Modular and selective biosynthesis of gasoline-range alkanes The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Sheppard, Micah J., Aditya M. Kunjapur, and Kristala L.J. Prather. “Modular and Selective Biosynthesis of Gasoline-Range Alkanes.” Metabolic Engineering 33 (January 2016): 28–40. As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2015.10.010 Publisher Elsevier Version Author's final manuscript Citable link http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108077 Terms of Use Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License Detailed Terms http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 1 Title: Modular and selective biosynthesis of gasoline-range alkanes 2 Authors: Micah J. Sheppard1, 2†, Aditya M. Kunjapur1, 3†, Kristala L. J. Prather1, 3* 3 Affiliations: 4 1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, 5 USA 6 2. Present Address: Ginkgo BioWorks, 27 Drydock Avenue, 8th floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, 7 USA 8 3. Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 9 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 10 11 †These authors contributed equally to this work. 12 * Corresponding author: 13 Department of Chemical Engineering 14 77 Massachusetts Avenue 15 Room E17-504G 16 Cambridge, MA 02139 17 Phone: 617.253.1950 18 Fax: 617.258.5042 19 Email:
[email protected] 20 Keywords: alkanes, gasoline, biofuel, E. coli, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology 21 1 22 Abstract: 23 Typical renewable liquid fuel alternatives to gasoline are not entirely compatible with current 24 infrastructure. We have engineered Escherichia coli to selectively produce alkanes found in gasoline 25 (propane, butane, pentane, heptane, and nonane) from renewable substrates such as glucose or glycerol.