US EPA

6933551 

Journal Article 

Review 

Metabolic engineering of microorganisms for production of aromatic compounds 

Huccetogullari, D; Luo, Z; Lee, S; , 

2019 

1 

Microbial Cell Factories
ISSN: 1475-2859
EISSN: 14752859 

BMC 

LONDON 

18 

1 

41 

English 

30808357 

10.1186/s12934-019-1090-4 

WOS:000459926900002 

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062265837&doi=10.1186%2fs12934-019-1090-4&partnerID=40&md5=06c4239b1f6665470ace38f60ac5f64c
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Metabolic engineering has been enabling development of high performance microbial strains for the efficient production of natural and non-natural compounds from renewable non-food biomass. Even though microbial production of various chemicals has successfully been conducted and commercialized, there are still numerous chemicals and materials that await their efficient bio-based production. Aromatic chemicals, which are typically derived from benzene, toluene and xylene in petroleum industry, have been used in large amounts in various industries. Over the last three decades, many metabolically engineered microorganisms have been developed for the bio-based production of aromatic chemicals, many of which are derived from aromatic amino acid pathways. This review highlights the latest metabolic engineering strategies and tools applied to the biosynthesis of aromatic chemicals, many derived from shikimate and aromatic amino acids, including l-phenylalanine, l-tyrosine and l-tryptophan. It is expected that more and more engineered microorganisms capable of efficiently producing aromatic chemicals will be developed toward their industrial-scale production from renewable biomass.