Metabolic engineering of the cellulolytic thermophilic fungus Myceliophthora thermophila to produce ethanol from cellobiose

Abstract Background Cellulosic biomass is a promising resource for bioethanol production. However, various sugars in plant biomass hydrolysates including cellodextrins, cellobiose, glucose, xylose, and arabinose, are poorly fermented by microbes. The commonly used ethanol-producing microbe Saccharom...

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Main Authors: Jinyang Li, Yongli Zhang, Jingen Li, Tao Sun, Chaoguang Tian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:Biotechnology for Biofuels
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-020-1661-y