title: Systems metabolic engineering for chemicals and materials.
abstract: Metabolic engineering has contributed significantly to the enhanced production of various value-added and commodity chemicals and materials from renewable resources in the past two decades. Recently, metabolic engineering has been upgraded to the systems level (thus, systems metabolic engineering) by the integrated use of global technologies of systems biology, fine design capabilities of synthetic biology, and rational-random mutagenesis through evolutionary engineering. By systems metabolic engineering, production of natural and unnatural chemicals and materials can be better optimized in a multiplexed way on a genome scale, with reduced time and effort. Here, we review the recent trends in systems metabolic engineering for the production of chemicals and materials by presenting general strategies and showcasing representative examples.
authors.affiliation: Metabolic and Biomolecular Engineering National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (BK21 program), Center for Systems and Synthetic Biotechnology, Institute for the BioCentury, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Korea.
authors.forename: Jeong Wook
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Tae Yong
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yu-Sin
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Jang
authors.forename: Sol
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Sang Yup
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D019149:Bioreactors; D019020:Directed Molecular Evolution; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D058615:Synthetic Biology; D049490:Systems Biology