The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to accelerating polyketide synthase engineering for biofuels and bioproducts

In this project, researchers aim to engineer Polyketide synthase for production of commodity and specialty chemicals. PKSs provide the potential to access a massive chemical space of useful small molecules, and produce these from renewable carbon sources. This project is making an array of valuable products including several novel plastic (nylon) monomers with potentially better properties, via the team’s work engineering P. putida to produce PKSs. What’s the latest? JBEI CEO Jay Keasling of the University of California, Berkeley presented these slides at DOE Project Peer Review.