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Takaaki Horinouchi1, Tomoya Maeda2, Chikara Furusawa3,4
1Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), RIKEN, 6-2-3 Furuedai, Suita, Osaka, 565-0874, Japan. takaaki_horinouchi@riken.jp.
Abstract:
Microbes are capable of producing alcohols, making them an important source of alternative energy that can replace fossil fuels. However, these alcohols can be toxic to the microbes themselves, retaring or inhibiting cell growth and decreasing the production yield. One solution is improving the alcohol tolerance of such alcohol-producing organisms. Advances in omics technologies, including transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and genomic technologies, have helped us understand the complex mechanisms underlying alcohol toxicity, and such advances could assist in devising strategies for engineering alcohol-tolerant strains. This review highlights these advances and discusses strategies for improving alcohol tolerance using omics analyses.
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