title: Metabolic engineering for isoprenoid-based biofuel production.
abstract: Sustainable economic and industrial growth is the need of the hour and it requires renewable energy resources having better performance and compatibility with existing fuel infrastructure from biological routes. Isoprenoids (C ≥ 5) can be a potential alternative due to their diverse nature and physiochemical properties similar to that of petroleum based fuels. In the past decade, extensive research has been done to utilize metabolic engineering strategies in micro-organisms primarily, (i) to overcome the limitations associated with their natural and non-natural production and (ii) to develop commercially competent microbial strain for isoprenoid-based biofuel production. This review briefly describes the engineered isoprenoid biosynthetic pathways in well-characterized microbial systems for the production of several isoprenoid-based biofuels and fuel precursors.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Phulara
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D056804:Biofuels / Q000032:analysis*; D053898:Biosynthetic Pathways; D007218:Industrial Microbiology; D060847:Metabolic Engineering; D013729:Terpenes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D056804:Biofuels; D013729:Terpenes
keywords: biofuel; biofuel production; isoprenoids; metabolic engineering; micro-organisms