Production of alkanes from CO₂ by engineered bacteria.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microbial biosynthesis of alkanes is considered a promising method for the sustainable production of drop-in fuels and chemicals. Carbon dioxide would be an ideal carbon source for these production systems, but efficient production of long carbon chains from CO₂ is difficult to achieve in a single organism. A potential solution is to employ acetogenic bacteria for the reduction of CO₂ to acetate, and engineer a second organism to convert the acetate into long-chain hydrocarbons.

Results

In this study, we demonstrate alkane production from CO₂ by a system combining the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii and a non-native alkane producer Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 engineered for alkane production. Nine synthetic two-step alka

SUBMITTER: Lehtinen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6102805 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature