It is widely recognized that sustainable replacements for fossil fuels and chemicals are urgently needed.  By harnessing the efficiency of fatty acid biosynthesis and employing an engineering strategy that places all chemical unit operations within a single whole cell catalyst and allows easy product recovery, LS9 has enabled efficient biosynthetic routes and processes to a diversity of sustainable fuels and chemicals, including esters, alcohols, alkenes, and alkanes.LS9 uses state-of-the-art synthetic biology techniques to rapidly design, construct and evaluate its engineered microbes in all LS9 programs. This presentation will focus on the design, construction, and improvement of our microbial biocatalysts and progress in the development and scale up of our fuel and chemical processes.

Engineering fatty acid biosynthesis for the production of sustainable fuels and chemicals

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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