| ACC | acetyl-CoA carboxylase |
| ACP | acyl carrier protein |
| AT | acyltransferase |
| CCR | crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase |
| CCRC | crotonyl-CoA reductase/carboxylase |
| CoA | coenzyme A |
| CRISPR-Cas9 | clustered regularly interspersed palindromic repeats; CRISPR associated (Cas) protein (Cas9) |
| Cryo-EM | cryo-electron microscopy |
| KS | ketosynthase |
| DD | docking domains |
| DEBS | 6-deoxyerythromycin B synthase |
| DH | dehydrogenase |
| ECR | enoyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase |
| ER | enoylreductase |
| KR | ketoreductase |
| NRPS | nonribosomal peptide synthetase |
| PCC | propionyl-CoA carboxylase |
| PKS | polyketide synthase |
| PPTase | 4-phosphopantetheinyl transferase |
| Red/ET | homologous recombination system based on the Red operon of lambda phage or RecE/RecT from Rac phage |
| SNAC | N-acetylcysteamine |
| TAR | transformation-associated recombination |
| TE | thioesterase |
| USER | uracil-excision based cloning |
| YCC | acyl-CoA carboxylase |