Recent Advances and Challenges towards Sustainable Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production

Constantina Kourmentza; Jersson Plácido; Nikolaos Venetsaneas; Anna Burniol Figols; Cristiano Varrone; Hariklia N. Gavala; Maria A. M.  Rei

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Recent Advances and Challenges towards Sustainable Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Production

Constantina Kourmentza, Jersson Plácido, Nikolaos Venetsaneas, Anna Burniol Figols, Cristiano Varrone, Hariklia N. Gavala, Maria A. M. Rei

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Sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, and fine chemicals production is a critical matter that research teams around the globe are focusing on nowadays. Polyhydroxyalkanoates represent one of the biomaterials of the future due to their physicochemical properties, biodegradability, and biocompatibility. Designing efficient and economic bioprocesses, combined with the respective social and environmental benefits, has brought together scientists from different backgrounds highlighting the multidisciplinary character of such a venture. In the current review, challenges and opportunities regarding polyhydroxyalkanoate production are presented and discussed, covering key steps of their overall production process by applying pure and mixed culture biotechnology, from raw bioprocess development to downstream processing.

Original language	English
Article number	55
Journal	Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering
Volume	4
Issue number	2
Number of pages	43
ISSN	1389-1723
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering4020055
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Polyhydroxyalkanoates
Biopolymers
Renewable feedstock
Mixed microbial consortia
Enrichment strategy
Pure cultures
Synthetic biology
Downstream processing

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