Recent Advances in the Metabolic Engineering of Klebsiella pneumoniae: A Potential Platform Microorganism for Biorefineries

The production of industrial chemicals from renewable biomass resources is a promising solution to overcome the society’s dependence on petroleum and to mitigate the pollution resulting from petroleum processing. Klebsiella pneumoniae is a nutritionally versatile bacterium with numerous native pathways for the production of well-known and industrially important platform chemicals derived from various sugars. Genomic sequence analyses have shown...