
Retinol (Vitamin A)
- Category
- Cosmetics and Personal Care
Origins:
Essential micronutrient from animal products (retinyl esters) and carotenoids in plants (Carazo et al., 2021).
Key Features:
Maintains vision, immune function, and skin health; involved in gene expression and cellular differentiation; deficiency leads to night blindness (Carazo et al., 2021). Molecular targets include nuclear receptors and opsin in the retina.
Sustainability:
Microbial production offers a more sustainable and efficient alternative; challenges in process optimization and scale-up (Zhang, Yu and Ye, 2024).
bio:drive - intelligent microbe design
Here’s what bio:drive says about Retinol (Vitamin A):
- Viable pathways recommended / (generated) 2 / (2,289)
- Median pathway length 6 biochemical reactions
- Max free energy change -71.7 KJ.mol-1
- Max theoretical yield 18.1 %
- Predicted pathway bottlenecks 1 reactions
- Enzyme variants recommended / (generated) 5 / (4,789)
- Predicted enzyme reactivity improvement 1.9x
- Predicted host microbe bottlenecks 3 genetic edits
- Predicted host microbe flux improvement 4.5x
- Continuous fermentation enabled
- Number of microbe versions designed for grow:bot build 796,262,400
- Overall potential improvement with bio:drive 4x
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