Unitus DSpace The DSpace digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. http://http://dspace.unitus.it:80 2013-05-24T06:03:46Z 2013-05-24T06:03:46Z Vanillin production using metabolically engineered Escherichia coli under non-growing conditions Barghini, Paolo Di Gioia, Diana Fava, Fabio Ruzzi, Maurizio http://hdl.handle.net/2067/1495 2011-09-26T07:57:58Z 2006-12-31T23:00:00Z Title: Vanillin production using metabolically engineered Escherichia coli under non-growing conditions Authors: Barghini, Paolo; Di Gioia, Diana; Fava, Fabio; Ruzzi, Maurizio Abstract: Vanillin is one of the most important aromatic flavour compounds used in the food and cosmetic industries. Natural vanillin is extracted from vanilla beans and is relatively expensive. Moreover, the consumer demand for natural vanillin highly exceeds the amount of vanillin extracted by plant sources. This has led to the investigation of other routes to obtain this flavour such as the biotechnological production from ferulic acid. Studies concerning the use of engineered recombinant Escherichia coli cells as biocatalysts for vanillin production are described in the literature, but yield optimization and biotransformation conditions have not been investigated in details. 2006-12-31T23:00:00Z