A retrosynthetic biology approach to metabolic pathway design for therapeutic production.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Synthetic biology is used to develop cell factories for production of chemicals by constructively importing heterologous pathways into industrial microorganisms. In this work we present a retrosynthetic approach to the production of therapeutics with the goal of developing an in situ drug delivery device in host cells. Retrosynthesis, a concept originally proposed for synthetic chemistry, iteratively applies reversed chemical transformations (reversed enzyme-catalyzed reactions in the metabolic space) starting from a target product to reach precursors that are endogenous to the chassis. So far, a wider adoption of retrosynthesis into the manufacturing pipeline has been hindered by the complexity of enumerating all feasible biosynthetic pathways for a given compound.

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SUBMITTER: Carbonell P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3163555 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature