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A novel cell factory for efficient production of ethanol from dairy waste

Overview of attention for article published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, February 2016
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Title
A novel cell factory for efficient production of ethanol from dairy waste
Published in
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13068-016-0448-7
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Jianming Liu, Shruti Harnal Dantoft, Anders Würtz, Peter Ruhdal Jensen, Christian Solem

Abstract

Sustainable and economically feasible ways to produce ethanol or other liquid fuels are becoming increasingly relevant due to the limited supply of fossil fuels and the environmental consequences associated with their consumption. Microbial production of fuel compounds has gained a lot of attention and focus has mostly been on developing bio-processes involving non-food plant biomass feedstocks. The high cost of the enzymes needed to degrade such feedstocks into its constituent sugars as well as problems due to various inhibitors generated in pretreatment are two challenges that have to be addressed if cost-effective processes are to be established. Various industries, especially within the food sector, often have waste streams rich in carbohydrates and/or other nutrients, and these could serve as alternative feedstocks for such bio-processes. The dairy industry is a good example, where large amounts of cheese whey or various processed forms thereof are generated. Because of their nutrient-rich nature, these substrates are particularly well suited as feedstocks for microbial production. We have generated a Lactococcus lactis strain which produces ethanol as its sole fermentation product from the lactose contained in residual whey permeate (RWP), by introducing lactose catabolism into a L. lactis strain CS4435 (MG1363 Δ(3) ldh, Δpta, ΔadhE, pCS4268), where the carbon flow has been directed toward ethanol instead of lactate. To achieve growth and ethanol production on RWP, we added corn steep liquor hydrolysate (CSLH) as the nitrogen source. The outcome was efficient ethanol production with a titer of 41 g/L and a yield of 70 % of the theoretical maximum using a fed-batch strategy. The combination of a low-cost medium from industrial waste streams and an efficient cell factory should make the developed process industrially interesting. A process for the production of ethanol using L. lactis and a cheap renewable feedstock was developed. The results demonstrate that it is possible to achieve sustainable bioconversion of waste products from the dairy industry (RWP) and corn milling industry (CSLH) to ethanol and the process developed shows great potential for commercial realization.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Denmark 2 2%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 122 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 22%
Student > Master 20 16%
Researcher 14 11%
Student > Bachelor 10 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 17 14%
Unknown 29 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 31 25%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 27 22%
Engineering 14 11%
Environmental Science 7 6%
Chemistry 3 2%
Other 9 7%
Unknown 34 27%
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