Metabolic engineering for the production of butanol, a potential advanced biofuel, from renewable resources.
Biochem Soc Trans
; 48(5): 2283-2293, 2020 10 30.
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| ID: mdl-32897293
ABSTRACT
Butanol is an important chemical and potential fuel. For more than 100 years, acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation of Clostridium strains has been the most successful process for biological butanol production. In recent years, other microbes have been engineered to produce butanol as well, among which Escherichia coli was the best one. Considering the crude oil price fluctuation, minimizing the cost of butanol production is of highest priority for its industrial application. Therefore, using cheaper feedstocks instead of pure sugars is an important project. In this review, we summarized butanol production from different renewable resources, such as industrial and food waste, lignocellulosic biomass, syngas and other renewable resources. This review will present the current progress in this field and provide insights for further engineering efforts on renewable butanol production.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Refuse Disposal
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Butanols
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Biofuels
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Metabolic Engineering
Language:
En
Journal:
Biochem Soc Trans
Year:
2020
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
China