A nascent cellulosic ethanol industry is struggling to become cost-competitive against corn ethanol and gasoline. Millions of dollars are spent on nitrogen supplements to make up for the low nitrogen content of the cellulosic feedstock. Here we show for the first time to our knowledge that the ethanol-producing bacterium, Zymomonas mobilis, can use N2 gas in lieu of traditional nitrogen supplem...

this work presents a control engineering perspective of ethanol production from biomass. The bacterium Zymomonas mobilis represents an important microorganism used for this purpose but it makes the fermentation process presents high nonlinearities. Last years this continuous fermentation process has been studied and several state estimation and linear and nonlinear control tools have been devel...

C57Bl/10 male mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni were distributed into mixed, prophylactic and curative groups. A culture of Zymomonas mobilis was orally administered to mice. A 61% protection from the infection was observed in the curative group (p <0.05). Histopathological study of the livers and intestines showed similar results.

The binding of thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) to several enzymes has been determined by measuring cofactordependent activity after passage of each enzyme through a column of Sephadex G-25 to remove non-protein-bound cofactors. TPP was found to be bound irreversibly to yeast and Zymomonas pyruvate decarboxylases, Aerobacter (Yacetolactate synthetase, and Escherichia glyoxylate carboligase. Cofacto...