ATP's role in biomanufacturing: Fluctuating cellular energy drives microbial bioproduction

In the work of biomanufacturing, tanks of microbes are fine-tuned to produce compounds that can be used as carbon-neutral fuels, chemicals, materials and medicines, but researchers are still learning the basics of how to turbo-charge microbes for production. To that end, engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have explored the roles of ATP in microbial metabolism.