Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Vibrio sp. dhg as a platform for the biorefinery of brown macroalgae

  • Hyun Gyu Lim,
  • Dong Hun Kwak,
  • Sungwoo Park,
  • Sunghwa Woo,
  • Jae-Seong Yang,
  • Chae Won Kang,
  • Beomhee Kim,
  • Myung Hyun Noh,
  • Sang Woo Seo,
  • Gyoo Yeol Jung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10371-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Brown macroalgae is a good candidate feedstock for biorefinery, but the major carbohydrate alginate cannot be digested by current industrial microbes. Here, the authors isolate Vibrio sp. dhg and engineer it to produce value-added biochemicals from alginate using newly developed genetic tools.