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Biological upgrading of 3,6-anhydro-l-galactose from agarose to a new platform chemical

Published:2020 Issue:5 Volume:22 Page:1776-1785
ISSN:1463-9262
Container-title:Green Chemistry
language:en
Short-container-title:Green Chem.

Author:

Kim Dong Hyun¹²³⁴⁵,Liu Jing-Jing⁶⁷⁸⁹,Lee Jae Won⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Pelton Jeffrey G.¹¹¹²¹³⁹,Yun Eun Ju¹²³⁴⁵,Yu Sora¹²³⁴⁵,Jin Yong-Su⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Kim Kyoung Heon¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biotechnology

2. Graduate School

3. Korea University

4. Seoul 02841

5. South Korea

6. Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

7. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8. Urbana

9. USA

10. Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

11. QB3 Institute

12. University of California

13. Berkeley

Abstract

This study demonstrated the novel biological upgrading (using engineered yeast cells) of 3,6-anhydro-l-galactose, the main but untapped sugar of red macroalgal biomass, to 3,6-anhydro-l-galactitol that can be converted to various valuable chemicals including isosorbide.

Funder

National Research Foundation of Korea

National Institutes of Health

Korea University

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Pollution,Environmental Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/GC/C9GC04265B

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