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Effect of tungstate on acetate and ethanol production by the electrosynthetic bacterium Sporomusa ovata

Overview of attention for article published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, August 2016
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Title
Effect of tungstate on acetate and ethanol production by the electrosynthetic bacterium Sporomusa ovata
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Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, August 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13068-016-0576-0
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Fariza Ammam, Pier-Luc Tremblay, Dawid M. Lizak, Tian Zhang

Abstract

Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) and gas fermentation are bioenergy technologies in which a microbial catalyst reduces CO2 into organic carbon molecules with electrons from the cathode of a bioelectrochemical system or from gases such as H2. The acetogen Sporomusa ovata has the capacity of reducing CO2 into commodity chemicals by both gas fermentation and MES. Acetate is often the only product generated by S. ovata during autotrophic growth. In this study, trace elements in S. ovata growth medium were optimized to improve MES and gas fermentation productivity. Augmenting tungstate concentration resulted in a 2.9-fold increase in ethanol production by S. ovata during H2:CO2-dependent growth. It also promoted electrosynthesis of ethanol in a S. ovata-driven MES reactor and increased acetate production 4.4-fold compared to unmodified medium. Furthermore, fatty acids propionate and butyrate were successfully converted to their corresponding alcohols 1-propanol and 1-butanol by S. ovata during gas fermentation. Increasing tungstate concentration enhanced conversion efficiency for both propionate and butyrate. Gene expression analysis suggested that tungsten-containing aldehyde ferredoxin oxidoreductases (AORs) and a tungsten-containing formate dehydrogenase (FDH) were involved in the improved biosynthesis of acetate, ethanol, 1-propanol, and 1-butanol. AORs and FDH contribute to the fatty acids re-assimilation pathway and the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway, respectively. This study presented here shows that optimization of microbial catalyst growth medium can improve productivity and lead to the biosynthesis of different products by gas fermentation and MES. It also provides insights on the metabolism of biofuels production in acetogens and demonstrates that S. ovata has an important untapped metabolic potential for the production of other chemicals than acetate via CO2-converting bioprocesses including MES.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 138 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 38 27%
Student > Master 24 17%
Researcher 19 13%
Student > Bachelor 14 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Other 13 9%
Unknown 26 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 25 18%
Environmental Science 22 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 12%
Engineering 16 11%
Chemical Engineering 9 6%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 35 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 11 August 2016.
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#14,782,490
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#756
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#209,816
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Outputs of similar age from Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
#16
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