Shehbaz Ali

Transcriptional control of bacterial lignin funneling through regulator-ligand grammars and engineering strategies for chemical production.

Lignin is the largest renewable reservoir of aromatic carbon, but its microbial valorization is constrained by the chemical heterogeneity and changing composition of lignin-derived feedstocks. Although numerous aromatic-catabolic pathways and transcription factors have been characterized, their regulatory roles are usu...