McCabe, Paul Cormican, Xinmin Zhan and Gillian E. Gardiner
As a ubiquitous filamentous fungal, Aspergillus spp. play a critical role in lignocellulose degradation, which was also defined as considerable cell factories for organic acids and industrially relevant enzymes p...
Authors: Jiaxi Miao, Mengmeng Wang, Lei Ma, Tuo Li, Qiwei Huang, Dongyang Liu and Qirong Shen
To improve process economics for production of fuels and chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass, high solids concentrations are applied in enzymatic hydrolysis, to increase product concentration and reduce ene...
Authors: Noah D. Weiss, Claus Felby and Lisbeth G. Thygesen
Harnessing the halotolerant characteristics of microalgae provides a viable alternative for sustainable biomass and triacylglyceride (TAG) production. Scenedesmus sp. IITRIND2 is a fast growing fresh water microa...
Authors: Neha Arora, Poonam Kumari, Amit Kumar, Rashmi Gangwar, Khushboo Gulati, Parul A. Pruthi, Ramasare Prasad, Dinesh Kumar, Vikas Pruthi and Krishna Mohan Poluri
The forest biorefinery plays an important part in the evolving circular bioeconomy due to its capacity to produce a portfolio of bio-based and sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials. To tap into its true ...
Authors: Johanna Olsson, Vera Novy, Fredrik Nielsen, Ola Wallberg and Mats Galbe
Geranylgeranyl reductase (GGR) is a flavin-containing redox enzyme that hydrogenates a variety of unactivated polyprenyl substrates, which are further processed mostly for lipid biosynthesis in archaea or chlo...
Authors: Corey W. Meadows, Florence Mingardon, Brett M. Garabedian, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Veronica T. Benites, Andria V. Rodrigues, Raya Abourjeily, Angelique Chanal and Taek Soon Lee
Lignin is a recalcitrant aromatic polymer that is a potential feedstock for renewable fuel and chemical production. Rhodococcus opacus PD630 is a promising strain for the biological upgrading of lignin due to its...
Authors: William R. Henson, Fong-Fu Hsu, Gautam Dantas, Tae Seok Moon and Marcus Foston
The efficient depolymerization and utilization of lignin are one of the most important goals for the renewable use of lignocelluloses. The degradation and complete mineralization of lignin by bacteria represen...
Authors: Daochen Zhu, Haibing Si, Peipei Zhang, Alei Geng, Weimin Zhang, Bin Yang, Wei-Jun Qian, Murillo Gabriel and Jianzhong Sun
In the kraft-based dissolving pulp production process, pre-hydrolysis liquor (PHL) is produced, which contains hemicelluloses, lignin, furfural and acetic acid. PHL is currently burned in the recovery boiler o...
Authors: Jiachuan Chen, Jiran Dong, Guihua Yang, Ming He, Feng Xu and Pedram Fatehi
Ensiling cannot be utilized as a stand-alone pretreatment for sugar-based biorefinery processes but, in combination with hydrothermal processing, it can enhance pretreatment while ensuring a stable long-term s...
Camelina sativa has attracted much interest as alternative renewable resources for biodiesel, other oil-based industrial products and a source for edible oils. Its unique oil attributes attract research to engine...
Authors: Hesham M. Abdullah, Sudesh Chhikara, Parisa Akbari, Danny J. Schnell, Ashwani Pareek and Om Parkash Dhankher
High-throughput evaluation of lignocellulosic biomass feedstock quality is the key to the successful commercialization of bioethanol production. Currently, wet chemical methods for the determination of chemica...
Authors: Meng Li, Siyang He, Jun Wang, Zuxin Liu and Guang Hui Xie
Botryococcus braunii is known for its high hydrocarbon content, thus making it a strong candidate feedstock for biofuel production. Previous study has revealed that a high cobalt concentration can promote hydroca...
Authors: Pengfei Cheng, Chengxu Zhou, Yan Wang, Zhihui Xu, Jilin Xu, Dongqing Zhou, Yinghui Zhang, Haizhen Wu, Xuezhi Zhang, Tianzhong Liu, Ming Tang, Qiyong Yang, Xiaojun Yan and Jianhua Fan
Corn stover, as one important lignocellulosic material, has characteristics of low price, abundant output and easy availability. Using corn stover as carbon source in the fermentation of valuable organic chemi...
Authors: Yong Wang, Jinlong Liu, Di Cai and Guoqun Zhao
Camelina (Camelina sativa L.) is a promising oilseed crop that may provide sustainable feedstock for biofuel production. One of the major drawbacks of Camelina is its smaller seeds compared to other major oil cro...
Authors: GunNam Na, Niranjan Aryal, Abdelhak Fatihi, Jinling Kang and Chaofu Lu
Sugarcane bagasse (SCB) is one of the most promising lignocellulosic biomasses for use in the production of biofuels. However, bioethanol production from pure SCB fermentation is still limited by its high proc...
Authors: Meishan Fan, Shuaishuai Zhang, Guangying Ye, Hongdan Zhang and Jun Xie
