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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2014

Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Production of Mixed-Acid Fermentation End Products.

Andreas H Förster, Johannes Gescher

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

56 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Endogenous Ethanol Metabolism and Development of MASLD-MASH.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Endogenous ethanol production in health and disease.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Andreas H FörsterInstitute of Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Karlsruhe , Germany.
Johannes GescherInstitute of Applied Biosciences, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Karlsruhe , Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mixed-acid fermentation end products have numerous applications in biotechnology. This is probably the main driving force for the development of multiple strains that are supposed to produce individual end products with high yields. The process of engineering Escherichia coli strains for applied production of ethanol, lactate, succinate, or acetate was initiated several decades ago and is still ongoing. This review follows the path of strain development from the general characteristics of aerobic versus anaerobic metabolism over the regulatory machinery that enables the different metabolic routes. Thereafter, major improvements for broadening the substrate spectrum of E. coli toward cheap carbon sources like molasses or lignocellulose are highlighted before major routes of strain development for the production of ethanol, acetate, lactate, and succinate are presented.

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acetatecarbon sourceE. coliethanollactatemixed-acid fermentationsuccinate

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PMID25152889
PMCPMC4126452

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