Before revision: However, DuPont has managed to engineer this glycerol functionality into a strain of Escherichia coli bacterium (hence referred to here as " E. coli "), thereby allowing industrial-scale fermentation of glycerol in a bioreactor.
After revision: However, DuPont has managed to engineer this glycerol functionality into a strain of Escherichia coli ( E. coli ), a common bacterium, thereby allowing industrial-scale fermentation of glycerol in a bioreactor.