<I>E. coli</I> for Three Fuels (IMAGE)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

<I>E. coli</I> for Three Fuels

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For the three fuels E. coli engineered at JBEI, cellulose and hemicellulose are hydrolyzed by cellulase and hemicellulose enzymes (blue) into oligosaccharides, which are further hydrolyzed by β-glucosidase enzymes (red) into monosaccharides that can be metabolized into biofuels via metabolic pathways.

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courtesy of Joint BioEnergy Institute

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