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Zymomonas mobilis: a novel platform for future biorefineries

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He, Ming, Wu, Bo, Qin, Han, Ruan, Zhi, Tan, Fu, Wang, Jing, Shui, Zong, Dai, Li +5 more·2014·Biotechnology for Biofuels

Abstract

Biosynthesis of liquid fuels and biomass-based building block chemicals from microorganisms have been regarded as a competitive alternative route to traditional. Zymomonas mobilis possesses a number of desirable characteristics for its special Entner-Doudoroff pathway, which makes it an ideal platform for both metabolic engineering and commercial-scale production of desirable bio-products as the same as Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae based on consideration of future biomass biorefinery. Z. mobilis has been studied extensively on both fundamental and applied level, which will provide a basis for industrial biotechnology in the future. Furthermore, metabolic engineering of Z. mobilis for enhancing bio-ethanol production from biomass resources has been significantly promoted by different methods (i.e. mutagenesis, adaptive laboratory evolution, specific gene knock-out, and metabolic engineering). In addition, the feasibility of representative metabolites, i.e. sorbitol, bionic acid, levan, succinic acid, isobutanol, and isobutanol produced by Z. mobilis and the strategies for strain improvements are also discussed or highlighted in this paper. Moreover, this review will present some guidelines for future developments in the bio-based chemical production using Z. mobilis as a novel industrial platform for future biofineries.

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  • Z. mobilis naturally converts up to 96% of glucose into ethanol.

    “It naturally converts up to 96% of glucose into ethanol and can be engineered to produce other valuable bioproducts, such as isobutanol and isoprenoids (5–11).”

    From Physiological and metabolic responses of <i>Zymomonas mobilis</i> to lignocellulosic hydrolysate (2025) · cites this paper as [5]

    The Review’s strain-improvement section and the Conclusions describe Z. mobilis as an ethanol producer that uses glucose. Neither those passages nor the passages retrieved for “96%” establish that it naturally converts up to 96% of glucose into ethanol; the reported 98% theoretical yield concerns an engineered arabinose-fermenting strain, not natural glucose fermentation. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Z. mobilis can be engineered to produce other valuable bioproducts, such as isobutanol and isoprenoids.

    “It naturally converts up to 96% of glucose into ethanol and can be engineered to produce other valuable bioproducts, such as isobutanol and isoprenoids (5–11).”

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Authors
He, M., Wu, B., Qin, H., Ruan, Z., Tan, F., Wang, J., Shui, Z., Dai, L., Zhu, Q., Pan, K., Tang, X., Wang, W., & Hu, Q.
Affiliations
  • Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture (CN)
  • Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning (CN)
Venue
Biotechnology for Biofuels
Published
2014
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
101
ISSN
1754-6834 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2172228379
Cited by
203
References
178
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 3
FWCI
1.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Biotechnology for Biofuels (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Shandong University
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (201403019, 31000028)
  • Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (201403019)
  • Tarim University
  • Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest (201403019)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biotechnology › Biochemical and biochemical processes
Keywords
Zymomonas mobilis, Entner-Doudoroff pathway, metabolic engineering, bioethanol production, bio-based chemicals, sorbitol, levan, succinic acid, isobutanol, adaptive laboratory evolution, gene knockout, industrial biotechnology

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