Reconstruction of the late enzymatic steps of the yew Taxol biosynthetic pathway in yeast enables the bioproduction of Taxol.
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Courdavault, V., Papon, N. Toward a Taxol-producing microbial cell factory. Nat. Synth 4, 1175–1177 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-025-00801-y
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