NotPetroleum Blog » butanol http://notpetroleum.com Researching Renewable Alternatives to Petroleum Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:56:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 JBEI Researchers Engineer Yeast to Produce n-Butanol http://notpetroleum.com/2008/12/07/jbei-researchers-engineer-yeast-to-produce-n-butanol/ http://notpetroleum.com/2008/12/07/jbei-researchers-engineer-yeast-to-produce-n-butanol/#comments Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:19:39 +0000 admin http://notpetroleum.com/?p=45

Researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Dr. Jay Keasling at UC Berkeley, have engineered the common industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with an n-butanol biosynthetic pathway, resulting in a ten-fold improvement in n-butanol production from one of the strains to 2.5 mg/L. An open access paper on their work was published online 3 December in the journal Microbial Cell Factories.

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