Metabolic engineering of Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 for production of pyridine-dicarboxylic acids from lignin

Abstract Genetic modification of Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 was carried out in order to optimise the production of pyridine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid and pyridine-2,5-dicarboxylic acid bioproducts from lignin or lignocellulose breakdown, via insertion of either the Sphingobium SYK-6 ligAB genes or Paenibac...

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Main Authors: Edward M. Spence, Leonides Calvo-Bado, Paul Mines, Timothy D. H. Bugg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-020-01504-z