Californians engineer microbes to produce methyl halides

Biomass Magazine April 2009
By Susanne Retka Schill

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have published a paper on their work with a bacteria and a yeast that have the potential to become a truly feedstock flexible process producing an intermediate chemical new to the biomass industry. Christopher Voigt, an associate professor in pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF, was the principle investigator for the paper, “Synthesis of Methyl Halides from Biomass Using Engineered Microbes,” published online April 20 by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja809461u

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