Microbial bioproduction of chemicals, proteins, and primary metabolites from cheap carbon
sources is currently an advancing area in industrial research. The model yeast …

Metabolic engineering is the enabling science of development of efficient cell factories for
the production of fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food ingredients through microbial …

Efficient xylose utilization is one of the most important pre-requisites for developing an
economic microbial conversion process of terrestrial lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels …

Efficient and rapid fermentation of all sugars present in cellulosic hydrolysates is essential
for economic conversion of renewable biomass into fuels and chemicals. Xylose is one of …

Rational approaches to modifying cells to make molecules of interest are of substantial
economic and scientific interest. Most of these efforts aim at the production of native …

This review summarizes progress in the construction of efficient yeast ethanol producers
from glucose/sucrose and lignocellulose. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the major industrial …

Highlights•Global experimental and modeling studies show effects of cofactors.•Ferredoxin
reactions are energetically efficient routes to reduced products.•Protein engineering of …

The sustainability revolution is the defining challenge of our time to meet increasing needs
in the energy− food− water nexus without compromising the ability of next generations. To …

We focus on the application of constraint-based methodologies and, more specifically, flux
balance analysis in the field of metabolic engineering, and enumerate recent developments …

Pentose sugars are widespread in nature and two of them, D-xylose and L-arabinose
belong to the most abundant sugars being the second and third by abundance sugars in dry …