Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Inst.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Inst.; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Joint BioEnergy Inst.; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Bioengineering, QB3 Inst.; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, QB3 Inst.
The risks of maintaining current CO2 emission trends have led to interest in producing biofuels using engineered microbes. Microbial biofuels reduce emissions because CO2 produced by fuel combustion is offset by CO2 captured by growing biomass, which is later used as feedstock for biofuel fermentation. Hydrocarbons found in petroleum fuels share striking similarity with biological lipids. Here in this paper we review synthetic metabolic pathways based on fatty acid and isoprenoid metabolism to produce alkanes and other molecules suitable as biofuels. Lastly, we further discuss engineering strategies to optimize engineered biosynthetic routes, as well as the potential of synthetic biology for sustainable manufacturing.
d’Espaux, Leo, et al. "Synthetic biology for microbial production of lipid-based biofuels." Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, vol. 29, no. C, Oct. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.09.009
d’Espaux, Leo, Mendez-Perez, Daniel, Li, Rachel, & Keasling, Jay D. (2015). Synthetic biology for microbial production of lipid-based biofuels. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 29(C). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.09.009
d’Espaux, Leo, Mendez-Perez, Daniel, Li, Rachel, et al., "Synthetic biology for microbial production of lipid-based biofuels," Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 29, no. C (2015), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.09.009
@article{osti_1379004,
author = {d’Espaux, Leo and Mendez-Perez, Daniel and Li, Rachel and Keasling, Jay D.},
title = {Synthetic biology for microbial production of lipid-based biofuels},
annote = {The risks of maintaining current CO2 emission trends have led to interest in producing biofuels using engineered microbes. Microbial biofuels reduce emissions because CO2 produced by fuel combustion is offset by CO2 captured by growing biomass, which is later used as feedstock for biofuel fermentation. Hydrocarbons found in petroleum fuels share striking similarity with biological lipids. Here in this paper we review synthetic metabolic pathways based on fatty acid and isoprenoid metabolism to produce alkanes and other molecules suitable as biofuels. Lastly, we further discuss engineering strategies to optimize engineered biosynthetic routes, as well as the potential of synthetic biology for sustainable manufacturing.},
doi = {10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.09.009},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1379004},
journal = {Current Opinion in Chemical Biology},
issn = {ISSN 1367-5931},
number = {C},
volume = {29},
place = {United States},
publisher = {Elsevier},
year = {2015},
month = {10}}
Wood, Richard A.; Vellinga, Michael; Thorpe, Robert
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 361, Issue 1810https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2003.1245