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    Efficient, Simple Production of Corresponding Alcohols from Supplemented C2-C8 Carboxylic Acids in Escherichia coli Using Acyl-CoA Transferase from Megasphaera hexanoica

    The accumulation of short-chain carboxylic acids (SCCAs), such as acetic acid (C2), propionic acid (C3), butyric acid (C4), and valeric acid (C5), produced by acetogens in the anaerobic digestion (AD) process ham...

    Hyojung Park, Byoung Seung Jeon, Byoung-In Sang in Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering (2020)

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    An Efficient New Process for the Selective Production of Odd-Chain Carboxylic Acids by Simple Carbon Elongation Using Megasphaera hexanoica

    The caproate-producing bacterium, Megasphaera hexanoica, metabolizes fructose to produce C2~C8 carbon-chain carboxylic acids using various electron acceptors. In particular, odd-chain carboxylic acids (OCCAs) suc...

    Hyun** Kim, Byoung Seung Jeon, Byoung-In Sang in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Production of medium-chain carboxylic acids by Megasphaera sp. MH with supplemental electron acceptors

    C5–C8 medium-chain carboxylic acids are valuable chemicals as the precursors of various chemicals and transport fuels. However, only a few strict anaerobes have been discovered to produce them and their produc...

    Byoung Seung Jeon, Okkyoung Choi, Youngsoon Um in Biotechnology for Biofuels (2016)

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    In Situ Biphasic Extractive Fermentation for Hexanoic Acid Production from Sucrose by Megasphaera elsdenii NCIMB 702410

    Hexanoic acid production by a bacterium using sucrose as an economic carbon source was studied under conditions in which hexanoic acid was continuously extracted by liquid–liquid extraction. Megasphaera elsdenii ...

    Kieun Choi, Byoung Seung Jeon, Byung-Chun Kim in Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (2013)

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    Co-culturing a novel Bacillus strain with Clostridium tyrobutyricum ATCC 25755 to produce butyric acid from sucrose

    Currently, the most promising microorganism used for the bio-production of butyric acid is Clostridium tyrobutyricum ATCC 25755T; however, it is unable to use sucrose as a sole carbon source. Consequently, a newl...

    Mohammed Dwidar, Seil Kim, Byoung Seung Jeon, Youngsoon Um in Biotechnology for Biofuels (2013)

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    Production of hexanoic acid from d-galactitol by a newly isolated Clostridium sp. BS-1

    In a study screening anaerobic microbes utilizing d-galactitol as a fermentable carbon source, four bacterial strains were isolated from an enrichment culture producing H2, ethanol, butanol, acetic acid, butyric ...

    Byoung Seung Jeon, Byung-Chun Kim, Youngsoon Um in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (2010)