Expanding beyond canonical metabolism: Interfacing alternative elements, synthetic biology, and metabolic engineering

Metabolic engineering offers an exquisite capacity to produce new molecules in a renewable manner. However, most industrial applications have focused on only a small subset of elements from the periodic table, centered around carbon biochemistry. This review aims to illustrate the expanse of chemica...

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Main Authors: Kevin B. Reed, Hal S. Alper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2018-03-01
Series:Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405805X17300832