Synthetic methylotrophy: engineering the production of biofuels and chemicals based on the biology of aerobic methanol utilization.

Autor: Whitaker WB; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & The Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE 19711, USA., Sandoval NR; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & The Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE 19711, USA., Bennett RK; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & The Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE 19711, USA., Fast AG; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & The Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE 19711, USA., Papoutsakis ET; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering & The Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, 15 Innovation Way, Newark, DE 19711, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, USA. Electronic address: papoutsakis@dbi.udel.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Current opinion in biotechnology [Curr Opin Biotechnol] 2015 Jun; Vol. 33, pp. 165-75. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Mar 19.
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2015.01.007
Abstrakt: Synthetic methylotrophy is the development of non-native methylotrophs that can utilize methane and methanol as sole carbon and energy sources or as co-substrates with carbohydrates to produce metabolites as biofuels and chemicals. The availability of methane (from natural gas) and its oxidation product, methanol, has been increasing, while prices have been decreasing, thus rendering them as attractive fermentation substrates. As they are more reduced than most carbohydrates, methane and methanol, as co-substrates, can enhance the yields of biologically produced metabolites. Here we discuss synthetic biology and metabolic engineering strategies based on the native biology of aerobic methylotrophs for developing synthetic strains grown on methanol, with Escherichia coli as the prototype.
(Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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