Hideki Fukuda

TL;DR: Biodiesel (fatty acid methyl esters), which is derived from triglycerides by transesterification with methanol, has attracted considerable attention during the past decade as a renewable, biodegradable, and nontoxic fuel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted continuous methanolysis of vegetable oil by an enzymatic process, which was conducted by adding methanol stepwise to avoid lipase inactivation.

TL;DR: A whole-cell biocatalyst with the ability to induce synergistic and sequential cellulose-degradation reaction was constructed through codisplay of three types of cellulolytic enzyme on the cell surface of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, indicating that simultaneous and synergistic saccharification and fermentation of amorphous cellulose to ethanol can be efficiently accomplished.

TL;DR: A three-step methanolysis was developed by which over 95% of the oil triacylglycerols (TAG) were converted to their corresponding methyl esters (ME) by Candida antarctica lipase.

TL;DR: The construction of a novel cellulose-degrading yeast strain by genetically codisplaying two cellulolytic enzymes on the cell surface of Saccharomyces cerevisiae indicates that efficient simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of cellulose to ethanol are carried out by a recombinant yeast cells displaying cellulolytics enzymes.