Metabolically engineered bacteria for producing hydrogen via fermentation

Gönül Vardar-Schara; Toshinari Maeda; Thomas K. Wood

doi:10.1111/j.1751-7915.2007.00009.x

Metabolically engineered bacteria for producing hydrogen via fermentation

Gönül Vardar-Schara, Toshinari Maeda, Thomas K. Wood

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Hydrogen, the most abundant and lightest element in the universe, has much potential as a future energy source. Hydrogenases catalyse one of the simplest chemical reactions, 2H⁺ + 2e^- ↔ H₂, yet their structure is very complex. Biologically, hydrogen can be produced via photosynthetic or fermentative routes. This review provides an overview of microbial production of hydrogen by fermentation (currently the more favourable route) and focuses on biochemical pathways, theoretical hydrogen yields and hydrogenase structure. In addition, several examples of metabolic engineering to enhance fermentative hydrogen production are presented along with some examples of expression of heterologous hydrogenases for enhanced hydrogen production.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	107-125
Number of pages	19
Journal	Microbial Biotechnology
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-7915.2007.00009.x
State	Published - Mar 2008

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Biotechnology
Bioengineering
Biochemistry
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

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