Jong‐Won Lee

The paper presents a framework for engineering microbial biosynthesis of butyryl-CoA-derived esters with controllable selectivity, achieving significant production increases in target compounds.

The paper repurposes chloramphenicol acetyltransferases to create efficient ester biosynthesis enzymes, demonstrating high titer and conversion in microbial hosts.

This paper demonstrates the microbial biosynthesis of lactate esters from fermentable sugars using a modular E. coli system, achieving a 4.96-fold increase in ethyl lactate production.