Synthetic biology methods

The key technologies involved in their production processes, that is, catalysis, metabolic engineering, and the emerging synthetic biology methods, are highlighted, as they would offer significant opportunities to further decrease the bio-based BDs production costs, which would accelerate the bio-based BDs industrialization. 

Kucherenko, S. SOBOLHDMR a gtaieral-purpose modeling software. In Polizzi, K.M., Kontoravdi, C. (eds.) Synthetic Biology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 1073, pp. 191-224. Humana, Totowa (2013)... 

The use of molecular biology methods, described in Section 5.3 seems to be especially worthwhile as it offers novel possibilities of optimization on process adjustment. Directed evolution leads to the formation of new biocatalysts with improved characteristics (selectivity, activity, stability, etc.). Incorporation ofnon-proteinogenic amino acids makes it possible to reach beyond the repertoire of building blocks used by nature. The prospect of bioconjugate preparation offers the possibility to form functional clusters of enzymes and to perform multiple synthetic steps in one pot. 

HARKER M and HIRSCHBERG J (1998) Molecular biology of carotenoid biosynthesis in photo synthetic organisms . Methods Enzymol, 297, 244-63. 

Naturally occurring phospholipids can be isolated from a variety of sources. One of the most common phospholipid raw materials is egg yolk. However, since the composition of egg phospholipid is from a biological source and can vary considerably depending on age of the eggs, the diet of the chickens, and the method of processing, newer enzymatic and synthetic chemical methods now are being employed to manufacture the required phospholipid derivatives in higher purity and yield. 

In a monograph of this kind it has not been possible, nor indeed is it desirable, to segregate completely synthetic chemical methods from biological action. Such a separation would inevitably lead to a catalogue of entirely unrelated facts. Nevertheless, some effort has been made to concentrate particular aspects of the subject in different sections or chapters but the interrelationships of chemical constitution with biological activity, have always been kept in mind. 

A major reason why synthetic chemists have become interested in biological methods as mentioned above, is that biocatalysis shows selectivity and specificity in catalysis. This interest in turn is mainly due to the need to synthesise enantiopure compounds as chiral building blocks for dmgs and agrochemicals. 

Chiral non-racemic cyclopropanes are a common motif in natural and synthetic biologically active compounds [85]. They represent an important target in asymmetric synthesis, and a range of catalytic methods have been developed for their synthesis [6, 47, 86-90]. Many of the existing methods make use of a chiral metal complex as catalyst [6], but organocatalytic methods have also been developed. In this section we will review methods using a substoichiometric amount of a chiral ylide as a catalyst for cyclopropanation [91]. 

The wide-ranging biological activities exhibited by members of the cembranoid family of marine diterpenes, for example, deoxysarcophine, lophotoxin, sinularin, aseperdiol, and sarcophytol A, in combination with their diversity of structure and the lack of flexible synthetic methodology for the elaboration of 14-ring carbo-cycles, have made this family of natural products a particularly challenging area for the synthetic chemist. Methods that have been developed for macrocyclization in the cembranoid field include... 

The reasons why natural products have not been an area of focus for pesticide company discovery efforts are several. They include the relatively high cost of bioassay-directed isolation, the probability of rediscovery, and the often prohibitively complex structure of the active molecule. Furthermore, the strategies for discovery of natural product-based pesticide discovery are different from those for synthetic compounds, requiring a somewhat different laboratory infrastructure. New methods, including semi-automated bioassays, automated chemical extraction and analysis, and molecular biology methods to... 

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Among these plants, the wastewater rehabilitation plant of the Voronezh synthetic rubber plant (Russia) is worth to mention [2]. Here, two electron accelerators (0.7-1 MeV energy and 50 kW power), can treat up to 2,000 m of wastewater per day with the specific goal to transform the non-biodegradable emulsifier Nekal into a biodegradable form. A further decomposition is achieved with biological methods. 

Synthesis of D liicuronolactone.—n-Glucuronolactone may be prepared from gum arabic or by the biological methods of Quick/ or Williams. A synthetic method, which is however somewhat cumbersome, is that of Zervas and Sessler which involves the oxidation of 1,2-isopropylidene-3,5-benzylidene-D-glucose with alkaline permanganate and subsequent removal of the acetone and benzylidene groups by acid hydrolysis. A simpler synthetic method has been provided by the reviewers and it appears to be of particular value inasmuch as it is a general one. 

The use of biological methods has a small, but significant niche in synthetic heterocyclic chemistry, being used both on a research scale and for fine-chemicals production. The processes may use isolated enzymes or whole microorganisms, the main reactions being oxidations of a heterocyclic nucleus or of side-chains, but other reaction types are also used, for example enzymatic catalysis has been used to ribosylate purines and related bases by reaction with a 7-aUcylated nucleoside.""... 

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