Engineering yeast for de-novo synthesis of the insect repellent - nepetalactone
Meghan E. Davies, Daniel Tsyplenkov, Vincent J. J. Martin
This paper describes a platform for de novo synthesis of nepetalactone in yeast, achieving 3.10 mg/L/OD600 from simple sugars by optimizing pathway genes and deleting competing enzymes.
ACS Synthetic Biology · Nov 8, 2021Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology