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Fig. 3 | Bioresources and Bioprocessing

Fig. 3

From: Enhanced bioethanol production by evolved Escherichia coli LGE2-H in a microbial electrolysis cell system

Fig. 3

Metabolic pathway for the production of ethanol from levoglucosan. (1) Levoglucosan is transported to the plasma membrane. (2) Levoglucosan is catalyzed by levoglucosan kinase (LGK) to yield glucose-6-phosphate in the presence of Mg.2+ and ATP. (3) Pyruvate is transformed to acetaldehyde by pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC). (4) Acetaldehyde is reduced to ethanol by alcohol dehydrogenase (adh)

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