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Use of catabolite repression mutants for fermentation of sugar mixtures to ethanol.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Jul 2001
Nichols N N, Dien B S, Bothast R J
Abstract excerpt
Use of agricultural biomass, other than corn-starch, to produce fuel ethanol requires a microorganism that can ferment the mixture of sugars derived from hemicellulose. Escherichia coli metabolizes a wide range of substrates and has been engineered to produce ethanol in high yield from sugar mixtures. E. coli metabolizes glucose in preference to other sugars and, as a result, utilization of the pentoses in...
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