Evaluation of Yeast Alcohol Acetyltransferases for Ethyl Acetate Production in Clostridium ljungdahlii [PDF]
Engineering in Life SciencesSustainable chemical production from C1 gaseous substrates, such as syngas or CO2/H2, can be achieved through gas fermentation. In gas fermentation, acetogenic bacteria are able to utilize oxidized inorganic carbon sources as the sole carbon source and ...
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Growth and Product Formation of Clostridium ljungdahlii in Presence of Cyanide [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Cyanide is a minor constituent of crude syngas whose content depends on the feedstock and gasification procedure. It is a known poison to metal catalysts and inhibits iron-containing enzymes like carbon monoxide dehydrogenase of acetogenic organisms ...
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Converting Carbon Dioxide to Butyrate with an Engineered Strain of
mBio, 2014 Microbial conversion of carbon dioxide to organic commodities via syngas metabolism or microbial electrosynthesis is an attractive option for production of renewable biocommodities.
Toshiyuki Ueki +3 more
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Cross-talk between engineered Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium ljungdahlii in syntrophic cocultures enhances isopropanol and butanol production [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThere is a need for efficient and sustainable production of essential chemicals such as isopropanol and butanol from renewable sugar feedstocks. Microbial fermentations use glycolysis, and as result, a third of the sugar carbon is lost to CO2 through ...
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A technique for lyopreservation of Clostridium ljungdahlii in a biocomposite matrix for CO absorption. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 A system capable of biocatalytic conversion of distributed sources of single carbon gases such as carbon monoxide into hydrocarbons can be highly beneficial for developing commercially viable biotechnology applications in alternative energy.
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Formic Acid Formation by Clostridium ljungdahlii at Elevated Pressures of Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2018 Low productivities of bioprocesses using gaseous carbon and energy sources are usually caused by the low solubility of those gases (e.g., H2 and CO).
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Kinetic Studies on Fermentative Production of Biofuel from Synthesis Gas Using Clostridium ljungdahlii [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 The intrinsic growth, substrate uptake, and product formation biokinetic parameters were obtained for the anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium ljungdahlii, grown on synthesis gas in various pressurized batch bioreactors. A dual-substrate growth kinetic model
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Characterizing acetogenic metabolism using a genome-scale metabolic reconstruction of Clostridium ljungdahlii. [PDF]
Microb Cell Fact, 2013 Abstract Background The metabolic capabilities of acetogens to ferment a wide range of sugars, to grow autotrophically on H2/CO2, and more importantly on synthesis gas (H2/CO/CO2) make them very attractive candidates as production hosts for biofuels and biocommodities.
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Metabolic engineering of Clostridium autoethanogenum for selective alcohol production [PDF]
Metabolic Engineering, 2017 Gas fermentation using acetogenic bacteria such as Clostridium autoethanogenum offers an attractive route for production of fuel ethanol from industrial waste gases.
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Inducible promoters of bacterial microcompartments improve the CRISPR/Cas9 tools for efficient metabolic engineering of Clostridium ljungdahlii [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyClostridium ljungdahlii, as a model acetogen strain, represents a novel platform for biotechnological production for CO2 fixation. The genome of C. ljungdahlii harbors two gene loci associated with glycyl radical enzyme-associated microcompartments (GRMs)
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