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Fermentative butanol production by clostridia

Overview of attention for article published in Biotechnology & Bioengineering, August 2008
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Title
Fermentative butanol production by clostridia
Published in
Biotechnology & Bioengineering, August 2008
DOI 10.1002/bit.22003
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Authors

Sang Yup Lee, Jin Hwan Park, Seh Hee Jang, Lars K. Nielsen, Jaehyun Kim, Kwang S. Jung

Abstract

Butanol is an aliphatic saturated alcohol having the molecular formula of C(4)H(9)OH. Butanol can be used as an intermediate in chemical synthesis and as a solvent for a wide variety of chemical and textile industry applications. Moreover, butanol has been considered as a potential fuel or fuel additive. Biological production of butanol (with acetone and ethanol) was one of the largest industrial fermentation processes early in the 20th century. However, fermentative production of butanol had lost its competitiveness by 1960s due to increasing substrate costs and the advent of more efficient petrochemical processes. Recently, increasing demand for the use of renewable resources as feedstock for the production of chemicals combined with advances in biotechnology through omics, systems biology, metabolic engineering and innovative process developments is generating a renewed interest in fermentative butanol production. This article reviews biotechnological production of butanol by clostridia and some relevant fermentation and downstream processes. The strategies for strain improvement by metabolic engineering and further requirements to make fermentative butanol production a successful industrial process are also discussed.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 5 <1%
United Kingdom 5 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
United States 4 <1%
Malaysia 2 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
China 2 <1%
India 2 <1%
Other 13 1%
Unknown 897 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 190 20%
Student > Master 165 18%
Researcher 134 14%
Student > Bachelor 134 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 52 6%
Other 133 14%
Unknown 130 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 259 28%
Engineering 160 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 127 14%
Chemical Engineering 77 8%
Chemistry 49 5%
Other 100 11%
Unknown 166 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 August 2023.
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#2,439,383
of 25,394,764 outputs
Outputs from Biotechnology & Bioengineering
#168
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Outputs of similar age
#6,796
of 94,622 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biotechnology & Bioengineering
#5
of 56 outputs
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