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Potentiality of Herbaspirillum seropedicae as a Platform for Bioplastic Production

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Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a polyhydroxyalkanoate produced by several bacteria as carbon storage and reducing equivalent sink. The production of PHB is a hot topic in biotechnological research due to its properties similar to oil-based plastics, while PHB is readily degradable in the environment. Therefore, PHB is a bio-sustainable alternative for synthetic plastic materials. The main hurdle for PHB use is the cost of fermentative process in large scale, which is still high when compared to industrial processes based in petroleum. The use of cheap biomass feedstocks and industrial by-products can potentially reduce costs of microbial PHB production. In addition, the application of metabolic engineering to fine-tune metabolic pathways or even create more efficient pathways may yield important gains in PHB production competiveness. In this chapter we will address the potential of the bacterium Herbaspirillum seropedicae as a platform for PHB production, analyzing the functions of genes involved in PHB and carbon metabolism to propose strategies for metabolic engineering of new bacterial strains.

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We are grateful to CNPq, INCT-Fixação Biológica de Nitrogênio, CAPES, and Fundação Araucária for financial support.

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Batista, M.B., Müller-Santos, M., Pedrosa, F.d.O., de Souza, E.M. (2016). Potentiality of Herbaspirillum seropedicae as a Platform for Bioplastic Production. In: Castro-Sowinski, S. (eds) Microbial Models: From Environmental to Industrial Sustainability. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2555-6_2

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