Progress of succinic acid production from renewable resources: Metabolic and fermentative strategies

Min Jiang, Jiangfeng Ma, Mingke Wu, Rongming Liu, Liya Liang, Fengxue Xin, Wenming Zhang, Honghua Jia, Weiliang Dong

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Abstract

Succinic acid is a four-carbon dicarboxylic acid, which has attracted much interest due to its abroad usage as a precursor of many industrially important chemicals in the food, chemicals, and pharmaceutical industries. Facing the shortage of crude oil supply and demand of sustainable development, biological production of succinic acid from renewable resources has become a topic of worldwide interest. In recent decades, robust producing strain selection, metabolic engineering of model strains, and process optimization for succinic acid production have been developed. This review provides an overview of succinic acid producers and cultivation technology, highlight some of the successful metabolic engineering approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1710-1717
Number of pages8
JournalBioresource Technology
Volume245
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2017

Keywords

  • Carbon dioxide
  • Metabolic engineering
  • NADH/NAD
  • Renewable resources
  • Succinic acid

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