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Metabolic engineering of yeast for production of fuels and chemicals

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Recent scientific progress in metabolic engineering of S. cerevisiae for the production of bioethanol, advanced biofuels, and chemicals is reviewed.
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This article is published in Current Opinion in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 292 citations till now.

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CRISPR/Cas9: a molecular Swiss army knife for simultaneous introduction of multiple genetic modifications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

TL;DR: The versatility of CRISPR/Cas9-based engineering of yeast is demonstrated by achieving simultaneous integration of a multigene construct combined with gene deletion and the simultaneous introduction of two single-nucleotide mutations at different loci.
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Altered sterol composition renders yeast thermotolerant

TL;DR: Adaptive laboratory evolution was used to select yeast strains with improved growth and ethanol production at ≥40°C, and a change in sterol composition was revealed, from ergosterol to fecosterol, caused by mutations in the C-5 sterol desaturase gene, and increased expression of genes involved in sterolsynthesis.
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Biological valorization of low molecular weight lignin

TL;DR: A brief summary of sources of lignin, methods of depolymerization, biological pathways for conversion of the lign in monomers and the analytical tools necessary for characterizing and evaluating key lignIn attributes are given.
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Cell-free metabolic engineering: biomanufacturing beyond the cell.

TL;DR: In the coming years, CFME will offer exciting opportunities to debug and optimize biosynthetic pathways, carry out design‐build‐test iterations without re‐engineering organisms, and perform molecular transformations when bioconversion yields, productivities, or cellular toxicity limit commercial feasibility.
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Metabolome, transcriptome and metabolic flux analysis of arabinose fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae

TL;DR: Elevated intracellular concentrations of pentose-phosphate-pathway intermediates and upregulation of TKL2 and YGR043c suggested an involvement of these genes in flux-controlling reactions in arabinose fermentation, which confirmed that the galactose transporter is essential for growth onArabinose.
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Systems biology of yeast: enabling technology for development of cell factories for production of advanced biofuels.

TL;DR: This review will cover the recent technological developments that support improvement of the advanced biofuels 1-butanol, biodiesels and jetfuels.
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Prospects for microbial biodiesel production

TL;DR: This work reviews both microbial approaches for renewable biodiesel production and evaluates the existing challenges in these two strategies.
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Improving L-arabinose utilization of pentose fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells by heterologous expression of L-arabinose transporting sugar transporters

TL;DR: Using a newly developed screening system, two heterologous sugar transporters from a yeast and a plant are identified which can support uptake and utilization of L-arabinose in L-Arabinose fermenting S. cerevisiae cells, especially at low L-ARabinose concentrations.
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