Metabolic Engineering of Microbial Strains for 1,2,4-Butanetriol Production: Progress and Future Perspectives.

Weibin Wang Mengrui Tao Kai Li Takahiro Bamba Cheng Cheng T. Hasunuma Akihiko Kondo N. Thongchul Shuai Zhao Jia-Xun Feng Xin-Qing Zhao Feng-Wu Bai

Jul 2026 · Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology · pp. 203-219 · 0 citations

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This chapter focuses on research progress in metabolic engineering of BT production, which mainly includes design of BT biosynthetic pathways for expression in bacterial and yeast cell factories, current metabolic engineering and process optimization strategies to optimize BT production, and utilizing lignocellulosic biomass as a sustainable feedstock for BT production.

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