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CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 6, Pages 1061-1068Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.03.002
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Fermentation of carbohydrate substrates by microorganisms represents an attractive route for the manufacture of industrial chemicals from renewable resources. The technology to manipulate metabolism of bacteria and yeast, including the introduction of heterologous chemical pathways, has accelerated research in this field. However, the public literature contains very few examples of strains achieving the production metrics required for commercialization. This article presents the challenges in reaching commercial titer, yield, and productivity targets, along with other necessary strain and process characteristics. It then reviews various methods in systems biology, synthetic biology, enzyme engineering, and fermentation engineering which can be applied to strain improvement, and presents a strategy for using these tools to overcome the major hurdles on the path to commercialization.
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