Biodegradation of 5-(Hydroxymethyl)-furfural and Furan Derivatives
María Isabel Igeño,
Rubén Sánchez-Clemente,
Ana G. Población,
M. Isabel Guijo,
Faustino Merchán,
Rafael Blasco
Affiliations
María Isabel Igeño
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Genética, Facultad de Veterinaria, and Meat and Meat Products Research Institute (IProCar), Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Rubén Sánchez-Clemente
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Genética, Facultad de Veterinaria, and Meat and Meat Products Research Institute (IProCar), Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Ana G. Población
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Genética, Facultad de Veterinaria, and Meat and Meat Products Research Institute (IProCar), Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
M. Isabel Guijo
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Genética, Facultad de Veterinaria, and Meat and Meat Products Research Institute (IProCar), Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Faustino Merchán
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Genética, Facultad de Veterinaria, and Meat and Meat Products Research Institute (IProCar), Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Rafael Blasco
Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Genética, Facultad de Veterinaria, and Meat and Meat Products Research Institute (IProCar), Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain
Furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) are degradation products of lignocellulose during pretreatment operations. Furfural compounds are a group of chemical compounds whose common thread is an aldehyde group attached to a furan ring, and they constitute a problem for the development of second-generation biofuels because they act as fermentation inhibitors of the lignocellulose hydrolysates. Up to date, very few bacteria have been described to be able to eliminate them. The objective of this work was to isolate and characterize bacterial strains able to use, as the sole carbon source, 5-(hydroxymethyl)-furfural (HMF) and furan derivatives.
