{"id":16238,"date":"2012-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20121218-06n"},"modified":"2021-09-09T21:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T19:54:20","slug":"making-sugars-not-extracting-them-proterros-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/making-sugars-not-extracting-them-proterros-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Making sugars, not extracting them: Proterro\u2019s Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Where other companies are growing sugars via crop improvements, or extracting them, Proterro is making them via synthetic biology. Specifically, they have engineered a cyanobacteria to make sucrose (via a series of steps <a href=\"http:\/\/appft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&#038;r=2&#038;p=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;d=PG01&#038;S1=348887.APN.&#038;OS=apn\/348887&#038;RS=APN\/348887\" >you can read all about here<\/a>), ultimately from CO<sub>2<\/sub>, water, sunlight and nutrients \u2013 and secrete it into a sugarwater stream that can be purified into affordable sucrose.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been well-known in the literature for some time that certain cyanobacteria can accumulate disaccharides, via photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>So, why aren\u2019t there a raft of companies chasing this type of solution? First, there\u2019s a ton of science in engineering up the yield to attractive rates. <\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2012\/12\/18\/making-sugars-not-extracting-them-proterros-technology\/\" >www.biofuelsdigest.com\/bdigest\/2012\/12\/18\/making-sugars-not-extracting-them-proterros-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: microbes, fermentation vats, enzymes, yeasts, distillation, F-T technologies, catalytic fast pyrolysis, combustion gas, flue gas<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Where other companies are growing sugars via crop improvements, or extracting them, Proterro is making them via synthetic biology. Specifically, they have engineered a cyanobacteria<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,5571],"tags":[],"supplier":[4281],"class_list":["post-16238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","supplier-proterro-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16238"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}