Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the utilization of ethanol

Abstract Background The 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-de...

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Main Authors: Yujin Cao, Hui Mu, Jing Guo, Hui Liu, Rubing Zhang, Wei Liu, Mo Xian, Huizhou Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Biological Research - Thessaloniki
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40709-020-0111-0