Yeast biotechnology: Teaching the old dog new tricks

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Abstract

Yeasts are regarded as the first microorganisms used by humans to process food and alcoholic beverages. The technology developed out of these ancient processes has been the basis for modern industrial biotechnology. Yeast biotechnology has gained great interest again in the last decades. Joining the potentials of genomics, metabolic engineering, systems and synthetic biology enables the production of numerous valuable products of primary and secondary metabolism, technical enzymes and biopharmaceutical proteins. An overview of emerging and established substrates and products of yeast biotechnology is provided and discussed in the light of the recent literature. © 2014 Mattanovich et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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Mattanovich, D., Sauer, M., & Gasser, B. (2014, March 6). Yeast biotechnology: Teaching the old dog new tricks. Microbial Cell Factories. BioMed Central Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2859-13-34

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