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| Title | Microbial cetearyl alcohol for cosmetic & pharmaceutical applications |
| Knowhow is available for | Novel method for the synthesis of cetearyl alcohol using bioengineered E.coli and glucose as a carbon source. |
| Summary | Computational methods were used to identify the 3 gene additions and 8 deletions necessary to engineer E.coli for alcohol production. Under controlled conditions of fed-batch cultivation (with glucose as the carbon source), the engineered strains produced more than 12 g/L of cetearyl alcohol with more than 99% purity.
Demonstrated at lab scale; 5 L fermenter
Patent protected
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| Advantages | The advantages of microbial production of cetearyl alcohol are:
(1) Clean, environmentally safe process without use of harmful chemicals or heavy metals as catalysts.
(2) minimize dependence and risks of price fluctuations related to palm oil trading dynamics
(3) Ease of extraction due to extracellular synthesis of cetearyl alcohol
(4) uniform and consistent high quality ceteraryl alcohol
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Pharmaceuticals, Bulk Drugs, Formulations ; |
