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• Non-fermentative pathways for synthesis of branched-chain higher alcohols as biofuels.

  Global energy and environmental problems have stimulated increased efforts towards synthesizing biofuels from renewable resources. Compared to the tra…

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, Taizo Hanai, James C Liao

  Source: Nature. 2008 Jan 3

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• Direct photosynthetic recycling of carbon dioxide to isobutyraldehyde.

  Global climate change has stimulated efforts to reduce CO(2) emissions. One approach to addressing this problem is to recycle CO(2) directly into fuel…

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, Wendy Higashide, James C Liao

  Source: Nature biotechnology. 2009 Dec

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• Regulatory circuit design and evolution using phage lambda.

  Bistable gene regulatory circuits can adopt more than one stable epigenetic state. To understand how natural circuits have this and other systems prop…

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, John W Little

  Source: Genes & development. 2004 Sep 1

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• Metabolic engineering for advanced biofuels production from Escherichia coli.

  Global energy and environmental problems have stimulated increasing efforts toward synthesizing liquid biofuels as transportation energy. Compared to …

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, James C Liao

  Source: Current opinion in biotechnology. 2008 Oct

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• Directed evolution of Methanococcus jannaschii citramalate synthase for biosynthesis of 1-propanol and 1-butanol by Escherichia coli.

  Biofuels synthesized from renewable resources are of increasing interest because of global energy and environmental problems. We have previously demon…

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, James C Liao

  Source: Applied and environmental microbiology. 2008 Dec

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• Acetolactate synthase from Bacillus subtilis serves as a 2-ketoisovalerate decarboxylase for isobutanol biosynthesis in Escherichia coli.

  A pathway toward isobutanol production previously constructed in Escherichia coli involves 2-ketoacid decarboxylase (Kdc) from Lactococcus lactis that…

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, Zhen Li, James C Liao

  Source: Applied and environmental microbiology. 2009 Oct

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• Engineering the isobutanol biosynthetic pathway in Escherichia coli by comparison of three aldehyde reductase/alcohol dehydrogenase genes.

  Biofuels synthesized from renewable resources are of increasing interest because of global energy and environmental problems. We have previously demon…

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, Tung-Yun Wu, Eva-Maria Eckl, Sarah D Hawkins, Thomas Buelter, James C Liao

  Source: Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 2010 Jan

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• Selections for constituting new RNA-protein interactions in catalytic RNP.

  In vitro and in vivo selection techniques are developed to constitute new RNA-peptide interactions. The selection strategy is designed by employing a …

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, Yoshiya Ikawa, Hideaki Shiraishi, Tan Inoue

  Source: Nucleic acids research. 2003 Jan 15

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• Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for 1-butanol production.

  Compared to ethanol, butanol offers many advantages as a substitute for gasoline because of higher energy content and higher hydrophobicity. Typically…

  Authors: Shota Atsumi, Anthony F Cann, Michael R Connor, Claire R Shen, Kevin M Smith, Mark P Brynildsen, Katherine J Y Chou, Taizo Hanai, James C Liao

  Source: Metabolic engineering. 2008 Nov

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• Putative intermediary stages for the molecular evolution from a ribozyme to a catalytic RNP.

  A hypothetical evolutionary pathway from a ribozyme to a catalytic RNA-protein complex (RNP) is proposed and examined. In this hypothesis for an early…

  Authors: Yoshiya Ikawa, Kentaro Tsuda, Shigeyoshi Matsumura, Shota Atsumi, Tan Inoue

  Source: Nucleic acids research. 2003 Mar 1

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