Dual pathway for metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli to produce the highly valuable hydroxytyrosol.

One of the most abundant phenolic compounds traced in olive tissues is hydroxytyrosol (HT), a molecule that has been attributed with a pile of beneficial effects, well documented by many epidemiological studies and thus adding value to products containing it. Strong antioxidant capacity and protecti...

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Main Authors: Emmanouil Trantas, Eleni Navakoudis, Theofilos Pavlidis, Theodora Nikou, Maria Halabalaki, Leandros Skaltsounis, Filippos Ververidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212243