Figure 7.

Comparison of the phosphoketolase engineered pathway with oxidative pentose phosphate pathway. (A) Engineered pathway as described in [17] that routes extracellular glucose through the oxidative pentose phosphate toward 2,3-butanediol production. (B) Engineered pathway as described in this study that routes includes a phosphoketolase bypass toward 2,3-butanediol production. Metabolic reactions and metabolites are indicated by their BiGG identifier (bigg.ucsd.edu). Flux values are in units mmol gram⁻¹ glucose uptake.