Cinnamic Acid

Cinnamic Acid

Category
Food and Agriculture

Origins:

Aromatic acid found in plants and plant-derived foods; phenolic compound (Freitas et al., 2024).

Key Features:

Anti-inflammatory properties; derivatives used as alternative plasticizers for PVC films (Freitas et al., 2024; Barandiaran et al., 2023). Hydroxyl and carboxyl groups influence hydrophilic nature.

Sustainability:

Use of renewable resources and waste materials; challenges in scalability and resultant economic viability (Mouren, Pollet and Avérous, 2024).

bio:drive - intelligent microbe design

Here’s what bio:drive says about Cinnamic Acid:

  • Viable pathways recommended / (generated) 2 / (57)
  • Median pathway length 5 biochemical reactions
  • Max free energy change -68.6 KJ.mol-1
  • Max theoretical yield 81.6 %
  • Predicted pathway bottlenecks 1 reactions
  • Enzyme variants recommended / (generated) 5 / (470)
  • Predicted enzyme reactivity improvement 1.6x
  • Predicted host microbe bottlenecks 3 genetic edits
  • Predicted host microbe flux improvement 4.5x
  • Continuous fermentation enabled
  • Number of microbe versions designed for grow:bot build 414,720,000
  • Overall potential improvement with bio:drive 4x
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