Bioengineered Pathway Boosts Production of Sweet, Low-Calorie Tagatose
TL;DR
Researchers engineered E. coli to produce tagatose by introducing a slime mold Gal1P enzyme, achieving up to 95% yield; tagatose is a rare, naturally occurring sugar about 92% as sweet as sucrose with roughly a third of the calories and no insulin spike, offering a scalable alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners; the study lays a framework for rare-sugar production, with the market expected to reach around $250 million by 2032.
Topics:healthscience#escherichia-coli#metabolic-engineering#rare-sugars#science#slime-mold-enzyme#tagatose
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