
Coumaric Acid
- Category
- Cosmetics and Personal Care, Food and Agriculture
Origins:
Phenolic compound in edible plants; building block for flavonoids and polyphenols; microbial production (Borja et al., 2019; Boo, 2019; Yuan et al., 2020; Li et al., 2018).
Key Features:
Antioxidant, antimelanogenic effects (tyrosinase inhibitor) in cosmetics; precursor for nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals (Boo, 2019; Li et al., 2018; Virklund, Nielsen and Woodley, 2024). Serves as precursor for various industrial compounds.
Sustainability:
Microbial production reduces reliance on plant resources; challenges in yield and economic viability (Virklund, Nielsen and Woodley, 2024; Xue et al., 2014).
bio:drive - intelligent microbe design
Here’s what bio:drive says about Coumaric Acid:
- Viable pathways recommended / (generated) 3 / (1,366)
- Median pathway length 2 biochemical reactions
- Max free energy change -37.8 KJ.mol-1
- Max theoretical yield 81.6 %
- Predicted pathway bottlenecks 2 reactions
- Enzyme variants recommended / (generated) 10 / (2,652)
- Predicted enzyme reactivity improvement 1.6x
- Predicted host microbe bottlenecks 5 genetic edits
- Predicted host microbe flux improvement 14.5x
- Continuous fermentation enabled
- Number of microbe versions designed for grow:bot build 1,658,898,900
- Overall potential improvement with bio:drive 12x
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