Biodiesel biorefinery: opportunities and challenges for microbial production of fuels and chemicals from glycerol waste

JRM Almeida, LCL Fávaro, BF Quirino - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2012 - Springer
The considerable increase in biodiesel production worldwide in the last 5 years resulted in a
stoichiometric increased coproduction of crude glycerol. As an excess of crude glycerol has …

[HTML][HTML] Genome and metabolic engineering in non-conventional yeasts: current advances and applications

AK Löbs, C Schwartz, I Wheeldon - Synthetic and systems biotechnology, 2017 - Elsevier
Microbial production of chemicals and proteins from biomass-derived and waste sugar
streams is a rapidly growing area of research and development. While the model yeast …

Advances and prospects in metabolic engineering of Zymomonas mobilis

X Wang, Q He, Y Yang, J Wang, K Haning, Y Hu… - Metabolic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biorefinery of biomass-based biofuels and biochemicals by microorganisms is a competitive
alternative of traditional petroleum refineries. Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen …

Refactoring the silent spectinabilin gene cluster using a plug-and-play scaffold

Z Shao, G Rao, C Li, Z Abil, Y Luo… - ACS synthetic biology, 2013 - ACS Publications
Natural products (secondary metabolites) are a rich source of compounds with important
biological activities. Eliciting pathway expression is always challenging but extremely …

Progress toward improving ethanol production through decreased glycerol generation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by metabolic and genetic engineering …

MP Naghshbandi, M Tabatabaei, M Aghbashlo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bioethanol, a prominent biofuel mostly produced industrially by the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, has been among the main pillars of sustainable development in the …

Pentose metabolism and conversion to biofuels and high-value chemicals in yeasts

J Ruchala, AA Sibirny - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2021 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Optimizing Ethanol Production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures through Machine Learning-Guided Combinatorial Promoter …

P Khamwachirapithak, K Sae-Tang… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bioethanol has gained popularity in recent decades as an ecofriendly alternative to fossil
fuels due to increasing concerns about global climate change. However, economically …

Bioconversion of crude glycerol feedstocks into ethanol by Pachysolen tannophilus

X Liu, PR Jensen, M Workman - Bioresource technology, 2012 - Elsevier
Glycerol, the by-product of biodiesel production, is considered as a waste by biodiesel
producers. This study demonstrated the potential of utilising the glycerol surplus through …

Engineering Yarrowia lipolytica towards food waste bioremediation: production of fatty acid ethyl esters from vegetable cooking oil

TK Ng, AQ Yu, H Ling, NKP Juwono, WJ Choi… - Journal of bioscience …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEEs) can potentially be used as biodiesel, which provides a
renewable alternative to petroleum-derived diesel. FAEEs are primarily produced via …

[HTML][HTML] Do engenho à biorrefinaria: a usina de açúcar como empreendimento industrial para a geração de produtos bioquímicos e biocombustíveis

JAR Rodrigues - Química nova, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
A sugar cane mill is at the present moment a modest biorefinery producing few products
such as sugar, ethanol and polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB). In the near future, this mill can …