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Synthetic methanol auxotrophy of Escherichia coli for methanol-dependent growth and production.
Metabolic engineering - 1 Sept 2018
Chen Chang-Ting, Chen Frederic Y-H, Bogorad Igor W, Wu Tung-Yun, Zhang Ruoxi, Lee Abraxa S, Liao James C
Abstract excerpt
Methanol is a potentially attractive substrate for bioproduction of chemicals because of the abundance of natural gas and biogas-derived methane. To move towards utilizing methanol as a sole carbon source, here we engineer an Escherichia coli strain to couple methanol utilization with growth on five-carbon (C5) sugars. By deleting essential genes in the pentose phosphate pathway for pentose utilization and...
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