Jay Keasling

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

0000-0003-4170-6088

Projects

Structural characterization of polyunsaturated fatty acid synthase in marine microbes

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jay Keasling

Omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) from plants and seafood are imporant dietary fat with a series of benefits to human health. In nature, two major pathways were evolved to…

Identifying and applying design rules to engineer polyketide synthases for production of biofuels and bioproducts

Lead Institution

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jay Keasling

Project type

FICUS Research

Polyketide synthases (PKSs) produce numerous secondary metabolites in soil dwelling bacteria. For over two decades, researchers have known that portions of these enzymes can be recombined to produce…