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1 online resource (xx, 386 pages) |
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Cover ; Half title ; Title ; Copyright ; Preface ; Contents; Notations; 1. Background; 1. Current Status of Global Warming and Action Plan; 2. Attempts to Reduce Energy Consumption; 3. Alternative to Petroleum-based Fuels; 3.1 Nuclear power energy; 3.2 Wind energy; 3.3 Solar energy; 3.4 Other sources of renewable energy; 3.5 Grid energy storage and future perspectives of renewable energy sources ; 4. Bio-based Energy Generation for the Reduced CO2 Emission; 5. Biofuel and Biochemical Production from Biomass; 6. Brief Summary and the Outlook of the Book; References; 2. Pretreatment of Biomass |
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1. Introduction2. Various Pretreatments; 2.1 Physical pretreatment; 2.2 Biological pretreatment; 2.3 Chemical pretreatment; 2.4 Physiochemical pretreatment; 3. Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation (SSF); 4. Consolidated Biomass Processing (CBP); 5. Concluding Remarks; References; 3. Transport of Nutrients and Carbon Catabolite Repression for the Selective Carbon Sources the Selective Carbon Sources ; 1. Introduction; 2. Variety of Regulation Mechanisms ; 3. Porin Proteins in the Outer Membrane and their Regulation; 4. Transport of Carbohydrates and PTS |
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5. Carbohydrate Uptake by Various PTSs and without PTS6. Nitrogen PTS; 7. Carbon Catabolite Repression for the Selective Carbon Source Uptake; 8. CCR in other Bacteria than E. coli ; 9. Concluding Remarks; References; 4. Catabolite Regulation of the Main Metabolism; 1. Introduction; 2. Regulation of the Glycolytic Flux; 3. Enzyme Level Regulation of the Glycolysis; 4. Regulation of Pyruvate Kinase; 4.1 Regulation of Pyk expression by isozymes; 4.2 Effects of Pyk mutation on the metabolism; 5. Transcriptional Regulation of the Glycolysis |
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6. Overflow Metabolism and the Oxidative Stress Regulation7. Constraint on ATP Production by Respiration; 8. Respiratory Pathways and the Competition with Catabolic Transport ; 9. Coordination of the Metabolism by cAMP-Crp at Higher Catabolic Rate ; 10. Carbon Catabolite Repression; 10.1 Carbon catabolite repression in E. coli; 10.2 Catabolite regulation in Corynebacteria; 10.3 Catabolite regulation in Baccili; 10.4 Catabolite regulation in Clostridia; 11. Heteroginity of the Cell Population and CCR; 12. Carbon Storage Regulation; 12.1 Carbon storage regulation in E. coli |
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12.2 Carbon storage regulation in a variety of organisms13. Concluding Remarks; References; 5. Metabolic Regulation in Response to Growth Environment; 1. Introduction; 2. Nitrogen Regulation; 3. Sulfur Regulation; 4. Phosphate Regulation; 5. Metal Ion Regulation and Oxidative Stress Regulation; 6. Redox State Regulation; 7. Acid Shock Response ; 8. Heat Shock Stress Response; 9. Cold Shock Response; 10. Solvent Stress Regulation; 11. Osmoregulation; 12. Biofilm, Motility by Flagella, and Quorum Sensing; 13. Concluding Remarks; References |
Summary |
The global warming problem is becoming critical year by year, causing climate disaster all over the world, where it has been believed that the CO2 gas emitted from the factories and the burning of fossil fuels may be one of the reasons of global warming. Moreover, the global stock of fossil fuels is limited, and may run out soon within several tens of years. Although wind, geo-thermal, and tide energies have been considered as clean energy sources, those depend on the land or sea locations and subject to the climate change. Biofuel and biochemical production from renewable bio-resources has thus been paid recent attention from environmental protection and energy production points of view, where the current chemical and energy producing plants can be also utilized with slight modification. The so-called 1st generation biofuels have been produced from corn starch and sugarcane in particular in USA and Brazil. However, this causes the problem of the so-called "food and energy issues" as the production scale increases. The 2nd generation biofuel production from lingo-cellulosic biomass or wastes has thus been paid recent attention. However, it requires energy intensive pretreatment for the degradation of lingo-cellulosic biomass, and the fermentation is slow due to low growth rate, and thus the productivity of biofuels and bio-chemicals is low. The 3rd generation biofuel production from photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria and algae has been also paid attention, because such organisms can grow with only sun light and CO2 in the air, but the cell growth rate and thus the productivity of the fuels is significantly low. The main part or core of such production processes is the fermentation by micro-organisms. In particular, it is critical to properly understand the cell metabolism followed by the efficient metabolic engineering. The book gives comprehensive explanation of the cell metabolism and the metabolic regulation mechanisms of a variety of micro-organisms. Then the efficient metabolic engineering approaches are explained to properly design the microbial cell factories for the efficient cell growth and biofuel and biochemical production |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Subject |
Biomass chemicals.
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Microbial biotechnology.
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Cell metabolism -- Regulation.
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Biomass conversion.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Chemical & Biochemical.
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Biomass chemicals
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Biomass conversion
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Cell metabolism -- Regulation
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Microbial biotechnology
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781351650106 |
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1351650106 |
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9781498768382 |
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1498768385 |
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