Yeast synthetic biology advances biofuel production
Review article, 2022

Increasing concerns of environmental impacts and global warming calls for urgent need to switch from use of fossil fuels to renewable technologies. Biofuels represent attractive alternatives of fossil fuels and have gained continuous attentions. Through the use of synthetic biology it has become possible to engineer microbial cell factories for efficient biofuel production in a more precise and efficient manner. Here, we review advances on yeast-based biofuel production. Following an overview of synthetic biology impacts on biofuel production, we review recent advancements on the design, build, test, learn steps of yeast-based biofuel production, and end with discussion of challenges associated with use of synthetic biology for developing novel processes for biofuel production.

yeast

synthetic biology

biofuel production

nonhuman

review

Author

Zihe Liu

Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Junyang Wang

Beijing University of Chemical Technology

Jens B Nielsen

Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Beijing University of Chemical Technology

BioInnovation Institute

Current Opinion in Microbiology

1369-5274 (ISSN) 18790364 (eISSN)

Vol. 65 33-39

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Renewable Bioenergy Research

Bioenergy

Energy Systems

Areas of Advance

Energy

DOI

10.1016/j.mib.2021.10.010

PubMed

34739924

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12/2/2021