Imperial College London

Dr. Patrik R. Jones

Faculty of Natural SciencesDepartment of Life Sciences

Professor of Metabolic Engineering
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5213p.jones

 
 
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Location

 

503Sir Alexander Fleming BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Akhtar:2014:10.3389/fbioe.2014.00030,
author = {Akhtar, MK and Jones, PR},
doi = {10.3389/fbioe.2014.00030},
journal = {Front Bioeng Biotechnol},
pages = {30--30},
title = {Cofactor engineering for enhancing the flux of metabolic pathways.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00030},
volume = {2},
year = {2014}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - The manufacture of a diverse array of chemicals is now possible with biologically engineered strains, an approach that is greatly facilitated by the emergence of synthetic biology. This is principally achieved through pathway engineering in which enzyme activities are coordinated within a genetically amenable host to generate the product of interest. A great deal of attention is typically given to the quantitative levels of the enzymes with little regard to their overall qualitative states. This highly constrained approach fails to consider other factors that may be necessary for enzyme functionality. In particular, enzymes with physically bound cofactors, otherwise known as holoenzymes, require careful evaluation. Herein, we discuss the importance of cofactors for biocatalytic processes and show with empirical examples why the synthesis and integration of cofactors for the formation of holoenzymes warrant a great deal of attention within the context of pathway engineering.
AU - Akhtar,MK
AU - Jones,PR
DO - 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00030
EP - 30
PY - 2014///
SN - 2296-4185
SP - 30
TI - Cofactor engineering for enhancing the flux of metabolic pathways.
T2 - Front Bioeng Biotechnol
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2014.00030
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25221776
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/18592
VL - 2
ER -