Cofactor Specificity of the Bifunctional Alcohol and Aldehyde Dehydrogenase (AdhE) in Wild-Type and Mutant Clostridium thermocellum and Thermoanaerobacteriumsaccharolyticum

• Published in: Journal of bacteriology Vol. 197; no. 15; pp. 2610 - 2619
• Main Authors: Zheng, Tianyong, Olson, Daniel G., Tian, Liang, Bomble, Yannick J., Himmel, Michael E., Lo, Jonathan, Hon, Shuen, Shaw, A. Joe, van Dijken, Johannes P., Lynd, Lee R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.08.2015

ABSTRACT Clostridium thermocellum and Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum are thermophilic bacteria that have been engineered to produce ethanol from the cellulose and hemicellulose fractions of biomass, respectively. Although engineered strains of T. saccharolyticum produce ethanol with a yield o...