
Isoprene
- Category
- Industrial and Speciality Chemicals
Origins:
Volatile organic compound from vegetation and marine ecosystems; traditionally from petroleum sources (Wang et al., 2023; Wennberg et al., 2018; Hrebien, Deschaseaux and Eyre, 2021; Li et al., 2018; Gao et al., 2016).
Key Features:
Used in synthetic rubber, pesticides, medicines, fragrances; influences atmospheric chemistry and climate dynamics (Li et al., 2018; Yao et al., 2018; Wennberg et al., 2018; Wells et al., 2020). Crucial platform chemical; contributes to secondary organic aerosols.
Sustainability:
Biosynthetic production uses renewable resources; although challenges in scaling and economic viability (Yang et al., 2023; Gao et al., 2016; Li et al., 2018).
bio:drive - intelligent microbe design
Here’s what bio:drive says about Isoprene:
- Viable pathways recommended / (generated) 2 / (54)
- Median pathway length 6 biochemical reactions
- Max free energy change -27.9 KJ.mol-1
- Max theoretical yield 82.1 %
- Predicted pathway bottlenecks 4 reactions
- Enzyme variants recommended / (generated) 20 / (7,891)
- Predicted enzyme reactivity improvement 4.1x
- Predicted host microbe bottlenecks 4 genetic edits
- Predicted host microbe flux improvement 7x
- Continuous fermentation enabled
- Number of microbe versions designed for grow:bot build 20,736,000,720
- Overall potential improvement with bio:drive 14x
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