Curcumin

Curcumin

Category
Cosmetics and Personal Care

Origins:

Curcuminoid from turmeric (Curcuma longa), used in traditional medicine (Ayurveda, Chinese) and culinary applications. (Kotha and Luthria, 2019; El‐Saadony et al., 2023; Sharifi‐Rad et al., 2020).

Key Features:

Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anticancer; manages cancer, depression, diabetes, arthritis, cardiovascular diseases. (Beganovic and Wittmann, 2024; El‐Saadony et al., 2023; Hewlings and Kalman, 2017; Sharifi‐Rad et al., 2020; Filho et al., 2021). Poor solubility and bioavailability, enhanced with piperine. (Hewlings and Kalman, 2017; Xu et al., 2018).

Sustainability:

Microbial synthesis is more sustainable than traditional farming (Beganovic and Wittmann, 2024).

bio:drive - intelligent microbe design

Here’s what bio:drive says about Curcumin:

  • Viable pathways recommended / (generated) 2 / (10)
  • Median pathway length 6 biochemical reactions
  • Max free energy change -87.5 KJ.mol-1
  • Max theoretical yield 22.7 %
  • Predicted pathway bottlenecks 1 reactions
  • Enzyme variants recommended / (generated) 5 / (844)
  • Predicted enzyme reactivity improvement 3.3x
  • 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 1,327,104,000
  • Overall potential improvement with bio:drive 24x
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