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Novel approach to engineer strains for simultaneous sugar utilization.
Metabolic engineering - 1 Nov 2013
Gawand Pratish, Hyland Patrick, Ekins Andrew, Martin Vincent J J, Mahadevan Radhakrishnan
Abstract excerpt
Use of lignocellulosic biomass as a second generation feedstock in the biofuels industry is a pressing challenge. Among other difficulties in using lignocellulosic biomass, one major challenge is the optimal utilization of both 6-carbon (glucose) and 5-carbon (xylose) sugars by industrial microorganisms. Most industrial microorganisms preferentially utilize glucose over xylose owing to the regulatory phenomenon...
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