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ReviewBiotechnology for biofuels2016

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

Zhen Chen, Dehua Liu

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Review in Biotechnology for biofuels, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zhen ChenDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China ; Tsinghua Innovation Center in Dongguan, Dongguan, 523808 China.
Dehua LiuDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084 China ; Tsinghua Innovation Center in Dongguan, Dongguan, 523808 China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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. Converting crude glycerol into value-added products is important to increase the economic viability of the biofuel industry. Metabolic engineering of industrial strains to improve its performance and to enlarge the product spectrum of glycerol biotransformation process is highly important toward glycerol biorefinery. This review focuses on recent metabolic engineering efforts as well as challenges involved in the utilization of glycerol as feedstock for the production of fuels and chemicals, especially for the production of diols, organic acids and biofuels.

Indexed as

BiochemicalBiofuelBiorefineryGlycerolMetabolic engineering

Identifiers

PMID27729943
PMCPMC5048440

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