<p>The depletion of fossil resources and an ever-growing human population create an increasing demand for the development of sustainable processes for the utilization of renewable resources. As autotrophic microorganisms offer numerous metabolic pathways for the fixation of carbon dioxide and the metabolic utilization of light, electricity and inorganic energy donors, they are expected to play a pivotal role in an emerging carbon neutral society. </p> <p>This text-book presents the metabolic principles of autotrophy and current efforts for their utilization in biotechnology, including photoautotrophic, chemolithoautotrophic and electroautotrophic organisms. It outlines how modern molecular biology and process engineering create technologies that allow to use industrial off-gases and inorganic energy for the synthesis of bio-based plastics, materials and other chemical products. </p> <p>The text-book is ideally suited for students in advanced graduate and master courses and offers a reference for PhD students, engineers, chemists, biologists and all with an interests in biotechnology and renewable resources. </p>
Author(s): Robert Kourist, Sandy Schmidt
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 414
City: Berlin
Contents
List of authors
Chapter 1 A short recapitulation of the autotrophic metabolism
Chapter 2 Metabolic engineering of microbes
Chapter 3 Protein engineering
Chapter 4 Gas fermentation
Chapter 5 Introduction to autotrophic cultivation of microalgae in photobioreactors
Chapter 6 Synthetic biology of cyanobacteria
Chapter 7 Algal biotechnology
Chapter 8 Biocatalytic applications of autotrophic organisms
Chapter 9 Photocatalysis to promote cell-free biocatalytic reactions
Chapter 10 Electroautotrophs: feeding microbes with current for CO2 fixation
Chapter 11 Cupriavidus necator – a broadly applicable aerobic hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium
Chapter 12 Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) as renewable resource
Chapter 13 Applications of mixed microbial cultures in industrial biotechnology
Chapter 14 Economic framework of autotrophic processes
Index
