Uses of Multi-Objective Flux Analysis for Optimization of Microbial Production of Secondary Metabolites.

ABSTRACT: Secondary metabolites are not essential for the growth of microorganisms, but they play a critical role in how microbes interact with their surroundings. In addition to this important ecological role, secondary metabolites also have a variety of agricultural, medicinal, and industrial uses, and thus the examination of secondary metabolism of plants and microbes is a growing scientific field. While the chemical production of certain secondary metabolites is possible, industrial-scale microbial production is a green and economically attractive alternative. This is even more true, given the advances in bioengineering that allow us to alter the workings of microbes in order to increase their production of compounds of interest. This type of engineering requires detailed knowledge of the "chass

SUBMITTER: Griesemer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10536367 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature