Pathway engineering as an enabling synthetic biology tool

Dawn T. Eriksen; Sijin Li; Huimin Zhao

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-394430-6.00003-0

Pathway engineering as an enabling synthetic biology tool

Dawn T. Eriksen
, Sijin Li
, Huimin Zhao

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Abstract

Microbial synthesis of value-added compounds often depends upon the creation or introduction of heterologous metabolic pathways into production hosts. However, there are many challenges in the engineering of a pathway and even more issues in optimizing it for the highest product yield. In this chapter, we will review a wide variety of computational and experimental tools that have been developed to design, construct, and optimize metabolic pathways. In addition, we will illustrate the applications of these tools in synthetic biology by highlighting the engineering of three metabolic pathways involved in the synthesis of glucaric acid, 1,4-butanediol, and 1,3-propanediol. © 2013

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Synthetic Biology
Subtitle of host publication	Tools and Applications
Editors	Huimin Zhao
Publisher	Academic Press
Pages	43-61
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	9780123944306
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-394430-6.00003-0
State	Published - 2013

Keywords

DNA assembly
Metabolic flux balancing
Pathway engineering
Pathway optimization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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