Awakening sleeping beauty: production of propionic acid in Escherichia coli through the sbm operon requires the activity of a methylmalonyl-CoA epimerase

Awakening sleeping beauty: production of propionic acid in Escherichia coli through the sbm operon requires the activity of a methylmalonyl-CoA epimerase

Abstract Background Propionic acid is used primarily as a food preservative with smaller applications as a chemical building block for the production of many products including fabrics, cosmetics, drugs, and plastics. Biological production using propionibacteria would be competitive against chemical...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Axayacatl Gonzalez-Garcia, Tim McCubbin, Annalena Wille, Manuel Plan, Lars Keld Nielsen, Esteban Marcellin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
Subjects:
Propionic acid
Methylmalonyl-COA epimerase
Propionibacterium acidipropionici
Escherichia coli
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12934-017-0735-4

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