Background Solventogenic clostridia offer a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based
production of butanol--an important chemical feedstock and potential fuel additive or
replacement. C. beijerinckii is an attractive microorganism for strain design to improve
butanol production because it (i) naturally produces the highest recorded butanol
concentrations as a byproduct of fermentation; and (ii) can co-ferment pentose and hexose
sugars (the primary products from lignocellulosic hydrolysis). Interrogating C. beijerinckii …

(590a) Metabolic network reconstruction and genome-scale model of butanol-producing strain
clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 — Providence … (590a) Metabolic network reconstruction
and genome-scale model of butanol-producing strain clostridium beijerinckii NCIMB 8052 …