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ArticleBiotechnology for biofuels2018

An engineered fatty acid synthase combined with a carboxylic acid reductase enables de novo production of 1-octanol in

Sandra Henritzi, Manuel Fischer, Martin Grininger, Mislav Oreb, Eckhard Boles

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Article in Biotechnology for biofuels, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Engineering carboxylic acid reductase for selective synthesis of medium-chain fatty alcohols in yeast.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  10. Metabolic engineering communications · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sandra Henritzi1Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular Bioscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Manuel Fischer2Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Cluster of Excellence "Macromolecular Complexes", Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 15, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Martin Grininger2Institute of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Cluster of Excellence "Macromolecular Complexes", Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 15, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Mislav Oreb1Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular Bioscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Eckhard Boles1Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Molecular Bioscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
Goethe University Frankfurt · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe ideal biofuel should not only be a regenerative fuel from renewable feedstocks, but should also be compatible with the existing fuel distribution infrastructure and with normal car engines. As the so-called drop-in biofuel, the fatty alcohol 1-octanol has been described as a valuable substitute for diesel and jet fuels and has already been produced fermentatively from sugars in small amounts with engineered bacteria via reduction of thioesterase-mediated premature release of octanoic acid from fatty acid synthase or via a reversal of the β-oxidation pathway.

resultsThe previously engineered short-chain acyl-CoA producing yeast Fas1

conclusionsBy providing chain length control via an engineered octanoyl-CoA producing fatty acid synthase, we were able to specifically produce 1-octanol with

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1-octanolBiofuelCaprylic acidCarboxylic acid reductaseFatty acid synthaseFatty alcoholOctanoic acidSaccharomyces cerevisiaeShort-chain fatty acidsYeast

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PMID29881455
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