Redirection of the central metabolism of Klebsiella pneumoniae towards dihydroxyacetone production

Abstract Background Klebsiella pneumoniae is a bacterium that can be used as producer for numerous chemicals. Glycerol can be catabolised by K. pneumoniae and dihydroxyacetone is an intermediate of this catabolism pathway. Here dihydroxyacetone and glycerol were produced from glucose by this bacteri...

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Main Authors: Shaoqi Sun, Yike Wang, Lin Shu, Xiyang Lu, Qinghui Wang, Chenguang Zhu, Jiping Shi, Gary J. Lye, Frank Baganz, Jian Hao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-021-01608-0