Biofuels : From Microbes to Molecules.

Intro -- Contents -- Current Books of Interest -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1: Metabolic Engineering: Key for Improving Biological Hydrogen Production -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Metabolic engineering of bacterial systems for hydrogen production by dark fermentation -- 1.3 Metabolic engineering of green algae, cyanobacteria, and bacteria for improving hydrogen production -- 1.4 Future directions -- 2: Biogas-producing Microbes and Biomolecules -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Biogas microbiology -- 2.3 Biomethane -- 2.4 Molecular methods for the study and control of biogas production -- 2.5 Biogas from unconventional substrates -- 2.6 Future trends: algae -- 2.7 Conclusions -- 3: Engineering Recombinant Organisms for Next-generation Ethanol Production -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Overview of all microbial technologies for first- (1G) and second-generation (2G) ethanol production -- 3.3 Xylose fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae -- 3.4 Hardening of S. cerevisiae against inhibitors formed during lignocellulose pretreatment -- 3.5 CBP application to soluble and insoluble (raw, uncooked) starch fermentation -- 3.6 Conversion of cellulose to ethanol by S. cerevisiae in a CBP configuration -- 3.7 Mining microbial diversity for novel enzymes for CBP application to starch and lignocellulose, including genomic and metagenomic and/or transcriptomic libraries as sources of novel enzymes/activities -- 3.8 Process configurations for integration of 1G and 2G processes -- 3.9 Discussion and conclusions -- 4: Production of Biobutanol, from ABE to Syngas Fermentation -- 4.1 Butanol - commodity chemical and advanced biofuel -- 4.2 Classic acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation with solventogenic clostridia -- 4.3 Engineering of non-natural butanol producers and synthetic pathways -- 4.4 Future trends - butanol production from greenhouse gases CO2 and/or CO.

5: Higher Chain Alcohols from Non-fermentative Pathways -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Steps to production -- 5.3 Fermentative alcohol production -- 5.4 2-Keto acid-based alcohols -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6: Isoprene-derived Biofuels from Engineered Microbes -- 6.1 Classes of isoprenoid compounds -- 6.2 Metabolic pathway and host engineering to optimize isoprenoid-precursors biosynthetic pathways -- 6.3 Conversions of isoprenoid precursors to fuel compounds -- 6.4 Future trends in isoprene-derived biofuels -- 7: Engineering Microbial Fatty Acid Biosynthetic Pathways to Make Advanced Biofuels -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Current status of biodiesel production -- 7.3 Motivation for engineering fatty acid metabolism -- 7.4 Brief review of fatty acid metabolism -- 7.5 Regulation of fatty acid synthesis and degradation -- 7.6 Genetic engineering of bacteria to improve free fatty acid production -- 7.7 Genetic engineering to improve fatty alcohol production -- 7.8 Genetic engineering to improve fatty acid methyl/ethyl ester production -- 7.9 Genetic engineering to improve fatty alkane/alkene production -- 7.10 Future perspectives -- 8: Biofuel Production by Genetically Engineered Cyanobacteria -- 8.1 Overview of Cyanobacteria -- 8.2 Molecular tools for the genetic engineering of cyanobacteria -- 8.3 Omics of Cyanobacteria -- 8.4 Biofuel production by genetically engineered cyanobacteria -- 8.5 Future trends -- Index.

In this book a panel of international experts reviews the most important hot-topics in this area to provide a timely overview. The production of different biofuel molecules including hydrogen, methane, ethanol, butanol, higher chain alcohols, isoprenoids and fatty acid derivatives, from genetically engineered microbes, is comprehensively covered. Special focus is given to the use of metabolic engineering of microbes, including bacteria, yeast and microalgae, to enhance biofuel production. In addition authors discuss current research progress, technical challenges and future development trends for biofuel production. Essential reading for research scientists, graduate students, and other specialists interested in microbial biofuels, the book is also recommended reading for environmental microbiologists, chemists and engineers.

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