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Short-chain alcohols, acids, and esters exhibit distinctive toxic effects on E. coli health. Hydrophobicity is a quantitative predictor to evaluate the toxic effect of a metabolite. This study sheds light on degrees of toxicity of fermentative metabolites on microbial health and further helps in the selection of desirable metabolites and hosts for industrial fermentation to overproduce them.
Wilbanks et al. (Fri,) studied this question.