Enzymes in Biofuels Production
نویسندگان
چکیده
1Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, UAEU, Al-Ain 17555, UAE 2Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India 3Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand 4Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Malaysia, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 5Department of Grain Science and Industry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA 6Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32310-6046, USA 7Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Universita’ Degli Studi di Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
منابع مشابه
Ligninolytic enzymes: a biotechnological alternative for bioethanol production
Ligninolytic fungi and enzymes (i.e., laccase, manganese peroxidase, and lignin peroxidase) have been applied recently in the production of second-generation biofuels. This review contains the analysis of ligninolytic enzymes and their applications in second-generation biofuels. In here, each of the ligninolytic enzymes was described analyzing their structures, catalysis, and reaction mechanism...
متن کاملBioFuelDB: a database and prediction server of enzymes involved in biofuels production
BACKGROUND In light of the rapid decrease in fossils fuel reserves and an increasing demand for energy, novel methods are required to explore alternative biofuel production processes to alleviate these pressures. A wide variety of molecules which can either be used as biofuels or as biofuel precursors are produced using microbial enzymes. However, the common challenges in the industrial impleme...
متن کاملHigh-level expression of thermostable cellulolytic enzymes in tobacco transplastomic plants and their use in hydrolysis of an industrially pretreated Arundo donax L. biomass
BACKGROUND Biofuels production from plant biomasses is a complex multi-step process with important economic burdens. Several biotechnological approaches have been pursued to reduce biofuels production costs. The aim of the present study was to explore the production in tobacco plastome of three genes encoding (hemi)cellulolytic enzymes from thermophilic and hyperthermophilic bacterium and Archa...
متن کاملThe Viability of Biofuels in Developing Countries: Successes, Failures, and Challenges
In the last few decades, finding alternatives to fossil fuels has become a hot issue across all international frontiers. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shed light on the feasibility of using biofuels to meet the growing energy demand as well as to reduce CO2 emissions which are a major cause of global warming, especially in the transportation sector. The...
متن کاملAdvancing understanding of microbial bioenergy conversion processes by activity-based protein profiling
The development of renewable biofuels is a global priority, but success will require novel technologies that greatly improve our understanding of microbial systems biology. An approach with great promise in enabling functional characterization of microbes is activity-based protein profiling (ABPP), which employs chemical probes to directly measure enzyme function in discrete enzyme classes in v...
متن کاملThe challenge of enzyme cost in the production of lignocellulosic biofuels.
With the aim of understanding the contribution of enzymes to the cost of lignocellulosic biofuels, we constructed a techno-economic model for the production of fungal cellulases. We found that the cost of producing enzymes was much higher than that commonly assumed in the literature. For example, the cost contribution of enzymes to ethanol produced by the conversion of corn stover was found to ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 2011 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011