Journal
CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages 39-46Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.10.002
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Novo Nordisk Fonden [NNF10CC1016517, NNF15OC0016592, NNF14OC0009579] Funding Source: researchfish
- NNF Center for Biosustainability [Yeast Metabolic Engineering] Funding Source: researchfish
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Traditional oleochemical industry chemically processes animal fats and plant oils to produce detergents, lubricants, biodiesel, plastics, coatings, and other products. Biotechnology offers an alternative process, where the same oleochemicals can be produced from abundant biomass feedstocks using microbial catalysis. This review summarizes the recent advances in the engineering of microbial metabolism for production of fatty acid-derived products. We highlight the efforts in engineering the central carbon metabolism, redox metabolism, controlling the chain length of the products, and obtaining metabolites with different functionalities. The prospects of commercializing microbial oleochemicals are also discussed.
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