Engineering microbial pathways for production of bio-based chemicals from lignocellulosic sugars: current status and perspectives.

ABSTRACT: Lignocellulose is the most abundant biomass on earth with an annual production of about 2 × 10¹¹ tons. It is an inedible renewable carbonaceous resource that is very rich in pentose and hexose sugars. The ability of microorganisms to use lignocellulosic sugars can be exploited for the production of biofuels and chemicals, and their concurrent biotechnological processes could advantageously replace petrochemicals' processes in a medium to long term, sustaining the emerging of a new economy based on bio-based products from renewable carbon sources. One of the major issues to reach this objective is to rewire the microbial metabolism to optimally configure conversion of these lignocellulosic-derived sugars into bio-based products in a sustainable and competitive manner. Systems' me

SUBMITTER: Francois JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7341569 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature