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  1. This study aims to chemically characterize thin stillage derived from lignocellulosic biomass distillation residues in terms of organic strength, nutrient, and mineral content. The feasibility of performing an...

    Authors: Margreet J. Oosterkamp, Celia Méndez-García, Chang-H. Kim, Stefan Bauer, Ana B. Ibáñez, Sabrina Zimmerman, Pei-Ying Hong, Isaac K. Cann and Roderick I. Mackie
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:120
  2. Saccharification of lignocellulosic material by xylanases and other glycoside hydrolases is generally conducted at high concentrations of the final reaction products, which frequently inhibit the enzymes used ...

    Authors: Lucas Ferreira Ribeiro, Jennifer Tullman, Nathan Nicholes, Sérgio Ruschi Bergamachi Silva, Davi Serradella Vieira, Marc Ostermeier and Richard John Ward
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:119
  3. In the bioconversion of lignocellulosic substrates, the adsorption behavior of cellulase onto lignin has a negative effect on enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose, decreasing glucose production during enzymatic h...

    Authors: Xianqin Lu, Xiaoju Zheng, Xuezhi Li and Jian Zhao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:118
  4. 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD) can be used as a liquid fuel additive to replace petroleum oil, and as an important platform chemical in the pharmaceutical and plastic industries. Microbial production of 2,3-BD by Bacill...

    Authors: Yimin Qiu, Jinyan Zhang, Lu Li, Zhiyou Wen, Christopher T. Nomura, Shuilin Wu and Shouwen Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:117
  5. Biofuel production from plant cell walls offers the potential for sustainable and economically attractive alternatives to petroleum-based products. Fuels from cellulosic biomass are particularly promising, but...

    Authors: Liang Tian, Beth Papanek, Daniel G. Olson, Thomas Rydzak, Evert K. Holwerda, Tianyong Zheng, Jilai Zhou, Marybeth Maloney, Nannan Jiang, Richard J. Giannone, Robert L. Hettich, Adam M. Guss and Lee R. Lynd
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:116
  6. Escherichia coli has been explored as a platform host strain for biofuels production such as butanol. However, the severe toxicity of butanol is considered to be one major limitation f...

    Authors: Hai-Ming Si, Fa Zhang, An-Ning Wu, Rui-Zhi Han, Guo-Chao Xu and Ye Ni
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:114
  7. Clostridium acetobutylicum has been a focus of research because of its ability to produce high-value compounds that can be used as biofuels. Lignocellulose is a promising feedstock, bu...

    Authors: Mahendra P. Raut, Narciso Couto, Trong K. Pham, Caroline Evans, Josselin Noirel and Phillip C. Wright
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:113
  8. The Anaerolineae lineage of Chloroflexi had been identified as one of the core microbial populations in anaerobic digesters; however, the ecological role of the Anaerolineae remains uncertain due to the scarcity ...

    Authors: Yu Xia, Yubo Wang, Yi Wang, Francis Y. L. Chin and Tong Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:111
  9. Glycoside hydrolases (GHs) and accessory proteins are key components for efficient and cost-effective enzymatic hydrolysis of polysaccharides in modern, biochemically based biorefineries. Currently, commercial...

    Authors: Fernanda Valadares, Thiago A. Gonçalves, Dayelle S. P. O. Gonçalves, Fernando Segato, Elisson Romanel, Adriane M. F. Milagres, Fabio M. Squina and André Ferraz
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:110
  10. The use of fossil fuels is no longer tenable. Not only are they a finite resource, their use is damaging the environment through pollution and global warming. Alternative, environmentally friendly, renewable s...

    Authors: Benjamin J. Willson, Katalin Kovács, Tom Wilding-Steele, Robert Markus, Klaus Winzer and Nigel P. Minton
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:109
  11. Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) belong to the “auxiliary activities (AA)” enzyme class of the CAZy database. They are known to strongly improve the saccharification process and boost soluble sugar ...

    Authors: Ilabahen Patel, Daniel Kracher, Su Ma, Sona Garajova, Mireille Haon, Craig B. Faulds, Jean-Guy Berrin, Roland Ludwig and Eric Record
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:108
  12. Fatty alcohols are important oleochemicals widely used in detergents, surfactants and personal care products. Bio-synthesized fatty alcohol provides a promising alternative to traditional fatty alcohol industr...

    Authors: Guokun Wang, Xiaochao Xiong, Rishikesh Ghogare, Pengdong Wang, Yonghong Meng and Shulin Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:107
  13. Lignin content and structure are known to affect recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass to chemical/biochemical conversion. Previously, we identified rare Populus trichocarpa natural variants with significantly...

    Authors: Samarthya Bhagia, Wellington Muchero, Rajeev Kumar, Gerald A. Tuskan and Charles E. Wyman
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:106
  14. The production of biofuels and biochemicals from grass-type plant biomass requires a complete utilisation of the plant cellulose and hemicellulosic xylan via enzymatic degradation to their constituent monosacc...

    Authors: Patricia Murciano Martínez, Maaike M. Appeldoorn, Harry Gruppen and Mirjam A. Kabel
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:105
  15. The search for new enzymes and microbial strains to degrade plant biomass is one of the most important strategies for improving the conversion processes in the production of environment-friendly chemicals and ...

    Authors: Rubén López-Mondéjar, Daniela Zühlke, Tomáš Větrovský, Dörte Becher, Katharina Riedel and Petr Baldrian
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:104
  16. Water-forming NADH oxidase can oxidize cytosolic NADH to NAD+, thus relieving cytosolic NADH accumulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Previous studies of the enzyme were conducted under aerobic conditions, as O2

    Authors: Xin-Chi Shi, Ya-Nan Zou, Yong Chen, Cheng Zheng, Bing-Bing Li, Jia-Hui Xu, Xiao-Ning Shen and Han-Jie Ying
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:103
  17. Applications of the power-to-gas principle for the handling of surplus renewable electricity have been proposed. The feasibility of using hydrogenotrophic methanogens as CH4 generating catalysts has been demonstr...

    Authors: Márk Szuhaj, Norbert Ács, Roland Tengölics, Attila Bodor, Gábor Rákhely, Kornél L. Kovács and Zoltán Bagi
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:102
  18. The microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a technology in which microorganisms employ an electrode (anode) as a solid electron acceptor for anaerobic respiration. This results in direct transformation of chemical energ...

    Authors: Xavier Alexis Walter, Iwona Gajda, Samuel Forbes, Jonathan Winfield, John Greenman and Ioannis Ieropoulos
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:93
  19. Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) is a dedicated lignocellulosic feedstock for bioenergy production. The SQUAMOSA PROMOTER-BINDING PROTEIN (SBP-box)-LIKE transcription factors (SPLs) change plant architecture and...

    Authors: Zhenying Wu, Yingping Cao, Ruijuan Yang, Tianxiong Qi, Yuqing Hang, Hao Lin, Gongke Zhou, Zeng-Yu Wang and Chunxiang Fu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:101
  20. Grasses are lignocellulosic materials useful to supply the billion-tons annual requirement for renewable resources that aim to produce transportation fuels and a variety of chemicals. However, the polysacchari...

    Authors: Thales H. F. Costa, Miguel E. Vega-Sánchez, Adriane M. F. Milagres, Henrik V. Scheller and André Ferraz
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:99
  21. Thermophilic enzymes have attracted much attention for their advantages of high reaction velocity, exceptional thermostability, and decreased risk of contamination. Exploring efficient thermophilic glycoside h...

    Authors: Xiaowei Peng, Hong Su, Shuofu Mi and Yejun Han
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:98
  22. Production of advanced biofuels from woody and herbaceous feedstocks is moving into commercialization. Biomass needs to be pretreated to overcome the physicochemical properties of biomass that hinder enzyme ac...

    Authors: Sun Min Kim, Bruce S. Dien and Vijay Singh
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:97

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  23. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an important eukaryotic workhorse in traditional and modern biotechnology. At present, only a few S. cerevisiae strains have been extensively used as engineering hosts. Recen...

    Authors: Da Wang, Fu-Li Li and Shi-An Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:96
  24. Fermentative hydrogen (H2) production suffers from low carbon-to-H2 yield, to which problem, co-production of ethanol and H2 has been proposed as a solution. For improved co-production of H2 and ethanol, we devel...

    Authors: Balaji Sundara Sekar, Eunhee Seol, Subramanian Mohan Raj and Sunghoon Park
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:95
  25. Fossil resources-free sustainable development can be achieved through a transition to bioeconomy, an economy based on sustainable biomass-derived food, feed, chemicals, materials, and fuels. However, the trans...

    Authors: Alexander Golberg, Martin Sack, Justin Teissie, Gianpiero Pataro, Uwe Pliquett, Gintautas Saulis, Töpfl Stefan, Damijan Miklavcic, Eugene Vorobiev and Wolfgang Frey
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:94
  26. Clostridium acetobutylicum possesses two homologous adhE genes, adhE1 and adhE2, which have been proposed to be responsible for butanol production in solventogenic and alcohologenic cu...

    Authors: Minyeong Yoo, Christian Croux, Isabelle Meynial-Salles and Philippe Soucaille
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:92
  27. Among the three model cyanobacterial species that have been used for engineering a system for photosynthetic production of free fatty acids (FFAs), Synechococcus elongatus PCC7942 has been the least successful; t...

    Authors: Akihiro Kato, Kazuhide Use, Nobuyuki Takatani, Kazutaka Ikeda, Miyuki Matsuura, Kouji Kojima, Makiko Aichi, Shin-ichi Maeda and Tatsuo Omata
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:91
  28. 2,3-Butanediol (2,3-BD) with low toxicity to microbes, could be a promising alternative for biofuel production. However, most of the 2,3-BD producers are opportunistic pathogens that are not suitable for indus...

    Authors: Jing Fu, Guangxin Huo, Lili Feng, Yufeng Mao, Zhiwen Wang, Hongwu Ma, Tao Chen and Xueming Zhao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:90
  29. Cyanobacteria are phototrophic prokaryotes that convert inorganic carbon as CO2 into organic compounds at the expense of light energy. They need only inorganic nutrients and can be cultivated to high densities us...

    Authors: Nadin Pade, Sabrina Erdmann, Heike Enke, Frederik Dethloff, Ulf Dühring, Jens Georg, Juliane Wambutt, Joachim Kopka, Wolfgang R. Hess, Ralf Zimmermann, Dan Kramer and Martin Hagemann
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:89
  30. High content of water-insoluble solids (WIS) is required for simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation (SSCF) operations to reach the high ethanol concentrations that meet the techno-economic requireme...

    Authors: Ruifei Wang, Pornkamol Unrean and Carl Johan Franzén
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:88
  31. Due to the depletion of fossil resources and their environmental impact, woody biomass has received much attention as an alternative resource. Lignin, as the third most abundant biopolymer from biomass, is now...

    Authors: Changzhou Chen, Mingqiang Zhu, Mingfei Li, Yongming Fan and Run-Cang Sun
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:87
  32. The biodiesel production can be carried out by transesterification using either chemical or enzymatic process. The enzymatic transesterification is more promising as it offers an environmental friendly option ...

    Authors: Qiaojuan Yan, Xiaojie Duan, Yu Liu, Zhengqiang Jiang and Shaoqing Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:86
  33. The main challenges of large-scale biochemical conversion involve the high costs of cellulolytic enzymes and the inefficiency in enzymatic deconstruction of polysaccharides embedded in the complex structure of...

    Authors: Yanan Zhang, Mengmeng Zhang, R. Alexander Reese, Haiqian Zhang and Bingqian Xu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:85
  34. The toxicity of alcohols is one of the major roadblocks of biological fermentation for biofuels production. Methylobacterium extorquens AM1, a facultative methylotrophic α-proteobacterium, has been engineered to ...

    Authors: Bo Hu, Yi-Ming Yang, David A. C. Beck, Qian-Wen Wang, Wen-Jing Chen, Jing Yang, Mary E. Lidstrom and Song Yang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:84
  35. Bioelectrochemical systems have been considered a promising novel technology that shows an enhanced energy recovery, as well as generation of value-added products. A number of recent studies suggested that an ...

    Authors: Wenzong Liu, Zhangwei He, Chunxue Yang, Aijuan Zhou, Zechong Guo, Bin Liang, Cristiano Varrone and Ai-Jie Wang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:83
  36. Synthesis gas, a mixture of CO, H2, and CO2, is a promising renewable feedstock for bio-based production of organic chemicals. Production of medium-chain fatty acids can be performed via chain elongation, utilizi...

    Authors: Martijn Diender, Alfons J. M. Stams and Diana Z. Sousa
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:82
  37. Propane, a major component of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) derived from fossil fuels, has widespread applications in vehicles, cooking, and ambient heating. Given the concerns about fossil fuel depletion and car...

    Authors: Lei Zhang, Yajing Liang, Wei Wu, Xiaoming Tan and Xuefeng Lu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:80
  38. SpyTag is a peptide that can form an irreversible covalent linkage to its 12 kDa partner SpyCatcher via a spontaneous isopeptide bond. Herein, we fused SpyTag at the N-terminal of lichenase and SpyCatcher at C...

    Authors: Jindan Wang, Yilin Wang, Xinzhe Wang, Dandan Zhang, Shuyu Wu and Guangya Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:79
  39. Trichoderma reesei is a widely used model cellulolytic fungus, supplying a highly effective cellulase production system. Recently, the biofuel industry discovered filamentous fungi fro...

    Authors: Guangshan Yao, Ruimei Wu, Qinbiao Kan, Liwei Gao, Meng Liu, Piao Yang, Jian Du, Zhonghai Li and Yinbo Qu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:78
  40. Microbial lipids are produced by many oleaginous organisms including the well-characterized yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, which can be engineered for increased lipid yield by up-regulation of the lipid biosynthetic ...

    Authors: Jonathan Friedlander, Vasiliki Tsakraklides, Annapurna Kamineni, Emily H. Greenhagen, Andrew L. Consiglio, Kyle MacEwen, Donald V. Crabtree, Jonathan Afshar, Rebecca L. Nugent, Maureen A. Hamilton, A. Joe Shaw, Colin R. South, Gregory Stephanopoulos and Elena E. Brevnova
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:77
  41. The lignocellulose biorefinery based on the sugar platform usually focuses on polysaccharide bioconversion, while lignin is only burned for energy recovery. Pyrolysis can provide a novel route for the efficien...

    Authors: Keliang Yan, Fang Liu, Qing Chen, Ming Ke, Xin Huang, Weiyao Hu, Bo Zhou, Xiaoyu Zhang and Hongbo Yu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:76
  42. Investigations on a few eukaryotic model organisms showed that many genes are non-randomly distributed on chromosomes. In addition, chromosome ends frequently possess genes that are important for the fitness o...

    Authors: Irina S. Druzhinina, Alexey G. Kopchinskiy, Eva M. Kubicek and Christian P. Kubicek
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:75
  43. Xylan has been identified as a physical barrier which limits cellulose accessibility by covering the outer surface of fibers and interfibrillar space. Therefore, tracking xylan is a prerequisite for understand...

    Authors: Vinay Khatri, Yannick Hébert-Ouellet, Fatma Meddeb-Mouelhi and Marc Beauregard
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:74
  44. Hydrolytic enzymes, such as cellulases and proteases, have various applications, including bioethanol production, extraction of fruit and vegetable juice, detergent formulation, and leather processing. Solid-s...

    Authors: Ponnuswamy Vijayaraghavan, Arumugaperumal Arun, Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi, Samuel Gnana Prakash Vincent, Mariadhas Valan Arasu and Ki Choon Choi
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:73
  45. Pretreating biomass with ionic liquids (IL) increases enzyme accessibility and cellulose is typically recovered through precipitation with an anti-solvent. An industrially feasible pretreatment and hydrolysis ...

    Authors: Shubhasish Goswami, Neha Gupta and Supratim Datta
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:72
  46. Lignin-derived phenolic compounds are universal in the hydrolysate of pretreated lignocellulosic biomass. The phenolics reduce the efficiency of enzymatic hydrolysis and increase the cost of ethanol production...

    Authors: Lei Qin, Wen-Chao Li, Li Liu, Jia-Qing Zhu, Xia Li, Bing-Zhi Li and Ying-Jin Yuan
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2016 9:70