Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29467394›Full record

ArticleScientific reports2018

Development of a high-throughput assay for rapid screening of butanologenic strains.

Chidozie Victor Agu, Stella M Lai, Victor Ujor, Pradip K Biswas, Andy Jones, Venkat Gopalan, Thaddeus Chukwuemeka Ezeji

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Metabolic engineering ofBiotechnology for biofuels · 2019
    Article
  3. Article
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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chidozie Victor AguDepartment of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, and Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), 305 Gerlaugh Hall, 1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH, 44691, USA.
Stella M LaiDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
Victor UjorBioenergy and Biological Waste Management Program, Agricultural Technical Institute, The Ohio State University, 1328, Dover Road, Wooster, OH, 44691, USA.
Pradip K BiswasDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
Andy JonesDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
Venkat GopalanDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
Thaddeus Chukwuemeka EzejiDepartment of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, and Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), 305 Gerlaugh Hall, 1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH, 44691, USA. ezeji.1@osu.edu.
The Ohio State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a Thermotoga hypogea (Th) alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)-dependent spectrophotometric assay for quantifying the amount of butanol in growth media, an advance that will facilitate rapid high-throughput screening of hypo- and hyper-butanol-producing strains of solventogenic Clostridium species. While a colorimetric nitroblue tetrazolium chloride-based assay for quantitating butanol in acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation broth has been described previously, we determined that Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) ADH used in this earlier study exhibits approximately 13-fold lower catalytic efficiency towards butanol than ethanol. Any Sc ADH-dependent assay for primary quantitation of butanol in an ethanol-butanol mixture is therefore subject to "ethanol interference". To circumvent this limitation and better facilitate identification of hyper-butanol-producing Clostridia, we searched the literature for native ADHs that preferentially utilize butanol over ethanol and identified Th ADH as a candidate. Indeed, recombinant Th ADH exhibited a 6-fold higher catalytic efficiency with butanol than ethanol, as measured using the reduction of NADP

Indexed as

Alcohol DehydrogenaseBiofuelsBiological AssayButanolsClostridiumCulture MediaEthanolFermentationNADPSaccharomyces cerevisiaeAlcohol DehydrogenaseBiofuelsButanolsCulture MediaEthanolNADP

Identifiers

PMID29467394
PMCPMC5821843
OpenAlexW2807553904

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.