Programmable polyketide biosynthesis platform for production of aromatic compounds in yeast

Tadas Jakočiūnas*, Andreas K. Klitgaard, Eftychia Eva Kontou, Julie Bang Nielsen, Emil Thomsen, David Romero Suarez, Kai Blin, Christopher J. Petzold, Jennifer W. Gin, Yaojun Tong, Charlotte Held Gotfredsen, Pep Charusanti, Rasmus J. N. Frandsen, Tilmann Weber, Sang Yup Lee, Michael Krogh Jensen, Jay D. Keasling

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Abstract

To accelerate the shift to bio-based production and overcome complicated functional implementation of natural and artificial biosynthetic pathways to industry relevant organisms, development of new, versatile, bio-based production platforms is required. Here we present a novel yeast-based platform for biosynthesis of bacterial aromatic polyketides. The platform is based on a synthetic polyketide synthase system enabling a first demonstration of bacterial aromatic polyketide biosynthesis in a eukaryotic host.
Original languageEnglish
JournalSynthetic and Systems Biotechnology
Volume5
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)11-18
Number of pages8
ISSN2405-805x
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Natural productions
  • Synthetic biology
  • Aromatic polyketides
  • CRISPR/Cas9
  • Polyketide
  • Production platform in eukaryotes
  • Metabolic engineering
  • Biotechnology

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