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CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 6, Pages 1054-1060Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.02.021
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- CREST
- JST
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23681015] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The development of synthetic biology has transformed microbes into useful factories for producing valuable polymers and/or their precursors from renewable biomass. Recent progress at the interface of chemistry and biology has enabled the production of a variety of new biopolymers with properties that substantially differ from their petroleum-derived counterparts. This review touches on recent trials and achievements in the field of biopolymer synthesis, including chemo-enzymatically synthesized aliphatic polyesters, wholly biosynthesized lactate-based polyesters, polyhydroxyalkanoates and other unusual bacterially synthesized polyesters. The expanding diversities in structure and the material properties of biopolymers are key for exploring practical applications. The enzyme and metabolic engineering approaches toward this goal are discussed by shedding light on the successful case studies.
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