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Xiaoqiang Ma1, Hong Liang1, Smaranika Panda1
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Abstract:
Engineering microbes to produce value-added chemicals from C6/C5 sugars sometimes requires long biosynthetic pathways, which causes carbon loss due to involving multiple metabolic branch nodes, leading to a lower product yield. Using C2 feedstocks derived from gaseous, cellulosic, and plastic wastes could establish shorter biosynthetic pathways to produce some target chemicals, for example, acetyl-CoA-derived natural products. Utilizing these waste-derived feedstocks would also contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of the chemical industry. In this review, we highlighted the promising waste-processing technologies that could provide C2 feedstocks that are compatible with microbial fermentation. We also analyzed the recent metabolic engineering works in which the microorganisms/fermentation processes were modified/optimized to utilize acetate, ethanol, or ethylene glycol more efficiently.
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