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  1. Biomass pretreatment remains an essential step in lignocellulosic biofuel production, largely to facilitate the efficient removal of lignin and increase enzyme accessibility to the polysaccharides. In recent y...

    Authors: Kwang Ho Kim, Tanmoy Dutta, John Ralph, Shawn D. Mansfield, Blake A. Simmons and Seema Singh
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:101
  2. Lignocellulolytic enzymes are the main enzymes to saccharify lignocellulose from renewable plant biomass in the bio-based economy. The production of these enzymes is transcriptionally regulated by multiple tra...

    Authors: Liwei Gao, Zhonghai Li, Chengqiang Xia, Yinbo Qu, Meng Liu, Piao Yang, Lele Yu and Xin Song
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:100
  3. Despite being the most important cellulase producer, the cellulase-regulating carbon source signal transduction processes in Trichoderma reesei are largely unknown. Elucidating these processes is the key for unve...

    Authors: Mingyu Wang, Meiling Zhang, Ling Li, Yanmei Dong, Yi Jiang, Kuimei Liu, Ruiqin Zhang, Baojie Jiang, Kangle Niu and Xu Fang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:99
  4. Microalgae have emerged as a potential feedstock for biofuels and bioactive components. However, lack of microalgal strains with promising triacylglycerol (TAG) content and desirable fatty acid composition hav...

    Authors: Srinivasan Balamurugan, Xiang Wang, Hong-Lei Wang, Chun-Jing An, Hui Li, Da-Wei Li, Wei-Dong Yang, Jie-Sheng Liu and Hong-Ye Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:97
  5. Formic acid is an inhibitory compound present in lignocellulosic hydrolysates. Understanding the complex molecular mechanisms underlying Saccharomyces cerevisiae tolerance to this weak acid at the system level is...

    Authors: Sílvia F. Henriques, Nuno P. Mira and Isabel Sá-Correia
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:96
  6. Development of biofuels is considered as one of the important ways to replace conventional fossil energy and mitigate climate change. However, rapid increase of biofuel production could cause other environment...

    Authors: Xiaomin Xie, Tingting Zhang, Liming Wang and Zhen Huang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:95
  7. Microalgae grown under different nutrient deficient conditions present a good source of natural lipids with applications for several types of biofuels. The expression of acetyl-CoA carboxylase gene can further...

    Authors: Roshan Kumar, Koushik Biswas, Puneet Kumar Singh, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Sanniyasi Elumalai, Pratyoosh Shukla and Sunil Pabbi
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:94
  8. Ethanol photosynthetic production based on cyanobacteria cell factories utilizing CO2 and solar energy provides an attractive solution for sustainable production of green fuels. However, the scaling up processes ...

    Authors: Zhi Zhu, Guodong Luan, Xiaoming Tan, Haocui Zhang and Xuefeng Lu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:93
  9. Efficient cofermentation of glucose and xylose is necessary for economically feasible bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass. Here, we demonstrate pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse (SCB) with green...

    Authors: Yanzhi You, Pengfei Li, Fuhou Lei, Yang Xing and Jianxin Jiang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:92
  10. Nutrient limitation, such as nitrogen depletion, is the most widely used method for improving microalgae fatty acid production; however, these harsh conditions also inhibit algal growth significantly and even ...

    Authors: Chaogang Wang, Xi Chen, Hui Li, Jiangxin Wang and Zhangli Hu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:91
  11. Microalgae are currently considered as a promising feedstock for the production of biofuels and high-value products. However, the efficient harvest of microalgal biomasses from their culture broth is a major c...

    Authors: Cong Liu, Yan Hao, Jihong Jiang and Weijie Liu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:90
  12. Nutrient deprivation causes significant stress to the unicellular microalga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, which responds by significantly altering its metabolic program. Following N deprivation, the accumulation of...

    Authors: Mahmoud Gargouri, Philip D. Bates, Jeong-Jin Park, Helmut Kirchhoff and David R. Gang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:89
  13. Pretreatment is a crucial step for valorization of lignocellulosic biomass into valuable products such as H2, ethanol, acids, and methane. As pretreatment can change several decisive factors concurrently, it is d...

    Authors: Fan Lü, Lina Chai, Liming Shao and Pinjing He
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:88
  14. Driven by a range of sustainability challenges, e.g. climate change, resource depletion and expanding populations, a circular bioeconomy is emerging and expected to evolve progressively in the coming decades. ...

    Authors: Somayeh Farzad, Mohsen Ali Mandegari, Miao Guo, Kathleen F. Haigh, Nilay Shah and Johann F. Görgens
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:87
  15. As a natural renewable biomass, the tea oil fruit hull (TOFH) mainly consists of lignocellulose, together with some bioactive substances. Our earlier work constructed a two-stage solvent-based process, includi...

    Authors: Song Tang, Rukuan Liu, Fubao Fuelbiol Sun, Chunying Dong, Rui Wang, Zhongyuan Gao, Zhanying Zhang, Zhihong Xiao, Changzhu Li and Hui Li
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:86
  16. Biologically, hydrogen (H2) can be produced through dark fermentation and photofermentation. Dark fermentation is fast in rate and simple in reactor design, but H2 production yield is unsatisfactorily low as <4 m...

    Authors: Balaji Sundara Sekar, Eunhee Seol and Sunghoon Park
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:85
  17. Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has come to be seen as one of the most viable technologies to provide the negative carbon dioxide emissions needed to constrain global temperatures. In practic...

    Authors: Christine E. Sharp, Sydney Urschel, Xiaoli Dong, Allyson L. Brady, Greg F. Slater and Marc Strous
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:84
  18. The product of current syngas fermentation systems is an ethanol/acetic acid mixture and the goal is to maximize ethanol recovery. However, ethanol currently has a relatively low market value and its separatio...

    Authors: Sylvia Gildemyn, Bastian Molitor, Joseph G. Usack, Mytien Nguyen, Korneel Rabaey and Largus T. Angenent
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:83
  19. Inefficient carbohydrate conversion has been an unsolved problem for various lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment technologies, including AFEX, dilute acid, and ionic liquid pretreatments. Previous work has sh...

    Authors: Christa Gunawan, Saisi Xue, Sivakumar Pattathil, Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Bruce E. Dale and Venkatesh Balan
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:82
  20. Lignocellulosic biomass is one of the most promising alternatives for replacing mineral resources to overcome global warming, which has become the most important environmental issue in recent years. Furfural w...

    Authors: Le Cao Nhien, Nguyen Van Duc Long, Sangyong Kim and Moonyong Lee
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:81
  21. Citrobacter amalonaticus Y19 is a good biocatalyst for production of hydrogen (H2) from oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) via the so-called water–gas-shift reaction (WGSR). It has a hi...

    Authors: Satish Kumar Ainala, Eunhee Seol, Jung Rae Kim and Sunghoon Park
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:80
  22. Bioethanol from lignocellulosic materials is of great significance to the production of renewable fuels due to its wide sources. However, multiple inhibitors generated from pretreatments represent great challe...

    Authors: Jiaoqi Gao, Hualiang Feng, Wenjie Yuan, Yimin Li, Shengbo Hou, Shijun Zhong and Fengwu Bai
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:79
  23. Lignocellulosic biomass is a common resource across the globe, and its fermentation offers a promising option for generating renewable liquid transportation fuels. The deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass...

    Authors: David Peris, Ryan V. Moriarty, William G. Alexander, EmilyClare Baker, Kayla Sylvester, Maria Sardi, Quinn K. Langdon, Diego Libkind, Qi-Ming Wang, Feng-Yan Bai, Jean-Baptiste Leducq, Guillaume Charron, Christian R. Landry, José Paulo Sampaio, Paula Gonçalves, Katie E. Hyma…
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:78
  24. Erythritol, a four-carbon polyol synthesized by microorganisms as an osmoprotectant, is a natural sweetener produced on an industrial scale for decades. Despite the fact that the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica has bee...

    Authors: Aleksandra M. Mirończuk, Anna Biegalska and Adam Dobrowolski
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:77
  25. Although numerous studies have used wastewater as substitutes to cultivate microalgae, most of them obtained weaker algal viability than standard media. Some studies demonstrated a promotion of phytohormones o...

    Authors: Haiyan Pei, Liqun Jiang, Qingjie Hou and Ze Yu
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:76
  26. Microalgae are highly efficient cellular factories that capture CO2 and are also alternative feedstock for biofuel production. Carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids are major biochemical components in microalgae. C...

    Authors: Dujia Cheng, Dengjin Li, Yizhong Yuan, Lin Zhou, Xuyang Li, Tong Wu, Liang Wang, Quanyu Zhao, Wei Wei and Yuhan Sun
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:75
  27. Domain of Unknown Function 266 (DUF266) is a plant-specific domain. DUF266-containing proteins (DUF266 proteins) have been categorized as ‘not classified glycosyltransferases (GTnc)’ due to amino acid similari...

    Authors: Yongil Yang, Chang Geun Yoo, Hao-Bo Guo, William Rottmann, Kimberly A. Winkeler, Cassandra M. Collins, Lee E. Gunter, Sara S. Jawdy, Xiaohan Yang, Hong Guo, Yunqiao Pu, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Gerald A. Tuskan and Jin-Gui Chen
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:74
  28. Cellulose-degrading thermophilic anaerobic bacterium as a suitable host for consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) has been proposed as an economically suited platform for the production of second-generation biofuel...

    Authors: Nisha Singh, Anshu S. Mathur, Deepak K. Tuli, Ravi. P. Gupta, Colin J. Barrow and Munish Puri
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:73
  29. Pretreatment is necessary to reduce biomass recalcitrance and enhance the efficiency of enzymatic saccharification for biofuel production. Ionic liquid (IL) pretreatment has gained a significant interest as a ...

    Authors: Jose A. Perez-Pimienta, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, Vicki S. Thompson, Kim Tran, Teresa Ponce-Noyola, Vitalie Stavila, Seema Singh and Blake A. Simmons
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:72
  30. The feasibility of heterotrophic–phototrophic symbioses was tested via pairing of yeast strains Cryptococcus curvatus, Rhodotorula glutinis, or Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a sucrose-secreting cyanobacterium Syn...

    Authors: Tingting Li, Chien-Ting Li, Kirk Butler, Stephanie G. Hays, Michael T. Guarnieri, George A. Oyler and Michael J. Betenbaugh
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:55
  31. GH7 cellobiohydrolases (CBH1) are vital for the breakdown of cellulose. We had previously observed the enzyme as the most dominant protein in the active cellulose-hydrolyzing secretome of the hypercellulolytic...

    Authors: Funso Emmanuel Ogunmolu, Navya Bhatt Kammachi Jagadeesha, Rakesh Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Dinesh Gupta and Syed Shams Yazdani
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:71
  32. Acetyl-triacylglycerols (acetyl-TAGs) are unusual triacylglycerol (TAG) molecules that contain an sn-3 acetate group. Compared to typical triacylglycerol molecules (here referred to as long chain TAGs; lcTAGs), a...

    Authors: Tam N. T. Tran, Rebecca J. Breuer, Ragothaman Avanasi Narasimhan, Lucas S. Parreiras, Yaoping Zhang, Trey K. Sato and Timothy P. Durrett
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:69
  33. Concentration and purification of ethanol and other biofuels from fermentations are energy-intensive processes, with amplified costs at smaller scales. To circumvent the need for these processes, and to potent...

    Authors: Marcus S. Benyamin, Justin P. Jahnke and David M. Mackie
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:68
  34. Floudas et al. (Science 336: 1715) established that lignin-degrading fungi appeared at the end of Carboniferous period associated with the production of the first ligninolytic peroxidases. Here, the subsequent ev...

    Authors: Iván Ayuso-Fernández, Angel T. Martínez and Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:67
  35. Resistance to deconstruction is a major limitation to the use of lignocellulosic biomass as a substrate for the production of fuels and chemicals. Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), the use of microbes for the ...

    Authors: Sun-Ki Kim, Joseph Groom, Daehwan Chung, James Elkins and Janet Westpheling
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:66
  36. This paper describes the metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the anaerobic fermentation of glucose to acetoin. Acetoin has well-established applications in industrial food production and was suggested t...

    Authors: Andreas H. Förster, Sebastian Beblawy, Frederik Golitsch and Johannes Gescher
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:65
  37. The introduction of renewable jet fuel (RJF) is considered an important emission mitigation measure for the aviation industry. This study compares the well-to-wake (WtWa) greenhouse gas (GHG) emission performa...

    Authors: Sierk de Jong, Kay Antonissen, Ric Hoefnagels, Laura Lonza, Michael Wang, André Faaij and Martin Junginger
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:64
  38. Ethanol production from lignocellulosic feedstocks (also known as 2nd generation or 2G ethanol process) presents a great potential for reducing both ethanol production costs and climate change impacts since ag...

    Authors: Tassia L. Junqueira, Mateus F. Chagas, Vera L. R. Gouveia, Mylene C. A. F. Rezende, Marcos D. B. Watanabe, Charles D. F. Jesus, Otavio Cavalett, Artur Y. Milanez and Antonio Bonomi
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:50
  39. The enzymatic conversion of plant biomass has been recently revolutionized by the discovery of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMO) that catalyze oxidative cleavage of polysaccharides. These powerful enz...

    Authors: Mathieu Fanuel, Sona Garajova, David Ropartz, Nicholas McGregor, Harry Brumer, Hélène Rogniaux and Jean-Guy Berrin
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:63
  40. Duckweed (family Lemnaceae) has recently been recognized as an ideal biomass feedstock for biofuel production due to its rapid growth and high starch content, which inspired interest in improving their productivi...

    Authors: Hidehiro Ishizawa, Masashi Kuroda, Masaaki Morikawa and Michihiko Ike
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:62
  41. Conversion of softwoods into sustainable fuels and chemicals is important for parts of the world where softwoods are the dominant forest species. While they have high theoretical sugar yields, softwoods are am...

    Authors: Ian D. Suckling, Michael W. Jack, John A. Lloyd, Karl D. Murton, Roger H. Newman, Trevor R. Stuthridge, Kirk M. Torr and Alankar A. Vaidya
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:61
  42. Microalgae accumulate a considerable amount of lipids and carbohydrate under nutrient-deficient conditions, which makes them one of the promising sustainable resources for biofuel production. In the present st...

    Authors: Kaumeel Chokshi, Imran Pancha, Arup Ghosh and Sandhya Mishra
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:60
  43. N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine (GlcNAc)6 is extensively used as an important bio-agent and a functional food additive. The traditional chemical process for GlcNAc production has some problem...

    Authors: Tae Il Kim, Kwang Seok Ki, Dong Hyun Lim, Mayakrishnan Vijayakumar, Seong Min Park, Sun Ho Choi, Ki Young Kim, Seok Ki Im and Beom Young Park
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:59
  44. Microbial formation of acetone, isopropanol, and butanol is largely restricted to bacteria belonging to the genus Clostridium. This ability has been industrially exploited over the last 100 years. The solvents ar...

    Authors: Anja Poehlein, José David Montoya Solano, Stefanie K. Flitsch, Preben Krabben, Klaus Winzer, Sharon J. Reid, David T. Jones, Edward Green, Nigel P. Minton, Rolf Daniel and Peter Dürre
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:58
  45. The unicellular model cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is considered a promising microbial chassis for biofuel production. However, its low tolerance to biofuel toxicity limits its potential application....

    Authors: Guangsheng Pei, Tao Sun, Shuo Chen, Lei Chen and Weiwen Zhang
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:57
  46. Future sustainable energy production can be achieved using mass cultures of photoautotrophic microorganisms, which are engineered to synthesize valuable products directly from CO2 and sunlight. As cyanobacteria c...

    Authors: Joachim Kopka, Stefanie Schmidt, Frederik Dethloff, Nadin Pade, Susanne Berendt, Marco Schottkowski, Nico Martin, Ulf Dühring, Ekaterina Kuchmina, Heike Enke, Dan Kramer, Annegret Wilde, Martin Hagemann and Alexandra Friedrich
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:56
  47. Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and inexpensive resource for biofuel production. Alongside its biotechnological conversion, pretreatment is essential to enable efficient enzymatic hydrolysis by making c...

    Authors: Constantinos Katsimpouras, Konstantinos G. Kalogiannis, Aggeliki Kalogianni, Angelos A. Lappas and Evangelos Topakas
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:54
  48. Cellulase expression via extracellular secretion or surface display in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the most frequently used strategies for a consolidated bioprocess (CBP) of cellulosic ethanol production. ...

    Authors: Hongting Tang, Meihui Song, Yao He, Jiajing Wang, Shenghuan Wang, Yu Shen, Jin Hou and Xiaoming Bao
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:53
  49. The high crystallinity of cellulosic biomass myofibrils as well as the complexity of their intermolecular structure is a significant impediment for biofuel production. Cloning of celB-, celC-encoded cellulases (c...

    Authors: Eman Ibrahim, Kim D. Jones, Keith E. Taylor, Ebtesam N. Hosseney, Patrick L. Mills and Jean M. Escudero
    Citation: Biotechnology for Biofuels 2017 10:52