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Title: Metabolic engineering strategies for microbial synthesis of oleochemicals

Abstract

Microbial synthesis of oleochemicals has advanced significantly in the last decade. Microbes have been engineered to convert renewable substrates to a wide range of molecules that are ordinarily made from plant oils. This approach is attractive because it can reduce a motivation for converting tropical rainforest into farmland while simultaneously enabling access to molecules that are currently expensive to produce from oil crops. In the last decade, enzymes responsible for producing oleochemicals in nature have been identified, strategies to circumvent native regulation have been developed, and high yielding strains have been designed, built, and successfully demonstrated. Furthermore, this review will describe the metabolic pathways that lead to the diverse molecular features found in natural oleochemicals, highlight successful metabolic engineering strategies, and comment on areas where future work could further advance the field.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2]
  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI (United States)
  2. Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg (Sweden)
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Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
2274735
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1357837; OSTI ID: 2279199
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0008744
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Metabolic Engineering
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 29; Journal ID: ISSN 1096-7176
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Oleochemical; Fatty acid; Metabolic engineering; Synthetic biology; Biodisesel

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Pfleger, Brian F., Gossing, Michael, and Nielsen, Jens. Metabolic engineering strategies for microbial synthesis of oleochemicals. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2015.01.009.
Pfleger, Brian F., Gossing, Michael, & Nielsen, Jens. Metabolic engineering strategies for microbial synthesis of oleochemicals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2015.01.009
Pfleger, Brian F., Gossing, Michael, and Nielsen, Jens. Sat . "Metabolic engineering strategies for microbial synthesis of oleochemicals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2015.01.009. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2274735.
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author = {Pfleger, Brian F. and Gossing, Michael and Nielsen, Jens},
abstractNote = {Microbial synthesis of oleochemicals has advanced significantly in the last decade. Microbes have been engineered to convert renewable substrates to a wide range of molecules that are ordinarily made from plant oils. This approach is attractive because it can reduce a motivation for converting tropical rainforest into farmland while simultaneously enabling access to molecules that are currently expensive to produce from oil crops. In the last decade, enzymes responsible for producing oleochemicals in nature have been identified, strategies to circumvent native regulation have been developed, and high yielding strains have been designed, built, and successfully demonstrated. Furthermore, this review will describe the metabolic pathways that lead to the diverse molecular features found in natural oleochemicals, highlight successful metabolic engineering strategies, and comment on areas where future work could further advance the field.},
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journal = {Metabolic Engineering},
number = ,
volume = 29,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2015}
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