Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering for Marine Carotenoids: New Opportunities and Future Prospects

Carotenoids are a class of diverse pigments with important biological roles such as light capture and antioxidative activities. Many novel carotenoids have been isolated from marine organisms to date and have shown various utilizations as nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. In this review, we summar...

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Autores principales: Wang, Chonglong, Kim, Jung-Hun, Kim, Seon-Won
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25233369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md12094810
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description Carotenoids are a class of diverse pigments with important biological roles such as light capture and antioxidative activities. Many novel carotenoids have been isolated from marine organisms to date and have shown various utilizations as nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. In this review, we summarize the pathways and enzymes of carotenoid synthesis and discuss various modifications of marine carotenoids. The advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for carotenoid production are also reviewed, in hopes that this review will promote the exploration of marine carotenoid for their utilizations.
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spelling pubmed-41784922014-10-02 Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering for Marine Carotenoids: New Opportunities and Future Prospects Wang, Chonglong Kim, Jung-Hun Kim, Seon-Won Mar Drugs Review Carotenoids are a class of diverse pigments with important biological roles such as light capture and antioxidative activities. Many novel carotenoids have been isolated from marine organisms to date and have shown various utilizations as nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. In this review, we summarize the pathways and enzymes of carotenoid synthesis and discuss various modifications of marine carotenoids. The advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for carotenoid production are also reviewed, in hopes that this review will promote the exploration of marine carotenoid for their utilizations. MDPI 2014-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4178492/ /pubmed/25233369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md12094810 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering for Marine Carotenoids: New Opportunities and Future Prospects
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title_short Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering for Marine Carotenoids: New Opportunities and Future Prospects
title_sort synthetic biology and metabolic engineering for marine carotenoids: new opportunities and future prospects
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4178492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25233369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md12094810
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