Metabolic responses to ethanol and butanol in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microalgae have been demonstrated to be among the most promising phototrophic species for producing renewable biofuels and chemicals. Ethanol and butanol are clean energy sources with good chemical and physical properties as alternatives to gasoline. However, biosynthesis of these two biofuels has not been achieved due to low tolerance of algal cells to ethanol or butanol.

Results

With an eye to circumventing these problems in the future and engineering the robust alcohol-producing microalgal hosts, we investigated the metabolic responses of the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to ethanol and butanol. Using a quantitative proteomics approach with iTRAQ-LC-MS/MS technologies, we detected the levels of 3077 proteins; 827 and 730 of which were differ

SUBMITTER: Jiang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5646117 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature