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Butanol production from renewable biomass: Rediscovery of metabolic pathways and metabolic engineering

  1. Yu-Sin Jang1,†,
  2. Joungmin Lee1,†,
  3. Alok Malaviya1,
  4. Do Young Seung3,
  5. Jung Hee Cho3,
  6. Prof. Sang Yup Lee1,2,*

Article first published online: 5 AUG 2011

DOI: 10.1002/biot.201100059

Issue

Biotechnology Journal

Biotechnology Journal

Special Issue: Industrial Biotechnology

Volume 7, Issue 2, pages 186–198, February 2012

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Jang, Y.-S., Lee, J., Malaviya, A., Seung, D. Y., Cho, J. H. and Lee, S. Y. (2012), Butanol production from renewable biomass: Rediscovery of metabolic pathways and metabolic engineering. Biotechnology Journal, 7: 186–198. doi: 10.1002/biot.201100059

Author Information

  1. 1

    Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 Program), BioProcess Engineering Research Center, Center for Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology, Institute for the BioCentury, KAIST, Republic of Korea

  2. 2

    Department of Bio and Brain Engineering and Bioinformatics Research Center, KAIST, Republic of Korea

  3. 3

    GS Caltex Corporation Value Creation Center, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

*Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305–701, Republic of Korea

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 3 FEB 2012
  2. Article first published online: 5 AUG 2011
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 4 JUL 2011
  4. Manuscript Revised: 21 JUN 2011
  5. Manuscript Received: 6 MAY 2011

Funded by

  • Advanced Biomass R&D Center of Korea. Grant Number: ABC-2010-0029799
  • Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Grant Number: R32-2008-000-10142-0
  • GS Caltex
  • BioFuelChem
  • KAIST

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