Abstract
The production of industrial chemicals from renewable biomass resources is a promising solution to overcome the society’s dependence on petroleum and to mitigate the pollution resulting from petroleum processing. Klebsiella pneumoniae is a nutritionally versatile bacterium with numerous native pathways for the production of well-known and industrially important platform chemicals derived from various sugars. Genomic sequence analyses have shown that the K. pneumoniae genome has a high similarity with that of Escherichia coli, the most studied organism, which is used in industrial biotechnology processes for fuel and chemical production. Hence, K. pneumoniae can be considered as a promising platform microorganism that can be metabolically engineered for the high-level production of bio-based chemicals. This review highlights the substrate metabolism and the metabolic engineering strategies developed in K. pneumoniae for the production of bio-based chemicals.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 48-64 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Feb 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes on Systems Metabolic Engineering for Biorefineries from the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (NRF-2015M1A2A2035810), the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program MSIT through the NRF of Korea (NRF-2018M3A9H3020459) and “Human Resources Program in Energy Technology” of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), granted financial resource from the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy, Republic of Korea (No. 20174010201150).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering and Springer.
Keywords
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- biomass
- biorefinery
- carbon utilization
- metabolic engineering
- microbial cell factory