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Rational and combinatorial approaches to engineering styrene production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Microbial cell factories - 21 Aug 2014
McKenna Rebekah, Thompson Brian, Pugh Shawn, Nielsen David R
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BACKGROUND: Styrene is an important building-block petrochemical and monomer used to produce numerous plastics. Whereas styrene bioproduction by Escherichia coli was previously reported, the long-term potential of this approach will ultimately rely on the use of hosts with improved industrial phenotypes, such as the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. RESULTS: Classical metabolic evolution was first applied to...
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