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ArticleJournal of biological research (Thessalonike, Greece)2020

Metabolic engineering of

Yujin Cao, Hui Mu, Jing Guo, Hui Liu, Rubing Zhang, Wei Liu, Mo Xian, Huizhou Liu

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Article in Journal of biological research (Thessalonike, Greece), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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

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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Endogenous Ethanol Metabolism and Development of MASLD-MASH.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  9. Perspectives for Using COBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yujin Cao1CAS Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101 China.ORCID 0000-0001-5561-2731
Hui Mu2Energy Research Institute, Shandong Key Laboratory of Biomass Gasification Technology, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, China.
Jing Guo1CAS Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101 China.
Hui Liu1CAS Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101 China.
Rubing Zhang1CAS Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101 China.
Wei Liu1CAS Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101 China.
Mo Xian1CAS Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101 China.
Huizhou Liu1CAS Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101 China.
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNQilu University of Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe fuel ethanol industry has made tremendous progress in the last decades. Ethanol can be obtained by fermentation using a variety of biomass materials as the feedstocks. However, few studies have been conducted on ethanol utilization by microorganisms. The price of petroleum-derived ethanol, easily made by the hydrolysis of ethylene, is even lower than that of bioethanol. If ethanol can be metabolized by microorganisms to produce value-added chemicals, it will open a new door for the utilization of inexpensive ethanol resources.

resultsWe constructed an engineered

conclusionsThis study demonstrated the possibility of using ethanol as the carbon source by engineered

Indexed as

Alcohol dehydrogenaseAldehyde dehydrogenaseEscherichia coliEthanol utilizationMevalonic acid

Identifiers

PMID31993378
PMCPMC6975068
OpenAlexW3011104163

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