REN Jie, ZENG Anping. CO2 based biomanufacturing: from basic research to industrial application[J]. Synthetic Biology Journal, 2021, 2(6): 854-862 DOI: 10.12211/2096-8280.2021-086.
CO2 based biomanufacturing: from basic research to industrial application封面论文
captures worldwide attention these days because of the urgent need to counteract its ever increasing in the atmosphere and its impact on climate change
with the ultimate goal of carbon neutrality. Recently
large efforts have been made in CO
2
capture and utilization
primarily using physical or chemical means. Biotechnological CO
2
capture and utilization has been mainly studied using microalgae
but turned out to be economically less competitive. Large-scale biotechnological capture and utilization of CO
2
thus urgently needs new concepts and technologies. The teams of Tan Tianwei and Jens Nielsen (Liu et al
2020) recently reviewed the advances and challenges in biological CO
2
fixation in the context of third-generation (3G) biorefineries. The review gives an excellent survey and valuable discussions on sources of CO
2
the natural and synthetic CO
2
fixation pathways
use of regenerative energy
and 3G-based products. Perspectives of 3G biorefineries are also presented. It is clear that each CO
2
fixation pathway has its benefits and drawbacks and the choice depends on the microbial host
the target product(s)
and the preferred process and cultivation conditions. In addition to the technical aspects
the authors also emphasized the necessity of further increasing social
political and economic incentives for co
ntinued financial support of research and small companies. This commentary briefly introduces the major points of the review of Liu et al. and discusses further aspects on the move from basic research to industrial application of CO
2
based biomanufacturing. In particular
we emphasize the following aspects: (1) More fundamental and quantitative studies on the underlying mechanisms of carbon binding and transformation to significantly increase the efficiency of key enzymes and metabolic modules of the different fixation pathways; (2) The interactions of CO
2
fixation pathway with metabolic network and their regulation deserve more systems level and quantitative study; (3) Integration of physical
chemical and electrochemical CO
2
capture and transformation methods with biological processes in the sense of biorefineries
also by considering the downstream processing of product recovery; (4) From the perspective of industrial application
autotrophic synthesis-based biomanufaturing has several major technological bottlenecks and economic constraints
mixotrophic biosynthesis (using CO
2
and mixed carbon sources) seems a practical solution and deserves more attention; (5) Finally
most of the CO
2
fixation pathways and their products are still at the proof of concept stage
engineering breakthroughs are urgently needed for moving from “0 to 1” to“1 to 100”and thus to really contribute to carbon neutrality.
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