Air-driven aldehyde synthesis in engineered bacteria via gene deletion and aryl-alcohol oxidase profiling
Roman M. Dickey, Joshua Bryan, Vishal Somasundaram, Shelby R. Anderson, Nathan Phan, Aditya M. Kunjapur
This paper engineers Escherichia coli to oxidize non-native alcohols using high-expression aryl-alcohol oxidases, enabling air-driven aldehyde synthesis.
bioRxiv · Jul 13, 2026 · PreprintSynthetic Biology