
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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