
Ambrein
- Category
- Cosmetics and Personal Care, Food and Agriculture
Origins:
Component of ambergris from sperm whales; major constituent (Yamabe et al., 2020).
Key Features:
Pharmacological activities; promotes osteoclast differentiation, prevents amyloid β-induced apoptosis (Yamabe et al., 2020). Photooxidative degradation yields odor components of ambergris.
Sustainability:
Synthetic production reduces reliance on natural ambergris; consideration of overall manufacturing sustainability (Peng et al., 2018; Colorado, Velasquez and Monteiro, 2020; Shah et al., 2024; Yamabe et al., 2020).
bio:drive - intelligent microbe design
Here’s what bio:drive says about Ambrein:
- Viable pathways recommended / (generated)
- Median pathway length biochemical reactions
- Max free energy change KJ.mol-1
- Max theoretical yield %
- Predicted pathway bottlenecks reactions
- Enzyme variants recommended / (generated)
- Predicted enzyme reactivity improvement
- Predicted host microbe bottlenecks genetic edits
- Predicted host microbe flux improvement
- Continuous fermentation
- Number of microbe versions designed for grow:bot build
- Overall potential improvement with bio:drive
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