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Synthetic biology strategies for microbial biosynthesis of plant natural products

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  • Aaron Cravens

    (Stanford University)

  • James Payne

    (Stanford University)

  • Christina D. Smolke

    (Stanford University
    Chan Zuckerberg Biohub)

Abstract

Metabolic engineers endeavor to create a bio-based manufacturing industry using microbes to produce fuels, chemicals, and medicines. Plant natural products (PNPs) are historically challenging to produce and are ubiquitous in medicines, flavors, and fragrances. Engineering PNP pathways into new hosts requires finding or modifying a suitable host to accommodate the pathway, planning and implementing a biosynthetic route to the compound, and discovering or engineering enzymes for missing steps. In this review, we describe recent developments in metabolic engineering at the level of host, pathway, and enzyme, and discuss how the field is approaching ever more complex biosynthetic opportunities.

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  • Aaron Cravens & James Payne & Christina D. Smolke, 2019. "Synthetic biology strategies for microbial biosynthesis of plant natural products," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 10(1), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-09848-w
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09848-w
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