Due to the depletion of fossil fuels, climate changes, growing world population, future energy supply from the renewable biomass is one of the important challenges in biotechnology. Biobutanol, which has been produced from the solventogenic microorganism such as Clostridium acetobutylicum, is considered as valuable biofuel because it has more heat energy and is less corrosive and evaporative than bioethanol. The goal of this research is the development of the biocatalytic process for conversion of levulinic acid to 2-butanone in order to utilize levulinic acid is be produced via the acidic saccharification of the red algae. The product 2-butanone can be easily converted to 2-butanol via hydrogenation using chemical catalysis. Herein, acetoacetate decarboxylase was selected as biocatalyst for the conversion of levulinic acid to 2-butanone. The kinetic parameters and optimum condition of the biocatalyst was determined using levulinic acid as substrate. For higher turnover number, structure-based molecular docking and binding energy calculation were studied. The product analysis will be discussed.
한국생물공학회 [The Korean Society for Biotechnology and Bioengineering]
설립연도
1984
분야
공학>생물공학
소개
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