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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli K-12
SUBMITTER: Ee-Been Goh
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-32561 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Applied and environmental microbiology 20111028 1
We have engineered Escherichia coli to overproduce saturated and monounsaturated aliphatic methyl ketones in the C₁₁ to C₁₅ (diesel) range; this group of methyl ketones includes 2-undecanone and 2-tridecanone, which are of importance to the flavor and fragrance industry and also have favorable cetane numbers (as we report here). We describe specific improvements that resulted in a 700-fold enhancement in methyl ketone titer relative to that of a fatty acid-overproducing E. coli strain, including ...[more]