2. Major metabolic engineering successes
2.1 Metabolic engineering and biofuels
The first and certainly the most developed application of metabolic engineering is biofuel production. The use and improvement of naturally ethanol-producing strains such as S. cerevisiae, C. acetobutylicum or Z. mobilis, or slightly modified strains, are at the heart of the development of first-generation fuels.
Using ethanol as the sole fuel poses a number of technical challenges. Firstly, its energy density is only 2/3 that of...
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