ATP Drives Efficient Terpene Biosynthesis in Marine Thraustochytrids

Aiqing Zhang; Kaya Mernitz; Chao Wu; Wei Xiong; Yaodong He; Guangyi Wang; Xin Wang

doi:10.1128/mBio.00881-21

mBio (Jun 2021)

ATP Drives Efficient Terpene Biosynthesis in Marine Thraustochytrids

Aiqing Zhang,
Kaya Mernitz,
Chao Wu,
Wei Xiong,
Yaodong He,
Guangyi Wang,
Xin Wang

Affiliations

Aiqing Zhang: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Kaya Mernitz: Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
Chao Wu: Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Wei Xiong: Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA
Yaodong He: School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Guangyi Wang: ORCiD; School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Xin Wang: ORCiD; Department of Microbiology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00881-21
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 3

Abstract

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Terpenoids are a large class of lipid molecules with important biological functions and diverse industrial and medicinal applications. Metabolic engineering for terpene production has been hindered by the low-flux distribution to its biosynthesis pathway.

Published in mBio

ISSN: 2161-2129 (Print); 2150-7511 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/mbio

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