Rhodotorula toruloides: an ideal microbial cell factory to produce oleochemicals, carotenoids, and other products

Y Zhao, B Song, J Li, J Zhang - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2022 - Springer
Requirement of clean energy sources urges us to find substitutes for fossil fuels.
Microorganisms provide an option to produce feedstock for biofuel production by utilizing …

Enhancing microbial lipids yield for biodiesel production by oleaginous yeast Lipomyces starkeyi fermentation: a review

L Zhang, JTE Lee, YS Ok, Y Dai, YW Tong - Bioresource technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The enhanced production of microbial lipids suitable for manufacturing biodiesel from
oleaginous yeast Lipomyces starkeyi is critically reviewed. Recent advances in several …

Big data mining, rational modification, and ancestral sequence reconstruction inferred multiple xylose isomerases for biorefinery

S Chen, Z Xu, B Ding, Y Zhang, S Liu, C Cai, M Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The isomerization of xylose to xylulose is considered the most promising approach to initiate
xylose bioconversion. Here, phylogeny-guided big data mining, rational modification, and …

[PDF][PDF] Codon optimization improves the prediction of xylose metabolism from gene content in budding yeasts

RL Nalabothu, KJ Fisher, AL LaBella… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Xylose is the second most abundant monomeric sugar in plant biomass. Consequently,
xylose catabolism is an ecologically important trait for saprotrophic organisms, as well as a …

Exploring yeast diversity to produce lipid-based biofuels from agro-forestry and industrial organic residues

MN Mota, P Múgica, I Sá-Correia - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Exploration of yeast diversity for the sustainable production of biofuels, in particular
biodiesel, is gaining momentum in recent years. However, sustainable, and economically …

Could termites be hiding a goldmine of obscure yet promising yeasts for energy crisis solutions based on aromatic wastes? A critical state-of-the-art review

SS Ali, R Al-Tohamy, TM Mohamed… - … for Biofuels and …, 2022 - Springer
Biodiesel is a renewable fuel that can be produced from a range of organic and renewable
feedstock including fresh or vegetable oils, animal fats, and oilseed plants. In recent years …

Engineering strategies to optimize lignocellulosic biorefineries

B Long, F Zhang, SY Dai, M Foston, YJ Tang… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Lignocellulosic biorefineries may be applied to produce value-added products, such as
chemicals, biofuels and bioplastics, from biomass, thereby reducing carbon emissions …

Crabtree/Warburg-like aerobic xylose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae

SB Lee, M Tremaine, M Place, L Liu, A Pier… - Metabolic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bottlenecks in the efficient conversion of xylose into cost-effective biofuels have limited the
widespread use of plant lignocellulose as a renewable feedstock. The yeast Saccharomyces …

A co-fermentation strategy with wood hydrolysate and crude glycerol to enhance the lipid accumulation in Rhodosporidium toruloides-1588

R Saini, CS Osorio-Gonzalez, K Hegde, SK Brar… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wood hydrolysate has been regarded as sustainable and renewable substrate to produce
microbial lipids, a potential feedstock for the biodiesel industry. Moreover, the major by …

Metabolic engineering of Halomonas bluephagenesis to metabolize xylose for poly-3-hydroxybutyrate production

B Tan, Y Zheng, H Yan, Y Liu, ZJ Li - Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Halomonas bluephagenesis is an essential host for next generation industrial biotechnology
(NGIB) due to its ability to grow under high-salt and alkali conditions. In this study, H …