Title |
Synthetic metabolic engineering-a novel, simple technology for designing a chimeric metabolic pathway
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Published in |
Microbial Cell Factories, September 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1475-2859-11-120 |
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Authors |
Xiaoting Ye, Kohsuke Honda, Takaaki Sakai, Kenji Okano, Takeshi Omasa, Ryuichi Hirota, Akio Kuroda, Hisao Ohtake |
Abstract |
The integration of biotechnology into chemical manufacturing has been recognized as a key technology to build a sustainable society. However, the practical applications of biocatalytic chemical conversions are often restricted due to their complexities involving the unpredictability of product yield and the troublesome controls in fermentation processes. One of the possible strategies to overcome these limitations is to eliminate the use of living microorganisms and to use only enzymes involved in the metabolic pathway. Use of recombinant mesophiles producing thermophilic enzymes at high temperature results in denaturation of indigenous proteins and elimination of undesired side reactions; consequently, highly selective and stable biocatalytic modules can be readily prepared. By rationally combining those modules together, artificial synthetic pathways specialized for chemical manufacturing could be designed and constructed. |
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