Recent progress in engineering Clostridium autoethanogenum to synthesize the biochemicals and biocommodities [PDF]
Synthetic and Systems BiotechnologyExcessive mining and utilization fossil fuels has led to drastic environmental consequences, which will contribute to global warming and cause further climate change with severe consequences for the human population.
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Agr Quorum Sensing influences the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Clostridium autoethanogenum [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Acetogenic bacteria are capable of fermenting CO2 and carbon monoxide containing waste-gases into a range of platform chemicals and fuels. Despite major advances in genetic engineering and improving these biocatalysts, several important physiological ...
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The Carbonic Anhydrase of Clostridium autoethanogenum Represents a New Subclass of β-Carbonic Anhydrases [PDF]
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2019 Carbonic anhydrase catalyses the interconversion of carbon dioxide and water to bicarbonate and protons. It was unknown if the industrial relevant acetogen Clostridium autoethanogenum possesses these enzymes. We identified two putative carbonic anhydrase
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H2 drives metabolic rearrangements in gas-fermenting Clostridium autoethanogenum [PDF]
Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2018 Background The global demand for affordable carbon has never been stronger, and there is an imperative in many industrial processes to use waste streams to make products.
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Fermentation, 2022 Synthesis gas fermentation is a microbial process, which uses anaerobic bacteria to convert CO-rich gases to organic acids and alcohols and thus presents a promising technology for the sustainable production of fuels and platform chemicals from renewable
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Enhancing CO2-Valorization Using Clostridium autoethanogenum for Sustainable Fuel and Chemicals Production [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 Acetogenic bacteria can convert waste gases into fuels and chemicals. Design of bioprocesses for waste carbon valorization requires quantification of steady-state carbon flows.
James K. Heffernan +12 more
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Required Gene Set for Autotrophic Growth of Clostridium autoethanogenum. [PDF]
Appl Environ Microbiol, 2022 The majority of the genes present in bacterial genomes remain poorly characterized, with up to one-third of those that are protein encoding having no definitive function.
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Engineering of vitamin prototrophy in Clostridium ljungdahlii and Clostridium autoethanogenum. [PDF]
Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, 2019 Clostridium autoethanogenum and Clostridium ljungdahlii are physiologically and genetically very similar strict anaerobic acetogens capable of growth on carbon monoxide as sole carbon source.
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Modeling a co-culture of Clostridium autoethanogenum and Clostridium kluyveri to increase syngas conversion to medium-chain fatty-acids [PDF]
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2020 Microbial fermentation of synthesis gas (syngas) is becoming more attractive for sustainable production of commodity chemicals. To date, syngas fermentation focuses mainly on the use of Clostridium species for the production of small organic molecules ...
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Systems-level analysis predicts no autotrophy-linked protein-RNA interactions in Clostridium autoethanogenum [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsBurning fossil fuels drives climate change with detrimental consequences on humankind while waste accumulation from increasing consumption threatens biosustainability globally.
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