THERMOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS FOR CONVERSION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS TO ETHANOL

摘要

It is disclosed here engineered cellulolytic microorganisms capable of producing ethanol from lignocellulosic feedstock with high yield. Multiple genes in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum that are involved in the pyruvate to ethanol pathway are disclosed which may be transferred into C. thermocellum or other natively cellulolytic microorganisms.