Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications
Open Access

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the biosynthesis of aromatic building blocks

International Congress and Expo on Biofuels & Bioenergy

August 25- 27, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Shuhei Noda, Tomokazu Shirai and Akihiko Kondo

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Fundam Renewable Energy Appl

Abstract :

Recently, chemicals and fuel production from renewable resources, such as biomass resources, have attracted attention due to
global warming and limited amounts of fossil fuels. The aromatic compounds include a huge number of industrially important
materials, and production of them using microorganisms is an active research area, as well as production of biofuel and other
building-block compounds. In the present study, we focused on chorismate derivatives, such as salicylate, p-hydroxbenzoate, and
p-aminobenzoate, production using genetically engineered Escherichia coli. Increasing intracellular accumulation of phosphoenol
pyruvate obtained high productivity of the aromatic compounds by combining several strategies.

Biography :

Dr. Shuhei Noda is currently serving as Special Postdoctoral Researcher, RIKEN, Japan. He received his PhD from Kobe University in 2013. His current research
focused on metabolic engineering of E. coli and non-conventional yeast for chemicals and fuels production.