Review of Synthetic Biology – Metabolic Engineering by Huimin Zhao and
An-Ping Zeng (Editors)
Abstract
Synthetic biology is the engineering approach to edit or write the
genome aiming to design the biological devices (promoters, transcription
factors, TFBS, terminators etc.) of an organism to achieve the improved
properties, while, metabolic engineering aiming to engineer the microbes
to produce metabolites on industrial scale through recombinant DNA
technologies. Recently, both synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
fields are growing quickly and are used to produce metabolites of
interest. The main theme of Synthetic Biology – Metabolic Engineering
book is to review the tools and techniques used in synthetic biology and
metabolic engineering to design and engineer the microbes to produce
value-added metabolites and its application in industrial biotechnology.
The book is written by the world-renowned metabolic engineers and
synthetic biologists in series of Advances in Biochemical
Engineering/Biotechnology and primarily elaborates the synergy between
metabolic engineering and synthetic biology.