Cannabinoids in Yeast | Paper Review

On Oct 23, 2020

A brief overview of a scientific article that came out of UC Berkeley in 2019. The lab developed a metabolic pathway to produce things like THC and CBD in the common baker’s yeast.

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FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES:
KEGG pathway database: https://www.kegg.jp/kegg-bin/search_pathway_text?map=map&keyword=malonyl&mode=1&viewImage=true
Keasling Paper(cough cough… SciHub…cough cough): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30814733/

SOURCES:
Cannabinoids structure: https://www.internetandtechnologylaw.com/cannabis-yeast-cannabinoid-synthesis/
Aspirin: https://www.sermo.com/aspirin-cancer-barking-right-tree/
quinine: http://brinegar-ecuador.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-quinine-tree.html
digoxin: https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-chemistry-of-the-microbiome/3008630.article
farming: https://www.eitfood.eu/blog/post/is-vertical-farming-really-sustainable
industry: https://www.engr.colostate.edu/CBE101/topics/bioreactors.html
cerevisiae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces_cerevisiae
keasling lab: https://openwetware.org/wiki/Keasling_Lab
pichia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pichia_pastoris
yarrowia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrowia

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