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ReviewApplied and environmental microbiology2012

Toward biosynthetic design and implementation of Escherichia coli-derived paclitaxel and other heterologous polyisoprene compounds.

Ming Jiang, Gregory Stephanopoulos, Blaine A Pfeifer

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Review in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ming JiangDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Gregory Stephanopoulos
Blaine A Pfeifer

Funding

Metabolic Engineering for Microbial Taxol BiosynthesisR01GM085323 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI STEPHANOPOULOS, GREGORY · 2009 to 2012
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM085323NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM085323
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Escherichia coli offers unparalleled engineering capacity in the context of heterologous natural product biosynthesis. However, as with other heterologous hosts, cellular metabolism must be designed or redesigned to support final compound formation. This task is at once complicated and aided by the fact that the cell does not natively produce an abundance of natural products. As a result, the metabolic engineer avoids complicated interactions with native pathways closely associated with the outcome of interest, but this convenience is tempered by the need to implement the required metabolism to allow functional biosynthesis. This review focuses on engineering E. coli for the purpose of polyisoprene formation, as it is related to isoprenoid compounds currently being pursued through a heterologous approach. In particular, the review features the compound paclitaxel and early efforts to design and overproduce intermediates through E. coli.

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Metabolic EngineeringAntineoplastic AgentsBiosynthetic PathwaysEscherichia coliPaclitaxelTerpenesAntineoplastic AgentsPaclitaxelTerpenes

Identifiers

PMID22287010
PMCPMC3318847

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