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Bactranol (Bacterial Transformation Ethanol)
Bactranol is the production of ethanol from Bacterium. The bactranol process uses complex carbohydrate-degrading marine bacterium, which can perform the function of fermenting xylose to ethanol.

Gamma-proteo-bacteria belonging and related to the genus Microbulbifer (now renamed saccharophagus degredans) are an emerging group of complex carbohydrate-degrading marine bacteria. Previously (to 2008) all of these bacterium were placed within Microbulbifer category or were unclassified. Recently, a new genus, Teredinibacter, represented by a single species, Teredinibacter turnerae, was formed to include an endosymbiotic branch of these organisms. In this study, a new genus, Saccharophagus, is proposed to accommodate the most versatile marine carbohydrate degrader yet identified, Saccharophagus degradans gen. (nov., sp. nov. 2-40(T) (=ATCC 43961(T)=DSM 17024(T)). S. degradans strain 2-40(T) can degrade 10 tested complex polysaccharides: agar, alginate, chitin, cellulose, fucoidan, laminarin, pectin, pullulan, starch and xylan. S. degradans 2-40(T) shares 90.5% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with the type strain of the Microbulbifer type species, Microbulbifer hydrolyticus IRE-31(T), and 91.5% with T. turnerae T7902(T), and can be further distinguished from members of these two genera by 16S rRNA gene cluster analysis, the ability to utilize 10 different complex polysaccharides as sole carbon sources, a significantly lower G+C content and differences in fatty acid content. The three genera of complex polysaccharide-degrading, marine bacteria now encompass 20 strains from diverse marine niches.

Bactranol /Recent updates
In recent studies (2008) Saccharophagus degradans from Chesapeake Bay was effectively put to use to produce cellulosic ethanol. Ceetol production by means of bacterial degredation could be key to unlocking vast quantities of ethanol for use as transportation fuel. The obvious implications that bacterial degeneration could have towards production ethanol can be hailed as revolutionary if seen in the context of a global oil crisis. Green technological advances will be made within markets where the technology is easiest to aquire. The Bactranol process of fermentation requires no complex machinery for ethanol production. Scientists (although not yet well established) have remarked that theoretically Bactranol could be produced in the home via home distillation. (this article is currently being written - more soon)