Peptidoglycan remodeling improves salt resilience of Zymomonas mobilis [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyThe alpha-proteobacterium Zymomonas mobilis is one of the most efficient microbial producers of ethanol and has the potential to be established as biofuel producer at industrial scale. However, a bottleneck hindering the full use of Z.
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Physiological and metabolic responses of Zymomonas mobilis to lignocellulosic hydrolysate [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumZymomonas mobilis is a promising biocatalyst for the sustainable conversion of lignocellulosic sugars into biofuels and bioproducts, yet its response to lignocellulosic hydrolysates remains poorly understood.
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Metabolic regulation boosts bioelectricity generation in Zymomonas mobilis microbial fuel cell, surpassing ethanol production [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Zymomonas mobilis (Z. mobilis), a bacterium known for its ethanol production capabilities, can also generate electricity by transitioning from ethanol production to electron generation.
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Molecular mechanism of enhanced ethanol tolerance associated with hfq overexpression in Zymomonas mobilis [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 Zymomonas mobilis is a promising microorganism for industrial bioethanol production. However, ethanol produced during fermentation is toxic to Z. mobilis and affects its growth and bioethanol production. Although several reports demonstrated that the RNA-
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Seven inducible promoters for Zymomonas mobilis [PDF]
Microbial Cell FactoriesZymomonas mobilis is an ethanologenic Alphaproteobacterium with many interesting characteristics for fundamental research and applied microbial engineering. Although genetic engineering has been established for Z.
Gerrich Behrendt
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Systematic Analysis of Metabolic Bottlenecks in the Methylerythritol 4-Phosphate (MEP) Pathway of Zymomonas mobilis [PDF]
mSystems, 2023 Zymomonas mobilis is an industrially relevant aerotolerant anaerobic bacterium that can convert up to 96% of consumed glucose to ethanol. This highly catabolic metabolism could be leveraged to produce isoprenoid-based bioproducts via the methylerythritol
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Regulation of biofilm formation in Zymomonas mobilis to enhance stress tolerance by heterologous expression of pfs and luxS [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Zymomonas mobilis is a potential alternative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce cellulosic ethanol with strengths in cofactor balance, but its lower tolerance to inhibitors in the lignocellulosic hydrolysate restricts the application.
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MicrobiologyOpen, 2019 Acetaldehyde, a valuable commodity chemical, is a volatile inhibitory byproduct of aerobic fermentation in Zymomonas mobilis and in several other microorganisms.
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Better off breathing: an explanation for the seemingly detrimental impact of aerobic respiration on Zymomonas mobilis [PDF]
mBioThe bacterium Zymomonas mobilis is best known for fermentatively producing more ethanol than yeast. However, Z. mobilis has also puzzled researchers for decades with the counterintuitive observation that disrupting aerobic respiration benefits aerobic ...
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"Fish-in-net", a novel method for cell immobilization of Zymomonas mobilis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: Inorganic mesoporous materials exhibit good biocompatibility and hydrothermal stability for cell immobilization. However, it is difficult to encapsulate living cells under mild conditions, and new strategies for cell immobilization are needed.
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