Zoe A. Kellermyer

Overcoming protocatechuate and catechol accumulation in muconic acid production via adaptive laboratory evolution and metabolic engineering in Pseudomonas putida

Results indicate that catechol, not PCA, is the principal bottleneck in muconate production via the PCA decarboxylation route originally demonstrated by Draths et al., refining the understanding of pathway limitations and offering new strategies for improving rate, yield, and strain resilience in muconate bioproduction.