Heterologous production of terpenoids
from plants which are of medicinal and industrial
interests is getting much attention. For this purpose
saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most commonly
used host but the yield of terpenoids is much lower.
The main aim of this review is to study the
terpenoid pathways of saccharomyces cerevisiae,
effect of respective host metabolism as well as to
study the effect of different carbon sources in silico
by means of elementary mode analysis. The
production and yield of IPP was main focus point
in order to find out the novel metabolic engineering
strategy for increasing production of terpenoids.
With glucose acting as a substrate, MVA pathway
has low potential to produce terpenoids as
compared to DXP pathway if we consider
formation of precursor. Moreover the carbon
source also has impact on yield with nonfermentable source providing more biomass. At
last several knock out methodologies were being
employed which identified minimal cuts sets for
enhanced growth of terpenoids.