3Engineered Microbial Systems for the Production of Fuels and Industrially Important Chemicals
Sushma Chauhan, Balasubramanian Velramar, Sneha Kumari, Anushri Keshri, Shalini Pandey, Shivam Pandey, Tanushree Baldeo Madavi, Vargobi Mukherjee, Meenakshi Jha and Pamidimarri D. V. N. Sudheer*
Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Abstract
The rise in global energy demands and depletion of fossil petro-fuel stocks is making mankind look for alternative green fuels and chemical feedstocks. Although bio-based green technologies are available for the production of biofuels and various commodity chemicals, still, industries are resistant to implement them for production on an industrial scale because of productivity and scale-up cost. The understanding of the molecular infrastructure in the microbial system for the production of fuels and various chemicals provided us new tools for engineering cells for the production of the desired product in engineered non-native hosts. Moreover, productivity could also be enhanced by implementing genetic engineering tools in the native host cells. In this chapter, the efforts are made to provide comprehensive information on the various engineering strategies implemented for the production of biofuels and commodity chemicals in various host systems and their prospective future in scale-up to industrial-scale will be discussed.
Keywords: Biofuels, bioengineering, chemicals, metabolic engineering, synthetic ...
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