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. 2019 Nov 27;7:359. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00359

Table 1.

Maximal yield of glycolic acid as calculated from stoichiometric and thermodynamic rules.

Pathway Yield of GA (mole/mole) References
D-xylose/L-arabinose D-glucose
Glyoxylate shunt (GS) pathway 1.66 2 Deng et al., 2018
Ribulose-1P pathway 1 0 Pereira et al., 2016a
Xylulose-1P pathway 1 0 Cam et al., 2016
Ribulose-1P+ GS pathways 2 2 Pereira et al., 2016a
Xylulose-1P + GS pathways 2 2 Alkim et al., 2016
Dahms-GS-RGP pathway 2 Cabulong et al., 2018
Glycoptimus pathway 2.5 3 This work