Liqiang Fan

Enhanced heparosan biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum by systematic metabolic engineering and translation-level fine-tuning

As a widely used anticoagulant, heparin is industrially produced chiefly via animal tissue extraction, which suffers from unstable supply and potential safety hazards. Heparosan shares a similar polysaccharide backbone with heparin and can be converted into heparin under mild enz...