Presentations

The acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation of Clostridium acetobutylicum attracts new attention because it provides a potential alternative for the synthesis of value added chemicals to petroleum and other fossil reserves. This fermentative metabolic process comprises two distinct metabolic states that differ in their product spectrum. Growing on starch or sugars the predominant fermentation products are acetate and butyrate during acidogenesis (high pH). In contrast, C. acetobutylicum produces ...

Presentation by Michael Ederer and Klaas Hellingwerf at the SysMO Conference 2013 (Feb 2013, Berlin)

Talk given by Maksim Zakhartsev (Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany, member of MOSES, ZucAt and ExtremoPharm projects)