... on behalf of the Biochemical Society 2021 Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 cell factory chassis genome engineering metabolic engineering synthetic biology The latest advances in biotechnology and synthetic biology have enabled the production of a vast number of industrially relevant compounds...

... of microbes have attained the acceptance and widespread use that are needed to fulfil the needs of industrial bioproduction. Synthetic biology is setting out to standardise the methods, parts and platform organisms for bioproduction. These platform organisms, or chassis cells, derive from what has been termed...