Combinatorial genetic perturbation to refine metabolic circuits for producing biofuels and biochemicals

HJ Kim, TL Turner, YS Jin - Biotechnology advances, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent advances in metabolic engineering have enabled microbial factories to compete
with conventional processes for producing fuels and chemicals. Both rational and …

Pyrosequencing analysis of microbiota reveals that lactic acid bacteria are dominant in Korean flat fish fermented food, gajami-sikhae

HJ Kim, MJ Kim, TL Turner, BS Kim… - Bioscience …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The gajami-sikhae, traditional Korean cuisine fermented with flat fish, samples were
collected from eight different manufacturers (GS1–GS8). We employed pyrosequencing …

Expression of Gre2p improves tolerance of engineered xylose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae to glycolaldehyde under xylose metabolism

LN Jayakody, TL Turner, EJ Yun, II Kong, JJ Liu… - Applied microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
Engineered S. cerevisiae employing the xylose reductase pathway enables efficient xylose
valorization to fuels and chemicals. However, toxicity of thermochemically pretreated …

Phenotypic evaluation and characterization of 21 industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strains

II Kong, TL Turner, H Kim, SR Kim… - FEMS yeast …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Microorganisms have been studied and used extensively to produce value-added fuels and
chemicals. Yeasts, specifically Saccharomyces cerevisiae, receive industrial attention …

Pyrosequencing-based analysis of the bacterial community during fermentation of Alaska pollock sikhae: traditional Korean seafood

HJ Kim, MJ Kim, TL Turner, MK Lee - The Journal of General and …, 2014 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Numerous fermented foods are popular in Korea. Korean fermented foods were designed
for long-term storage, to supplement various nutrients, and to provide featured flavors …

Direct conversion of cellulose into ethanol and ethyl‐β‐d‐glucoside via engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae

LN Jayakody, JJ Liu, EJ Yun, TL Turner… - Biotechnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) of cellulose via engineered
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a sustainable solution to valorize cellulose into fuels and …

An extra copy of the β-glucosidase gene improved the cellobiose fermentation capability of an engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain

HJ Kim, WH Lee, TL Turner, S Kwak, YS Jin - 3 Biotech, 2019 - Springer
In a previously engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae recombinant, the cellobiose
fermentation rate was significantly lower than the glucose fermentation rate. Thus, we …

First report of Pseudomonas nitroreducens cultured from the lungs of a patient with pneumonia

TL Turner, R Wunderink, E Ozer… - BMJ Case Reports …, 2021 - casereports.bmj.com
A man in his 50s with neutropenic fever and multifocal lung opacities was diagnosed with a
viral pneumonia. A small number of bacteria grown from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid …

Application of CRISPR technology to the high production of biopolymers

HJ Kim, TL Turner - Biopolymer-Based Formulations, 2020 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas9 technology has had a great impact on biology, medicine, microbiology, and
food microbiology. In particular, the highly sophisticated base pair–level gene editing …

Engineering and evaluation of yeast strains for the production of lactic acid from cellulosic sugars

TL Turner - 2016 - ideals.illinois.edu
Terrestrial biomass consists largely of lignocellulosic materials. Abundant in nature,
lignocellulosic biomass can be cultivated easily on land otherwise unsuitable for traditional …