Michael A. Cotta

13.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
185 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Michael A. Cotta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Cotta has authored 185 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Molecular Biology, 115 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 45 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Cotta's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (114 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (75 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (44 papers). Michael A. Cotta is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (114 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (75 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (44 papers). Michael A. Cotta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Japan. Michael A. Cotta's co-authors include Badal C. Saha, Nasib Qureshi, Bruce S. Dien, Terence R. Whitehead, Loren B. Iten, Ronald E. Hector, Stephen R. Hughes, Thomas W. Jeffries, Nancy N. Nichols and James B. Russell and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Cotta

185 papers receiving 9.6k citations

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Dilute acid pretreatment, enzymatic saccharification and fermentation of wheat straw to ethanol

2005 588 citations Badal C. Saha, Loren B. Iten et al. profile →
Bacteria engineered for fuel ethanol production: current status

2003 534 citations Bruce S. Dien, Michael A. Cotta et al. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Biological pretreatment of corn stover with NRRL-13108 for enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis and efficient ethanol production 2017 ·Biotechnology Progress ·Badal C. Saha, Gregory J. Kennedy, Nasib Qureshi, Michael A. Cotta	1
2	Evolved strains of Scheffersomyces stipitis achieving high ethanol productivity on acid- and base-pretreated biomass hydrolyzate at high solids loading 2015 ·Biotechnology for Biofuels ·Patricia J. Slininger, (unknown), Stephanie R. Thompson, Bruce S. Dien, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Venkatesh Balan, Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Nirmal Uppugundla, Bruce E. Dale, Michael A. Cotta	35
3	Enhancement of xylose utilization from corn stover by a recombinant Escherichia coli strain for ethanol production 2015 ·Bioresource Technology ·Badal C. Saha, Nasib Qureshi, Gregory J. Kennedy, Michael A. Cotta	30
4	Alkaline Peroxide Pretreatment of Corn Stover for Enzymatic Saccharification and Ethanol Production 2014 ·Industrial Biotechnology ·Badal C. Saha, Michael A. Cotta	21
5	Synthetic resin-bound truncated Candida antarctica lipase B for production of fatty acid alkyl esters by transesterification of corn and soybean oils with ethanol or butanol 2012 ·Journal of Biotechnology ·Stephen R. Hughes, Bryan R. Moser, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jon A. Friesen, Kenneth M. Bischoff, Marjorie A. Jones, (unknown), Sookie S. Bang, Ken Tasaki, Kenneth M. Doll, Nasib Qureshi, Siqing Liu, Badal C. Saha, John S. Jackson, Michael A. Cotta, Joseph O. Rich, (unknown)	6
6	Response surface optimization of corn stover pretreatment using dilute phosphoric acid for enzymatic hydrolysis and ethanol production 2012 ·Bioresource Technology ·Ayşe Avcı, Badal C. Saha, Bruce S. Dien, Gregory J. Kennedy, Michael A. Cotta	106
7	Two novel species Enterococcus lemanii sp. nov. and Enterococcus eurekensis sp. nov., isolated from a swine-manure storage pit 2012 ·Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ·Michael A. Cotta, Terence R. Whitehead, Enevold Falsen, Edward R. B. Moore, Paul A. Lawson	5
8	Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry investigation of enzyme-resistant xylooligosaccharide structures of switchgrass associated with ammonia pretreatment, enzymatic saccharification, and fermentation 2012 ·Bioresource Technology ·Michael J. Bowman, Bruce S. Dien, Ronald E. Hector, Gautam Sarath, Michael A. Cotta	20
9	Conversion of starch from dry common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to ethanol 2011 ·Industrial Crops and Products ·Nancy N. Nichols, Nongnuch Sutivisedsak, Bruce S. Dien, Atanu Biswas, William C. Lesch, Michael A. Cotta	8
10	Ethanol production from wheat straw by recombinant Escherichia coli strain FBR5 at high solid loading 2011 ·Bioresource Technology ·Badal C. Saha, Nancy N. Nichols, Michael A. Cotta	50
11	Catabolic Pathway for the Production of Skatole and Indoleacetic Acid by the Acetogen Clostridium drakei , Clostridium scatologenes , and Swine Manure 2008 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Terence R. Whitehead, Neil P. J. Price, Harold L. Drake, Michael A. Cotta	92
12	Engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain for improved xylose utilization with a three-plasmid SUMO yeast expression system 2008 ·Plasmid ·Stephen R. Hughes, David E. Sterner, Kenneth M. Bischoff, Ronald E. Hector, Patrick F. Dowd, Nasib Qureshi, Sookie S. Bang, (unknown), Tania Chakrabarty, Eric T. Johnson, Bruce S. Dien, Jeffrey A. Mertens, (unknown), Siqing Liu, Tauseef R. Butt, Joshua LaBaer, Michael A. Cotta, Joseph O. Rich	19
13	Structure-function relationships of a catalytically efficient β-D-xylosidase 2007 ·Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology ·Douglas B. Jordan, (unknown), Christopher A. Dunlap, Terence R. Whitehead, Michael A. Cotta	45
14	Expression of an AT-rich xylanase gene from the anaerobic fungus Orpinomyces sp. strain PC-2 in and secretion of the heterologous enzyme by Hypocrea jecorina 2007 ·Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology ·Xinliang Li, Christopher D. Skory, Eduardo Ximenes, Douglas B. Jordan, Bruce S. Dien, Stephen R. Hughes, Michael A. Cotta	22
15	Enzyme characterization for hydrolysis of AFEX and liquid hot-water pretreated distillers’ grains and their conversion to ethanol 2007 ·Bioresource Technology ·Bruce S. Dien, Eduardo Ximenes, Patricia J. O’Bryan, Mohammed Moniruzzaman, (unknown), Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E. Dale, Michael A. Cotta	125
16	Dilute Acid Pretreatment, Enzymatic Saccharification, and Fermentation of Rice Hulls to Ethanol 2005 ·Biotechnology Progress ·Badal C. Saha, Loren B. Iten, Michael A. Cotta, Y. Victor Wu	308
17	The U.S. corn ethanol industry: An overview of current technology and future prospects 2002 ·International sugar journal ·Bruce S. Dien, Rodney J. Bothast, Nancy N. Nichols, Michael A. Cotta	44
18	Sequence Analyses of a Broad Host-Range Plasmid Containing erm T from a Tylosin-Resistant Lactobacillus sp. Isolated from Swine Feces 2001 ·Current Microbiology ·Terence R. Whitehead, Michael A. Cotta	35
19	Phylogenetic diversity of methanogenic archaea in swine waste storage pits 1999 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Terence R. Whitehead, Michael A. Cotta	64
20	Cloning, Sequence, and Expression of the L-(+) Lactate Dehydrogenase of Streptococcus bovis 1997 ·Current Microbiology ·(unknown), JoMay Chow, Terence R. Whitehead, Michael A. Cotta	24

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