Production of fatty acid-derived valuable chemicals in synthetic microbes
Fatty acid derivatives, such as hydroxy fatty acids, fatty alcohols, fatty acid methyl/ethyl esters and fatty alka(e)nes, have a wide range of industrial applications including plastics, lubricants and fuels. Currently, these chemicals are obtained mainly through chemical synthesis, which is complex...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00078/full |