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Production of medium-chain fatty acids and higher alcohols by a synthetic co-culture grown on carbon monoxide or syngas

Overview of attention for article published in Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, April 2016
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Title
Production of medium-chain fatty acids and higher alcohols by a synthetic co-culture grown on carbon monoxide or syngas
Published in
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13068-016-0495-0
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Martijn Diender, Alfons J. M. Stams, Diana Z. Sousa

Abstract

Synthesis gas, a mixture of CO, H2, and CO2, is a promising renewable feedstock for bio-based production of organic chemicals. Production of medium-chain fatty acids can be performed via chain elongation, utilizing acetate and ethanol as main substrates. Acetate and ethanol are main products of syngas fermentation by acetogens. Therefore, syngas can be indirectly used as a substrate for the chain elongation process. Here, we report the establishment of a synthetic co-culture consisting of Clostridium autoethanogenum and Clostridium kluyveri. Together, these bacteria are capable of converting CO and syngas to a mixture of C4 and C6 fatty acids and their respective alcohols. The co-culture is able to grow using solely CO or syngas as a substrate, and presence of acetate significantly stimulated production rates. The co-culture produced butyrate and caproate at a rate of 8.5 ± 1.1 and 2.5 ± 0.63 mmol/l/day, respectively. Butanol and hexanol were produced at a rate of 3.5 ± 0.69 and 2.0 ± 0.46 mmol/l/day, respectively. The pH was found to be a major factor during cultivation, influencing the growth performance of the separate strains and caproate toxicity. This co-culture poses an alternative way to produce medium-chain fatty acids and higher alcohols from carbon monoxide or syngas and the process can be regarded as an integration of syngas fermentation and chain elongation in one growth vessel.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 278 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 63 22%
Researcher 47 17%
Student > Master 40 14%
Student > Bachelor 28 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 6%
Other 31 11%
Unknown 55 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 55 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 34 12%
Environmental Science 31 11%
Engineering 31 11%
Chemical Engineering 26 9%
Other 30 11%
Unknown 74 26%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 28 February 2019.
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#3,335,972
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#163
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#51,696
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Outputs of similar age from Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts
#4
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