Engineered Microbial Consortium for the Efficient Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels Page: IV
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................................. iii
LIST OF TABLES......................................................................................................................... vi
LIST O F ILLU STR A TIO N S ........................................................................................................ vii
CH A PTER 1. IN TRO D U CTIO N ................................................................................................ 1
1.1 L ead H ypotheses.................................................................................................. 3
1.2 Specific A im s of the Project ................................................................................ 3
1.3 Anticipated Results and Expected Benefits of the Engineering Effort............ 4
1.4 Physiological Characteristics of Zymomonas Mobilis under Aerobic Conditions.. 4
1.5 Sugar M etabolism in Zymomonas mobilis.............................................................. 6
1.6 Glucose-Fructose Oxidoreductase (GFOR).......................................................10
1.7 Strain Improvement through Mutagenesis and Metabolic Engineering in
Zymomonas mobilis through Recombinant DNA Technology................ 11
1.8 Ethanol Tolerance in Zymomonas mobilis and the Function of Hopanoids ......... 14
1.9 Transcriptomic Profiling of Zymomonas mobilis Under Ethanol Stress [69]....... 17
1.10 The Genome Sequences of the Ethanologenic Bacteria Zymomonas mobilis ZM4
and Zymomonas mobilis (ATCC 10988) ...........................................................18
CHAPTER 2. THE CELLULOSOMES OF Clostridium cellulolyticum..................................... 19
2.1 C ellulosom al Enzym es....................................................................................... 21
2.2 The Endoglucanases (celZ and celY) from Erwinia chrysanthemi............. 23
2.3 Ice Nucleation Proteins of Pseudomonas syringae...........................................24
2.4 Synthetic Biology, Microbial Consortia and Coculturing................... 27
2.5 Construction of Recombinant DNA...................................................................37
2.5.1 Contruction of the Recombinant DNA pAA1........................37
2.5.2 Construction of the Recombinant DNA pAA2..................... 38
CHAPTER 3. MATERIALS AND METHODS ......................................................................39
3.1 Determination of the Ethanol Tolerance of Purified Cellulosomes..............39
3.1.1 Bacterial Strain and M edia..................................................................... 39
3.1.2 Cellulosom e Purification ...................................................................... 39iv
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Anieto, Ugochukwu Obiakornobi. Engineered Microbial Consortium for the Efficient Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels, dissertation, August 2014; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699973/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .