Reconstruction of metabolic pathway for isobutanol production in Escherichia coli

The microbial production of useful fuels and chemicals has been widely studied. In several cases, glucose is used as the raw material, and almost all microbes adopt the Embden-Meyerhof (EM) pathway to degrade glucose into compounds of interest. Recently, the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway has been gaining attention as an alternative strategy for microbial production.In the present study, we attempted to apply the ED pathway for isobutanol...