P2P: Pentoses to products: a new tool for synthetic biology

Ingenza和诺丁汉大学将设计微生物来利用木糖，并通过发酵将其转化为感兴趣的产品。我们将通过将木糖转化为Lucite International使用可持续生物加工制造单体所需的关键中间体来举例说明这一方法。使用木糖，从废弃的木质纤维生物质中提取，允许使用可持续的原材料通过发酵生产化学品，而不是以任何方式与为食品生产的糖竞争。

Ingenza and the University of Nottingham will engineer microorganisms for the utilisation of xylose and its conversion to products of interest by fermentation. We will exemplify the approach by converting xylose to a key intermediate required by Lucite International for the manufacture of monomers using sustainable bioprocessing. Use of xylose, derived from waste ligoncellulosic biomass, allows the production of chemicals by fermentation using sustainable raw materials whihch in no way compete with sugars produced for food use.