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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2014

Fatty Acid-Derived Biofuels and Chemicals Production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Yongjin J Zhou, Nicolaas A Buijs, Verena Siewers, Jens Nielsen

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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 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Undecane production by cold-adapted bacteria from Antarctica.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2020
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  12. Oleaginicity of the yeast strainBiotechnology for biofuels · 2018
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  17. Glucose-mediated regulation of glycerol uptake inEngineering in life sciences · 2017
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  20. Engineering the fatty acid metabolic pathway inMetabolic engineering communications · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yongjin J ZhouDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology , Gothenburg , Sweden.
Nicolaas A BuijsDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology , Gothenburg , Sweden.
Verena SiewersDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology , Gothenburg , Sweden.
Jens NielsenDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology , Gothenburg , Sweden.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Volatile energy costs and environmental concerns have spurred interest in the development of alternative, renewable, sustainable, and cost-effective energy resources. Environment-friendly processes involving microbes can be used to synthesize advanced biofuels. These fuels have the potential to replace fossil fuels in supporting high-power demanding machinery such as aircrafts and trucks. From an engineering perspective, the pathway for fatty acid biosynthesis is an attractive route for the production of advanced fuels such as fatty acid ethyl esters, fatty alcohols, and alkanes. The robustness and excellent accessibility to molecular genetics make the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae a suitable host for the purpose of bio-manufacturing. Recent advances in metabolic engineering, as well as systems and synthetic biology, have now provided the opportunity to engineer yeast metabolism for the production of fatty acid-derived fuels and chemicals.

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alkanes/alkenefatty acid ethyl esterfatty acid metabolismfatty alcoholyeast

Identifiers

PMID25225637
PMCPMC4150446

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