Engineered yeast converts methanol into valuable compound α-farnesene at scale
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The engineered Pichia pastoris screened by comprehensive systems metabolic engineering, adaptive laboratory evolution and mutagenesis methods efficiently produced α-farnesene using methanol as the sole carbon source, with a yield of 3.28 g/L.
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