Highlights•Isoprenoids are industrially important natural products.•Yeast are key industrial
production vehicles.•New synthetic biology approaches in recent years are reviewed.•Future …

Current yeast metabolic engineering in isoprenoids production mainly focuses on rewiring of
cytosolic metabolic pathway. However, the precursors, cofactors and the enzymes are …

Isoprenoids denote the largest group of chemicals in the plant kingdom and are employed
for a wide range of applications in the food and pharmaceutical industry. In recent years …

Terpenoids, also called isoprenoids, are a large and highly diverse family of natural
products with important medical and industrial properties. However, a limited production of …

Throughout human history, natural products have been the foundation for the discovery and
development of therapeutics used to treat diseases ranging from cardiovascular disease to …

Isoprenoids, often called terpenoids, are the most abundant and highly diverse family of
natural organic compounds. In plants, they play a distinct role in the form of photosynthetic …

Covering: up to the end of 2007 Isoprenoids are ubiquitous in nature and range from
essential cell components to unique secondary metabolites. The two isoprenoid biosynthetic …

Highlights•Metabolic engineering enables the microbial production of many compounds.•
Advances in engineering of yeast for production of valuable isoprenoids and aromatics are …

Microbial production of isoprene from renewable feedstock is a promising alternative to
traditional petroleum-based processes. Currently, efforts to improve isoprenoid production in …

Pathway engineering is to engineer biosynthetic pathways for compounds of interests in
heterologous organisms such as microbes and higher plants, which has also been one of …