Figure 1
From: Improved production of fatty alcohols in cyanobacteria by metabolic engineering
Fatty alcohol biosynthesis pathways. (A) Two different reaction schemes of fatty alcohol biosynthesis. Fatty alcohol could be synthesized via consecutive reduction reactions of a fatty acyl-CoA reductase and a fatty aldehyde reductase or via a single-step reduction of fatty acyl-CoA reductase. (B) Schematic view of fatty alcohol biosynthesis pathways in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (Synechocystis). Solid lines show the native alka(e)ne and free fatty acid biosynthesis pathways in Synechocystis; dashed lines show the constructed fatty alcohol biosynthesis pathways in Synechocystis by knocking out the endogenous sll0208/sll0209 gene and heterologously expressing the fatty acyl-CoA reductase (maqu_2220) from Marinobacter aquaeolei VT8.