Highly efficient production of advanced biofuel by metabolically engineered microorganism
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 23:01
in Physics & Chemistry
A Korean research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, applied a systems metabolic engineering approach to improve the production of butanol through enhancing the performance of Clostridium acetobutylicum, one of the best known butanol-producing bacteria.