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Novel approaches to the biosynthesis of vanillin
N J Walton1, A Narbad, C Faulds
1Food Safety Science Division, Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Colney, NR4 7UA, Norwich, UK. nicholas.walton@bbsrc.ac.uk
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
|October 12, 2000
Abstract:
Microorganisms able to produce vanillin in excess of 6g/l from ferulic acid have now been isolated. In Pseudomonas strains, the metabolic pathway from eugenol via ferulic acid to vanillin has been characterised at the enzymic and molecular genetic levels. Attempts to introduce vanillin production into other organisms by genetic engineering have begun.