@article{Pearcy2025-kj,
title = {Adapting OptCouple to identify strategies with increased product yields in community cohorts of E. coli},
author = {Nicole Pearcy and Jamie Twycross},
doi = {10.3390/metabo15050309},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-05-01},
urldate = {2025-05-01},
journal = {Metabolites},
volume = {15},
number = {5},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Microbesas chemical factories provide an alternative
sustainable approach for producing platform chemicals. Until
recently, most efforts have involved engineering heterologous
pathways into a single microbial chassis to maximise its
production of a target chemical. More recently, cohorts of
microbes have been used to engineer microbial communities to
achieve higher yields than achieved in a single chassis.},
keywords = {community microbial designs, guaranteed product yields, multi-directional dependent models, OptCouple},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
BACKGROUND: Microbesas chemical factories provide an alternative
sustainable approach for producing platform chemicals. Until
recently, most efforts have involved engineering heterologous
pathways into a single microbial chassis to maximise its
production of a target chemical. More recently, cohorts of
microbes have been used to engineer microbial communities to
achieve higher yields than achieved in a single chassis.