ERC Consolidator Grant · 2016
Enforced ATP wasting as a general design principle to rationally engineer microbial cell factories
One global challenge of humanity in the 21st century is the shift from a petrochemical to a bio-based production of chemicals and fuels. An enabling technology towards this goal is metabolic engineering which uses computational and experimental methods to construct microbial cell factories with desired properties. While it has been shown that genetically engineered microorganisms can, in principle, produce a broad range of chemicals, novel approaches to improve the performance of those strains are urgently needed to develop economically viable bioprocesses. To this end, we propose a new metabolic design principle to rationally engineer cell factories with high performance. Supported by a…
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