Fatty Aldehydes in Cyanobacteria Are a Metabolically Flexible Precursor for a Diversity of Biofuel Products

We describe how pathway engineering can be used to convert a single intermediate derived from lipid biosynthesis, fatty aldehydes, into a variety of biofuel precursors including alkanes, free fatty acids and wax esters. In cyanobacteria, long-chain acyl-ACPs can be reduced to fatty aldehydes, and th...

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Main Authors: Kaiser, Brett K., Carleton, Michael, Hickman, Jason W., Miller, Cameron, Lawson, David, Budde, Mark, Warrener, Paul, Paredes, Angel, Mullapudi, Srinivas, Navarro, Patricia, Cross, Fred, Roberts, James M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3594298/