First generation biofuels compete

Martin, Marshall A.

doi:10.1016/j.nbt.2010.06.010

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“…Biomass is gathered from various plants (including crops or peas) and used to generate bio-alcohol or bio-fuel [1, 2]. However, using crops as a biomass source may crowd out food, especially in poor regions of the world [3]. Thus, an alternative species with less land requirement and high oil production needs to be identified.…”

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AlgaePath: comprehensive analysis of metabolic pathways using transcript abundance data from next-generation sequencing in green algae

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BackgroundAlgae are important non-vascular plants that have many research applications, including high species diversity, biofuel sources, and adsorption of heavy metals and, following processing, are used as ingredients in health supplements. The increasing availability of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data for algae genomes and transcriptomes has made the development of an integrated resource for retrieving gene expression data and metabolic pathway essential for functional analysis and systems biology. In a currently available resource, gene expression profiles and biological pathways are displayed separately, making it impossible to easily search current databases to identify the cellular response mechanisms. Therefore, in this work the novel AlgaePath database was developed to retrieve transcript abundance profiles efficiently under various conditions in numerous metabolic pathways.DescriptionAlgaePath is a web-based database that integrates gene information, biological pathways, and NGS datasets for the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Neodesmus sp. UTEX 2219–4. Users can search this database to identify transcript abundance profiles and pathway information using five query pages (Gene Search, Pathway Search, Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) Search, Gene Group Analysis, and Co-expression Analysis). The transcript abundance data of 45 and four samples from C. reinhardtii and Neodesmus sp. UTEX 2219–4, respectively, can be obtained directly on pathway maps. Genes that are differentially expressed between two conditions can be identified using Folds Search. The Gene Group Analysis page includes a pathway enrichment analysis, and can be used to easily compare the transcript abundance profiles of functionally related genes on a map. Finally, the Co-expression Analysis page can be used to search for co-expressed transcripts of a target gene. The results of the searches will provide a valuable reference for designing further experiments and for elucidating critical mechanisms from high-throughput data.ConclusionsAlgaePath is an effective interface that can be used to clarify the transcript response mechanisms in different metabolic pathways under various conditions. Importantly, AlgaePath can be mined to identify critical mechanisms based on high-throughput sequencing. To our knowledge, AlgaePath is the most comprehensive resource for integrating numerous databases and analysis tools in algae. The system can be accessed freely online at http://algaepath.itps.ncku.edu.tw.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-196) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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AlgaePath: comprehensive analysis of metabolic pathways using transcript abundance data from next-generation sequencing in green algae

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“…Over the past decade, massive resources have been invested in the optimization of methods for extracting ethanolic precursors from terrestrial biomass, such as corn and perennial grasses (2). Comparatively, less effort has been directed toward the bioprocessing of marine algal biomass, which has shown potential as a replacement for land-based plant materials (3).…”

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“…The most widely distributed component of brown algae is alginate, a cell wall polysaccharide composed of polymeric blocks of ␣-(1,4) O-linked ␤-D-mannuronate (M) 2 and its C5 epimer ␣-L-guluronate (G). These monosaccharides can form homopolymeric blocks of G residues (G blocks) or M residues (M blocks) or heteropolymers of alternating M and G (MG blocks).…”

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Structure of a PL17 Family Alginate Lyase Demonstrates Functional Similarities among Exotype Depolymerases

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2014

Journal of Biological Chemistry

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Background: Exotype polysaccharide lyases can cleave glycosidic bonds to catabolize complex carbohydrates into simple monosaccharides. Results:The first characterization of a family 17 polysaccharide lyase (PL17) provides insights into the mechanism of alginate depolymerization. Conclusion:The structure of a PL17 enzyme illustrates unexpected similarities to other polysaccharide lyases despite a lack of sequence conservation.Significance: These studies demonstrate an unexpected evolutionary relationship among the polysaccharide lyases.

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“…Most of these developments of eco-industrial parks are endorsed by the exchange of material and information among different companies or industries [109,110]. Another example of an eco-industrial park is in Sweden, Oster Gotland, which is related to the material flows and linkage between a sawmill, a pellet production plant, a pulp mill and many different municipality actors with the aim of reusing and cutting CO2, heat and power waste with biofuel applications [111]. The exchange of waste or by-products is the main activity that is implemented or planned in eco-industrial parks, as it is quite economical to utilize waste especially for metal scraps, waste plastics, paper or wood scraps, ash and sludge [112].…”

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Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

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Nowadays, the horse industry can be considered as an important industry in European countries and has a major role in agricultural industry throughout the world. Although today the diversity of the horse-related companies provides new markets and business opportunities, there are also some sustainable issues which needs to be addressed. Therefore, this study contributes to this research gap by reviewing the concept of sustainability and existing approaches to find sustainable solutions for companies. These sustainable approaches can be applied to products, services and technologies as well as business models, such as the product-service-system (PSS), circular economy (CE) and industrial symbiosis (IS). Although there seems to be a growing understanding of sustainable approaches and their role in sustainable development, there is a lack of research at the empirical level regarding the types of sustainability approaches (i.e., technologies, services, products and business models) that evolve in specific industries. The empirical data in this research have been collected from a cross-section of Finnish horse industry operators to determine how willing companies are to exploit approaches to sustainable solutions, as well as what the existing sustainable solutions are in this industry. The response rate of this study is approximately 24 percent, including 139 received valid responses among the sample of 580 operators.

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First generation biofuels compete

Cited by 84 publications

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AlgaePath: comprehensive analysis of metabolic pathways using transcript abundance data from next-generation sequencing in green algae

AlgaePath: comprehensive analysis of metabolic pathways using transcript abundance data from next-generation sequencing in green algae

Structure of a PL17 Family Alginate Lyase Demonstrates Functional Similarities among Exotype Depolymerases

Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

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