Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology (Mar 2020)

Unleashing the power of energy storage: Engineering β-oxidation pathways for polyketide production

  • Bin Wang,
  • Huimin Zhao

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 21 – 22

Abstract

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Overproduction of polyketides has been a challenge for metabolic engineering for decades. However, recent studies have demonstrated that in both native host and heterologous host, engineering β -oxidation pathways can lead to dramatic improvement of polyketide production. Keywords: Polyketide, Beta-oxidation pathway, Metabolic engineering, Triacylglycerols