Metabolic engineering can have a pivotal role in increasing the environmental sustainability
of the transportation and chemical manufacturing sectors. The field has already developed …

While academic‐level studies on metabolic engineering of microorganisms for production of
chemicals and fuels are ever growing, a significantly lower number of such production …

Microorganisms have been rich sources for natural products, some of which have found use
as fuels, commodity chemicals, specialty chemicals, polymers, and drugs, to name a few …

Highlights•Microbial cell factories can be tailored for producing certain 'drop-in'chemicals.•
Metabolic engineering has greatly enhanced the development of microbial cell …

Metabolic engineering aims to improve the production of economically valuable molecules
through the genetic manipulation of microbial metabolism. While the discipline is a little over …

Metabolic engineering allows development of microbial strains efficiently producing
chemicals and materials, but it requires much time, effort, and cost to make the strains …

Metabolic engineering has enabled us to develop strains suitable for their use as microbial
factories of chemicals and materials from renewable sources. It has recently become more …

Recent advances in metabolic engineering enable the production of high-value chemicals
via expressing complex biosynthetic pathways in a single microbial host. However, many …

Good physiological performance of industrial microbes is crucial for successful
bioprocesses. Conventional metabolism-oriented engineering strategies often fail to obtain …

Growing concerns over limited fossil resources and associated environmental problems are
motivating the development of sustainable processes for the production of chemicals, fuels …