Korean researchers ferment C5 platform chemicals

Engineered biosynthetic pathway of E. coli to produce 5AVA from glucose

In Korea, a research team led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology applied systems metabolic engineering approach to develop recombinant Escherichia coli for the production of 5-aminovaleric acid and glutaric acid, the promising C5 platform chemicals, by fermentation. (see more…)

… Full text: www.biofuelsdigest.com/biobased/2012/12/25/korean-researchers-ferment-c5-platform-chemicals/

Tags: L-lysine, DavB, DavA, GabT, GabD, glutaric acid

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BiofuelsDigest, 2012-12-25.

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Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

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