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The maintenance of life processes frequently runs counter to our desire to maximize important production metrics, which presents inherent difficulties for metabolic engineering efforts that harness living organisms to produce natural products and other useful chemicals. For commodity chemical manufacturing, where cost is of the utmost importance, these difficulties pose particular difficulties. Problems that are associated with cell-based approaches can be avoided with a cell-free strategy, in which desired enzyme activities are mixed outside of cells to create biochemical pathways. However displacing cell-based strategies for substance creation will require the making of self-supporting, consistently working frameworks where input biomass is changed over into wanted items at exceptional returns, productivities, and titers. Synthetic biochemistry is the study of creating and implementing efficient enzyme systems that can take the place of cellular metabolism.
