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April 16, 2024Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Engineering Redox Cofactor Balance for Improved 5-Methyltetrahydrofolate Production in Escherichia coli

Jinning Yang Yaokang Wu Xueqin Lv Long Liu Jianghua Li Guocheng Du Yanfeng Liu

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Abstract

5-Methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) is the sole active form of folate functioning in the human body and is widely used as a nutraceutical. Unlike the pollution from chemical synthesis, microbial synthesis enables green production of 5-MTHF. In this study,

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Yang et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6ee11b6db643587668a49 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.4c00821

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