Toward industrial C8 production: oxygen intrusion drives renewable <i>n</i> -caprylate production from ethanol and acetate <i>via</i> intermediate metabolite production
Kurt Gemeinhardt, Byoung Seung Jeon, Jean Népomuscène Ntihuga, Han Wang, Caroline Schlaiß, Timo N. Lucas, Irina Bessarab, Nicolas Nalpas, Nanqing Zhou, Joseph G. Usack, Daniel H. Huson, Rohan B. H. Williams, Boris Maček, Ludmilla Aristilde, Largus T. Angenent
Abstract
A simplified open culture chain elongation process with ethanol and acetate to produce renewable n -caprylate without adding yeast extract showed a trophic hierarchy between aerobic, facultative anaerobic, and fully anaerobic microbial species.
Topics & Concepts
Production (economics)EthanolChemistryMetaboliteEthanol fuelOxygenPulp and paper industryBiochemical engineeringOrganic chemistryBiochemistryEconomicsEngineeringMicroeconomicsMicrobial Metabolic Engineering and BioproductionBiofuel production and bioconversionEnzyme Catalysis and Immobilization