Genome Project for Alcohol Producing Bacterium Completed

The research team of Macrogen Inc., a domestic biotechnology venture company, reported on the results from its genome-sequencing project of ethanologenic bacterium Zymomonas mobilis, in the on-line edition of Nature Biotechnology.

From its successful complete genome sequencing effort, the research team was able to prove that Zymomonas mobilis, an alcohol fermenting strain used for industrial...