Engineering a Synthetic Escherichia coli Coculture for Compartmentalized de novo Biosynthesis of Isobutyl Butyrate from Mixed Sugars
Hyeongmin Seo, Gillian Castro, Cong T. Trinh
This paper engineers a synthetic E. coli coculture to compartmentalize sugar utilization and ester biosynthesis pathways, achieving 31-fold higher isobutyl butyrate production than monocultures.
ACS Synthetic Biology · Dec 13, 2023Peer-reviewedSynthetic Biology