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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2012

Synthetic pathway for production of five-carbon alcohols from isopentenyl diphosphate.

Howard H Chou, Jay D Keasling

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Article 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 26 papers.

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26 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Howard H ChouUCSF-UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Jay D Keasling

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic biological pathways could enhance the development of novel processes to produce chemicals from renewable resources. On the basis of models that describe the evolution of metabolic pathways and enzymes in nature, we developed a framework to rationally identify enzymes able to catalyze reactions on new substrates that overcomes one of the major bottlenecks in the assembly of a synthetic biological pathway. We verified the framework by implementing a pathway with two novel enzymatic reactions to convert isopentenyl diphosphate into 3-methyl-3-butenol, 3-methyl-2-butenol, and 3-methylbutanol. To overcome competition with native pathways that share the same substrate, we engineered two bifunctional enzymes that redirect metabolic flux toward the synthetic pathway. Taken together, our work demonstrates a new approach to the engineering of novel synthetic pathways in the cell.

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Metabolic EngineeringAlcoholsComputational BiologyEscherichia coliHemiterpenesMetabolic Networks and PathwaysModels, BiologicalOrganophosphorus CompoundsAlcoholsHemiterpenesisopentenyl pyrophosphateOrganophosphorus Compounds

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PMID22941086
PMCPMC3485928

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