Methods for Producing Designer Esters and Assessing Alcohol Acyltransferase Specificity for Ester Biosynthesis

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17822547

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Methods of microbial screening for identifying alcohol acyltransferases for ester biosynthesis and submodules for ester pathways to produce butyryl-coenzyme A derived esters are disclosed. The method includes the introduction preselected plasmids into a respective host strain to form engineered microbes, in situ fermentation thereof followed by a colorimetric assay for quantification of production of the target ester. In situ fermentation includes inoculating each well of a microplate that have a culture media for producing target esters with one of the engineered microbes, adding an overlay of a solvent to each, and incubating the same. The colorimetric assay includes transfer of a quantity of the overlay from each well to respective clean wells of a new microplate, treatment of each well to form an iron-hydroxamic acid complex aqueous phase, centrifugation of the microplate, and measurement of the absorbance at 520 nm and comparison to a standard curve for the target ester.

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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONTENNESSEE USA

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LEE, Jong-Won Knoxville, US 134 1918
TRINH, Cong T Knoxville, US 3 3

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