Metabolically engineered cells are yielding an expansion of specialty chemicals that rival or supplement traditional petroleum-derived chemicals. New results establish a biosynthetic route to volatile esters and larger acetate esters equivalent in size to biodiesel, providing an intriguing new direction to create fragrances, chemicals or fuels.
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Barney, B. The sweet smell of biosynthesis. Nat Chem Biol 10, 246–247 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1480
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