Abstract
A method for in vivo evolution of metabolic pathways in bacteria is described. This method is a powerful tool for synthetic biology type of metabolic design and can lead to the creation of new metabolic pathways or the improvement of existing metabolic enzymes. The proposed strategy also permits to relate the evolved phenotype to the genotype and to analyze evolution phenomenon at the genetic, biochemical, and metabolic levels.
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This work was supported through several independent collaborations with both Genencor and Metabolic Explorer companies, FP5 European project (contract nº QLRT-1999-01364), and the French National Research Agency (contract PRIB-2005 Bioglycol).
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Meynial-Salles, I., Soucaille, P. (2012). Creation of New Metabolic Pathways or Improvement of Existing Metabolic Enzymes by In Vivo Evolution in Escherichia coli . In: Cheng, Q. (eds) Microbial Metabolic Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 834. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-483-4_6
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