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Zhe Zhao1, Weihan Chen1, Hongwei Yu1
1Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering (Education Ministry), College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Smart Biomaterials, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Institute of Bioengineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Terpenoid-based biofuels represent a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels with superior energy densities and combustion properties. However, achieving industrial-scale production requires overcoming multiple bottlenecks: heterologous enzyme incompatibility, metabolic flux imbalance, product toxicity, and economic viability. This review synthesizes recent breakthroughs in addressing these challenges through enzyme engineering, metabolic rewiring, host tolerance enhancement, and feedstock utilization. Simultaneously, the field is positioned at a critical juncture where convergent technologies - generative artificial intelligence for protein discovery, synthetic organelles via liquid-liquid phase separation, and engineering of non-natural terpenoid scaffolds (C₁₁, C₁₆) - promise transformative advances. This review provides a roadmap integrating these emerging capabilities to advance terpenoid-based biofuels toward commercial viability.
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