Engineering the biological conversion of formate into crotonate in Cupriavidus necator.

To advance the sustainability of the biobased economy, our society needs to develop novel bioprocesses based on truly renewable resources. The C1-molecule formate is increasingly proposed as carbon and energy source for microbial fermentations, as it can be efficiently generated electrochemically from CO and renewable energy. Yet, its biotechnological conversion into value-added compounds has been limited to a handful of examples.