Bioethanol metabolic engineering

Takeda, H., Yoneyama, F., Kawai, S., Hashimoto, W., Murata, K. Bioethanol production from marine biomass alginate by metabolically engineered bacteria. Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 2575-2581 (2011)... 

The most prominent product in the biorefineries nowadays is bioethanol with a global production volume over 20 billion gallons (or 75 billion liters) in 2011 (Alternative Fuels Data Center, 2013). Huge efforts in research and development are on the way to broaden the product portfolio of the biorefineries in the future. Screening for new production strains in nature, or microorganisms accessible for metabolic engineering for directed biosynthesis of bioproducts, or a combination of... 

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Bro, C., Regenberg, B., Forster, J., Nielsen, J. In silico aided metabolic engineering oYSaccharomyces cerevisiae for improved bioethanol production. Metab Eng. 2006, 8, 102-111. 

The aim of this section is to define the state of the art for bioethanol production worldwide based on the raw materials employed and the sustainability of the industry thus description and challenges in processing, industrial methods, metabolic pathways, genetically engineering strains, etc., have been already exteisively covered by different authors (Luque et al., 2011 Koutinas et al., 2014). 

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