New metabolic engineering strategy for effective sugar utilization by microbes improves bioproduction of polymer raw materials
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:40
in Biology & Nature
Using biomass and microbes to synthesize useful chemical compounds is an environmentally friendly alternative to petrochemical production, however it is difficult to produce sufficient amounts. A team has succeeded in improving the yield of the target chemical muconic acid by developing a new strategy to metabolically engineer the bacteria used in bioproduction, so that it would utilize different kinds of sugar absorbed from the biomass for separate aims.