
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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