Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
6487668 Current Opinion in Biotechnology 2015 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

- Advances in metabolic engineering have enabled design of microbial cell factories.
- Carbon efficiency of microbial biocatalysts is limited by metabolic CO2 losses.
- Phosphoketolase pathway engineering can facilitate enhanced carbon efficiency.
- Recent advances and prospects for phosphoketolase pathway engineering are examined.
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