Recent applications of synthetic biology tools for yeast metabolic engineering

Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

Abstract

The last 20 years of metabolic engineering has enabled bio-based production of fuels and chemicals from renewable carbon sources using cost-effective bioprocesses. Much of this work has been accomplished using engineered microorganisms that act as chemical factories. Although the time required to engineer microbial chemical factories has steadily decreased, improvement is still needed. Through the development of synthetic biology tools for key microbial hosts, it should be possible to further decrease the development times and improve the reliability of the resulting microorganism. Together with continuous decreases in price and improvements in DNA synthesis, assembly and sequencing, synthetic biology tools will rationalize time-consuming strain engineering, improve control of metabolic fluxes, and diversify screening assays for cellular metabolism. This review outlines some recently developed synthetic biology tools and their application to improve production of chemicals and fuels in yeast. Finally, we provide a perspective for the challenges that lie ahead.
Original languageEnglish
JournalFEMS Yeast Research
Volume15
Issue number1
Number of pages10
ISSN1567-1356
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Keywords

  • Synthetic biology
  • Production
  • Chemicals

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Recent applications of synthetic biology tools for yeast metabolic engineering'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this