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CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue -, Pages 71-78Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.10.004
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Antioxidants are biological molecules with the ability to protect vital metabolites from harmful oxidation. Due to this fascinating role, their beneficial effects on human health are of paramount importance. Traditional approaches using solvent-based extraction from food/non-food sources and chemical synthesis are often expensive, exhaustive, and detrimental to the environment. With the advent of metabolic engineering tools, the successful reconstitution of heterologous pathways in Escherichia coli and other microorganisms provides a more exciting and amenable alternative to meet the increasing demand of natural antioxidants. In this review, we elucidate the recent progress in metabolic engineering efforts for the microbial production of antioxidant food ingredients polyphenols, carotenoids, and antioxidant vitamins.
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