Utilization of the residual glycerol from biodiesel production for renewable energy generation

J McNutt, J Yang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
A rapid growth in biodiesel production has naturally led to a surplus of crude glycerol
generated. Due to the impurities present in the crude glycerol, expensive refining processes …

Toward glycerol biorefinery: metabolic engineering for the production of biofuels and chemicals from glycerol

Z Chen, D Liu - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2016 - Springer
As an inevitable by-product of the biofuel industry, glycerol is becoming an attractive
feedstock for biorefinery due to its abundance, low price and high degree of reduction …

Engineering new-to-nature biochemical conversions by combining fermentative metabolism with respiratory modules

H Schulz-Mirbach, JL Krüsemann, T Andreadaki… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Anaerobic microbial fermentations provide high product yields and are a cornerstone of
industrial bio-based processes. However, the need for redox balancing limits the array of …

Metabolic engineering approaches for scale-up of fermentative biohydrogen production–A review

IR Akaniro, AA Oladipo, EC Onwujekwe - International Journal of Hydrogen …, 2024 - Elsevier
Significant efforts are being made to produce biofuels to replace fossil fuels and address the
issues caused by global climate change. Due to its potential better conversion efficiency to …

Metabolic engineering for the optimization of hydrogen production in Escherichia coli: A review

A Valle, D Cantero, J Bolívar - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is a potential sustainable energy source and it could become an alternative to
fossil fuel combustion, thus helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The biological …

Escherichia coli Dcu C4-dicarboxylate transporters dependent proton and potassium fluxes and FOF1-ATPase activity during glucose fermentation at pH 7.5

L Karapetyan, G Mikoyan, A Vassilian, A Valle… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
During fermentation in Escherichia coli succinate is transported via Dcu transporters,
encoded dcuA, dcuB, dcuC and dcuD although the role of DcuD protein has not been …

[HTML][HTML] Enabling anaerobic growth of Escherichia coli on glycerol in defined minimal medium using acetate as redox sink

S Boecker, S Espinel-Ríos, K Bettenbrock, S Klamt - Metabolic Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Glycerol has become an attractive substrate for bio-based production processes. However,
Escherichia coli, an established production organism in the biotech industry, is not able to …

External succinate and potassium ions influence Dcu dependent FOF1-ATPase activity and H+ flux of Escherichia coli at different pHs

G Mikoyan, L Karapetyan, A Vassilian… - Journal of bioenergetics …, 2020 - Springer
During fermentation Escherichia coli transport succinate mainly via Dcu family carriers.
Current paper describes the role of externally added succinate on N'N' …

Improved glycerol to ethanol conversion by E. coli using a metagenomic fragment isolated from an anaerobic reactor

I Loaces, C Rodríguez, V Amarelle… - Journal of Industrial …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Crude glycerol obtained as a by-product of biodiesel production is a reliable feedstock with
the potential to be converted into reduced chemicals with high yields. It has been previously …

Fatty acid feedstocks enable a highly efficient glyoxylate‐TCA cycle for high‐yield production of β‐alanine

Y Miao, J Liu, X Wang, B Liu, W Liu, Y Tao - MLife, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metabolic engineering to produce tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle‐derived chemicals is
usually associated with problems of low production yield and impaired cellular metabolism …