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Microbial Synthesis of Pinene

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It is demonstrated that the GPP concentration available to PS for cyclization alters the pinene isomer ratio, and it is speculated that pinene toxicity was limiting production; however, toxicity should not be limiting at current titers.
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The volumetric heating values of today’s biofuels are too low to power energy-intensive aircraft, rockets, and missiles. Recently, pinene dimers were shown to have a volumetric heating value simila...

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Fuelling the future: microbial engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels

TL;DR: This Review discusses how microorganisms can be explored for the production of next-generation biofuels, based on the ability of bacteria and fungi to use lignocellulose; through direct CO2 conversion by microalgae; using lithoautotrophs driven by solar electricity; or through the capacity of microorganisms to use methane generated from landfill.
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A comprehensive metabolic map for production of bio-based chemicals

TL;DR: This Review provides a comprehensive overview of biological and chemical routes for the synthesis of industrial chemicals derived from key precursor metabolites of central carbon metabolic pathways, and visualizes the results in a global bio-based chemicals map.
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Tolerance engineering in bacteria for the production of advanced biofuels and chemicals

TL;DR: Strain engineering is reviewed, primarily as it pertains to bacterial solvent tolerance, and the benefits and challenges associated with the expression of membrane-localized transporters in improving solvent tolerance and production are reviewed.
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Lycopene overproduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through combining pathway engineering with host engineering

TL;DR: Saccharomyces cerevisiae was engineered to produce lycopene in this study and this study provides a good reference of combinatorial engineering of host cell and heterologous pathway for microbial overproduction of pharmaceutical and chemical products.
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Isoprenoid Drugs, Biofuels, and Chemicals—Artemisinin, Farnesene, and Beyond

TL;DR: A brief review of the numerous isoprenoid compounds that have found use as pharmaceuticals, flavors, commodity chemicals, and, most importantly, advanced biofuels is provided, and the metabolic engineering strategies that were used to produce these compounds successfully in microbial hosts are highlighted.
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Protein structure prediction on the Web: a case study using the Phyre server.

TL;DR: This protocol provides a guide to interpreting the output of structure prediction servers in general and one such tool in particular, the protein homology/analogy recognition engine (Phyre), which can reliably detect up to twice as many remote homologies as standard sequence-profile searching.
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Quantitative prediction of cellular metabolism with constraint-based models: the COBRA Toolbox v2.0

TL;DR: The constraint-based reconstruction and analysis toolbox as discussed by the authors is a software package running in the Matlab environment, which allows for quantitative prediction of cellular behavior using a constraintbased approach and allows predictive computations of both steady-state and dynamic optimal growth behavior, the effects of gene deletions, comprehensive robustness analyses, sampling the range of possible cellular metabolic states and the determination of network modules.
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Engineering a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for production of terpenoids

TL;DR: The strains developed in this study can serve as platform hosts for the production of any terpenoid compound for which a terpene synthase gene is available, and are the universal precursors to all isoprenoids.
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