Researchers engineer yeast to tolerate ionic liquid used in biomass pretreatment for biofuel production

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By mmillikinAug 10, 2018, 5:32 am447 ptsHot
Ionic liquids—neutral salts that attain a liquid state at temperatures mostly below 100 ˚C—are very effective in the pretreatment of biomass to make its cellulose highly accessible to cellulase enzymes that hydrolyze it into glucose for fermentation by microbes. However, ionic liquids are toxic to…

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