The “smart cell industry” program of NEDO (2016-2020) aims to produce industrial materials from plants and microorganisms in economically viable yields based on metabolic engineering and synthetic biology. The five new topics (2019-2020) are
- Microbial production of polyamide materials (Toray)
- Cholesterol esterase derived from recombinant Burkholderia stabilis (Asahi Kasei Pharma)
- Microbial production of ergothioneine, a rare amino acid (Nagase Sangyo)
- Soy sauce koji mold with high content of long-chain ceramide (Fukuoka Soy Sauce Brewing Association)
- Enzyme engineering for production of chemicals with high added value (Amano Enzymes)
NEDO news release, May 7, 2019
