Communications Biology (Dec 2022)

Engineering Pseudomonas putida KT2440 for chain length tailored free fatty acid and oleochemical production

  • Luis E. Valencia,
  • Matthew R. Incha,
  • Matthias Schmidt,
  • Allison N. Pearson,
  • Mitchell G. Thompson,
  • Jacob B. Roberts,
  • Marina Mehling,
  • Kevin Yin,
  • Ning Sun,
  • Asun Oka,
  • Patrick M. Shih,
  • Lars M. Blank,
  • John Gladden,
  • Jay D. Keasling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04336-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Pseudomonas putida has been engineered to produce medium chain length oleochemicals, including medium chain length free fatty acids and their ester forms, compounds which may be useful as biodiesel blending agents.