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. 2020 Oct 30;8:599560. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.599560

TABLE 3.

Summary of recent progress in microbial biosynthesis of isoprenoid-derived advanced jet fuel candidates.

Microbial host Feedstock Terpene Potential biojet fuel blendstock Titer (mg/L) Scale Operation References
E. coli Glucose Bisabolene Bisabolane 912 50 mL Flask Batch Peralta-Yahya et al. (2011)
Linalool RJ-4 505 Flask Batch Mendez-Perez et al. (2017)
Eucalyptol Limonane 653 Flask Batch Mendez-Perez et al. (2017)
Pinene Pinene dimers/pinane 32 5 mL Flask Batch Sarria et al. (2014)
Epi-isozizaene Epi-isozizaane 728 4 L Flask Batch Liu et al. (2018)
Pentalenene Pentalenane 780 2.5 L Flask Batch Liu et al. (2018)
α-Isocomene α-Isocomane 78 Flask Batch Liu et al. (2018)
Limonene Limonene/limonane 1,290 Flask Fed-batch Wu et al. (2019)
Pure glycerol Farnesene Farnesane 8740 7 L Bioreactor Batch You et al. (2017)
Limonene Limonene/limonane 3,600 3.1 L Bioreactor Fed-batch Rolf et al. (2020)
Sabinene Sabinane 2,650 5 L Bioreactor Fed-batch Zhang et al. (2014)
Myrcene 2,6-dimethyloctane 58 50 mL Flask Batch Kim et al. (2015)
Crude glycerol Farnesene Farnesane 2,830 7 L Bioreactor Batch You et al. (2017)
S. cerevisiae 1.8% galactose/0.2% glucose Bisabolene Bisabolane 994 5 mL Flask Batch Peralta-Yahya et al. (2011)
Pentalenene Pentalenane 344 5 mL Flask Batch Liu et al. (2018)
Unrefined cane syrup Farnesene Farnesane 130,000 200,000 L Bioreactor Fed-batch Meadows et al. (2016)
Y. lipolytica Glucose Farnesene Farnesane 2,555 1 L Bioreactor Batch Liu Y. et al. (2019)
Glycerol Limonene Limonene/limonane 165 1.5 L Bioreactor Fed-batch Cheng et al. (2019)
Waste cooking oil Limonene Limonene/limonane 2.5 Flask Batch Pang et al. (2019)
Bisabolene Bisabolane 973 250 mL Flask Batch Zhao et al. (2020)
R. toruloides Corn stover hydrolysate Eucalyptol Limonane 35 2 L Bioreactor Batch Zhuang et al. (2019)
Bisabolene Bisabolane 680 2 L Bioreactor Fed-batch Yaegashi et al. (2017)
Synechocystis sp. CO2 Bisabolene Bisabolane 22 3 L Photobioreactor Batch Sebesta and Peebles (2020)
Limonene Limonene/limonane 6.7 250 mL Flask Batch Lin et al. (2017)