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Synthetic biology opens a new door for sustainable and effective production of flavors and fragrances. It is achieved through the engineering of biosynthetic pathways for valuable compounds of interests in the microbial hosts such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Escherichia coli. This chapter focuses on the current state-of-art studies in pathway engineering for the production of functional isoprenoids , including monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes , as well as apocarotenoids . The relevant genetic manipulations on biosynthetic genes and enzymes performed in the last decade have been summarized. Various approaches, techniques to increase production titers of flavor compounds, and critical challenges have been highlighted and discussed in this chapter.
These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Mikš-Krajnik, M., Zoglowek, M., Buron-Moles, G., Forster, J. (2016). Microbial Production of Flavors and Fragrances. In: Lee, S. (eds) Consequences of Microbial Interactions with Hydrocarbons, Oils, and Lipids: Production of Fuels and Chemicals. Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31421-1_375-1
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