Metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the production of cis, cis-muconic acid from lignin.
Judith BeckerMartin KuhlMichael KohlstedtSören StarckChristoph WittmannPublished in: Microbial cell factories (2018)
Our findings open the door to valorize lignin, the second most abundant polymer on earth, by metabolically engineered C. glutamicum for industrial production of MA and potentially other chemicals.