Respiration is essential for aerobic growth of Zymomonas mobilis ZM4.

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A key to producing next-generation biofuels is to engineer microbes that efficiently convert non-food materials into drop-in fuels, and to engineer microbes effectively, we must understand their metabolism thoroughly. Zymomonas mobilis is a bacterium that is a promising candidate biofuel producer, but its metabolism remains poorly understood, especially its metabolism when exposed to oxygen. Although Z. mobilis respires with oxygen, its aerobic growth is poor, and disruption of genes related to respiration counterintuitively improves aerobic growth. This unusual result has sparked decades of research and debate regarding the function of respiration in Z. mobilis. Here, we used a new set of mutants to determine that respiration is essential for aerobi

SUBMITTER: Felczak MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10746213 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature