
Crocin
- Category
- Industrial and Speciality Chemicals
Origins:
Apocarotenoid from saffron (Crocus sativus) and gardenia fruit; produced by cleavage of carotenoids (Gómez‐Gómez et al., 2023; Hao et al., 2025).
Key Features:
Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-nociceptive; modulates NF-κB pathway; lipid-related benefits (Godugu et al., 2019; Hashemzaei et al., 2020; Yaribeygi et al., 2024; Zhou et al., 2023). High-value apocarotenoid; therapeutic properties.
Sustainability:
Biotechnological methods and use of agricultural waste (gardenia); sustainable extraction methods (Chyau et al., 2022; Gómez‐Gómez et al., 2023).
bio:drive - intelligent microbe design
Here’s what bio:drive says about Crocin:
- Viable pathways recommended / (generated) 2 / (54)
- Median pathway length 6 biochemical reactions
- Max free energy change -22 KJ.mol-1
- Max theoretical yield 19.9 %
- Predicted pathway bottlenecks 3 reactions
- Enzyme variants recommended / (generated) 15 / (249)
- Predicted enzyme reactivity improvement 1.5x
- Predicted host microbe bottlenecks 5 genetic edits
- Predicted host microbe flux improvement 4.5x
- Continuous fermentation enabled
- Number of microbe versions designed for grow:bot build 48,107,520,000
- Overall potential improvement with bio:drive 3x
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