Secondary metabolic pathways, which are turned on in response to specific cues and make natural products, typically make a variety of products. Some pathways make only one or two products, and ...

For example, in plants, specific metabolic pathways can produce glucose and chlorophyll. Metabolic pathways can be described as a series of chemical reactions that start with a substrate and ...

“So, we constructed an optimized metabolic pathway in the bacterium and inserted the genes for a catechol-catabolic enzyme,” he explains. He says this couldn’t have been done without a new ...

Enzymes control metabolic pathways. The enzymes change the substrate at each step in the metabolic pathway in order to get the final product at the end. There are different types of metabolic ...