TERPENOID

Using synthetic biology methods allows for the more efficient production of highly complex drug molecules compared to traditional chemical methods, with increased stability and controllability. Many drug components are currently produced using expensive and unstable manufacturing methods, such as cultivating medicinal plants, leading to frequent drug shortages. By utilizing highly engineered microorganisms for microbial fermentation, the production of drug components involves multiple complex heterologous biosynthetic steps and the participation of various enzymes. The strategy of discovering drug molecules from microorganisms has led to the identification of a variety of biologically active natural products, including antibiotics such as penicillin, cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin, and immunosuppressant cyclosporine. Many drugs on the FDA's list can be manufactured using bioproduction technologies. If these drug components can enter large-scale, highly engineer