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Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for limonene and perillyl alcohol production

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A strain containing all mevalonate pathway genes in a single plasmid produced limonene at titers over 400mg/L from glucose, substantially higher than has been achieved in the past.
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This article is published in Metabolic Engineering.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 328 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perillyl alcohol & Limonene.

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Precursor prioritization for p-cymene production through synergistic integration of biology and chemistry

TL;DR: In this article , the authors demonstrate p-cymene production through the integration of biosynthesis and heterogeneous catalysis and show how a preferred biologically derived precursor could be determined.
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Biosynthesis of cannabigerol and cannabigerolic acid: the gateways to further cannabinoid production

TL;DR: In this paper , the identification and repurposing of aromatic prenyltransferase (AtaPT), which when coupled with native enzymes of C. sativa can form an Escherichia coli production system for CBGA in cell lysates and CBG in whole cells.
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Biofuel production from renewable feedstocks: Progress through metabolic engineering

TL;DR: A brief overview of the worldwide scenario of biofuel production and the advancements made in their synthesis using metabolic engineering is provided in this paper , where the availability of genomic sequences of microbial species and the development of genome-scale metabolic models have aided in the fast-track reconstruction of cellular metabolism, which can assist in metabolic engineering.
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TL;DR: The engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce high titres (up to 100 mg l-1) of artemisinic acid using an engineered mevalonate pathway, amorphadiene synthase, and a novel cytochrome P450 monooxygenase from A. annua that performs a three-step oxidation of amorpha-4,11-diene to art Artemisinic acid.
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Analysis of gene control signals by DNA fusion and cloning in Escherichia coli

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Engineering a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for production of terpenoids

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What is use the of metabolic engineering? limonene?

Metabolic engineering is used to produce limonene, a valuable monoterpene used in the production of commodity chemicals and medicinal compounds.