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Expanding the terpenoid kingdom

Nature Chemical Biology volume 14, pages 1069–1070 (2018)Cite this article

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Terpenoids are assembled from five-carbon (C5) units, which limits the available scaffold chemical space for the discovery of bioactive molecules. A combination of enzyme and metabolic engineering now enables biosynthesis of a plethora of non-natural C11 terpenoids.

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Fig. 1: Establishing non-natural biosynthesis pathways for C11 terpenoid production in yeast.

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