摘要
Risks associated with climate change are driving the search for new technologies to produce fuels and chemicals. The microbial electrosynthesis of chemical compounds, using electricity and CO2 as feedstock and microbes to deliver the catalysts, has the potential to be one of those technologies. Central to the production of multicarbon compounds by this process is the bioelectrosynthesis of acetate (electroacetogenesis), and significant improvements in productivity and insightful discoveries concerning the extracellular transfer of electrons to the acetogenic microorganisms have been made recently. This review examines these advances and how they are influencing the development of microbial electrosynthesis into a new biotechnology for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals.
摘要译文
与气候变化相关的风险正在推动寻找新技术生产燃料和化学品。化学化合物的微生物电化学合成，使用电和二氧化碳作为原料和微生物来提供催化剂，有可能成为这些技术之一。中心通过这种方法生产多碳酸酯化合物是乙酸酯（电生成）的生物电化学合成，并且近来已经对电子对乙酰酵母微生物的细胞外转移的生产力和有见识的发现进行了显着的改善。这个评论检查了这些进展以及它们是如何影响微生物电合成发展成为燃料和化学品可持续生产的新型生物技术
Harold D May[1][3]; Patrick J Evans[2]; Edward V LaBelle[1]. The bioelectrosynthesis of acetate[J]. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2016,42: 225–233