Synthetic Biochemistry: The Bio-inspired Cell-Free Approach to Commodity Chemical Production
Received Date: Apr 01, 2022 / Published Date: Apr 19, 2022
Abstract
Metabolic engineering efforts that harness living organisms to produce natural products and other useful chemicals face inherent difficulties because the maintenance of life processes often runs counter to our desire to maximize important production metrics. These challenges are particularly problematic for commodity chemical manufacturing where cost is critical. A cell-free approach, where biochemical pathways are built by mixing desired enzyme activities outside of cells, can obviate problems associated with cell-based methods. Yet supplanting cell-based methods of chemical production will require the creation of self-sustaining, continuously operating systems where input biomass is converted into desired products at high yields, productivities, and titters. We call the field of designing and implementing reliable and efficient enzyme systems that replace cellular metabolism, synthetic biochemistry.
Citation: Smith MS (2022) Synthetic Biochemistry: The Bio-inspired Cell-Free Approach to Commodity Chemical Production. Biochem Physiol 11: 371. Doi: 10.4172/2168-9652.1000371
Copyright: © 2022 Smith MS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricteduse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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