Open AccessAdvances in bio‐based production of dicarboxylic acids longer than C4
Author(s) -
Yu JiaLe,
Qian ZhiGang,
Zhong JianJiang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
engineering in life sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.547
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1618-2863
pISSN - 1618-0240
DOI - 10.1002/elsc.201800023
Subject(s) - biochemical engineering , synthetic biology , petrochemical , economic shortage , metabolic engineering , production (economics) , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , engineering , biochemistry , enzyme , environmental engineering , linguistics , philosophy , macroeconomics , government (linguistics) , economics
Growing concerns of environmental pollution and fossil resource shortage are major driving forces for bio‐based production of chemicals traditionally from petrochemical industry. Dicarboxylic acids (DCAs) are important platform chemicals with large market and wide applications, and here the recent advances in bio‐based production of straight‐chain DCAs longer than C4 from biological approaches, especially by synthetic biology, are reviewed. A couple of pathways were recently designed and demonstrated for producing DCAs, even those ranging from C5 to C15, by employing respective starting units, extending units, and appropriate enzymes. Furthermore, in order to achieve higher production of DCAs, enormous efforts were made in engineering microbial hosts that harbored the biosynthetic pathways and in improving properties of biocatalytic elements to enhance metabolic fluxes toward target DCAs. Here we summarize and discuss the current advantages and limitations of related pathways, and also provide perspectives on synthetic pathway design and optimization for hyper‐production of DCAs.