Acronym
Ortho-Express
Code
F2019/IOF-ConcepTT/022
Duration
16 April 2019 → 31 December 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Industrial Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Carbohydrates
- Regulation of metabolism
- Synthetic biology
- Genome structure and regulation
- Microbiology not elsewhere classified
- Genetics
- Transcription and translation
- Genomics
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Engineering and technology
- Sustainable and environmental engineering not elsewhere classified
- Bioprocessing, bioproduction and bioproducts
- Fermentation
- Industrial microbiology
- Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Biotechnology
Fermentation
Sustainable Production
Orthogonal Expression System
Yeast
Human Milk Oligosaccharides
Project description
The main goal of this ConcepTT project is the development and patenting of a generic and independent expression system for (heterologous) genes in yeast to improve (industrial) fermentation processes. This system will act independent (orthogonal) to the native regulation system in yeast by decoupling gene expression from metabolic regulation. Validation of the new technology will occur by the production of the human milk oligosaccharide LNnT as case study.