MTEBIOTECH.COM

Molecular Trait Evolution (MTE), LLC is a biotechnology company that specializes in microbial strain enhancement and optimization. MTE provides project consulting, contractual and fee-for-service strain evolution and engineering. MTE designs natural or synthetic consortia and devises solutions for complex biological systems. Platforms include bacteria (E. coli), archaea (including methane-producing archaea), strict anaerobes, cyanobacteria, and yeast... Using the universal concepts of thermodynamics, enzyme kinetics, and metabolism we can coax living organisms to perform better and more efficiently than they do in nature. MTE provides solutions for using microbes to produce fuel from CO 2 and renewable carbon feedstocks such as excess sugar from corn or other non-food crops, wood, or waste biomass... MTE specializes in growing methanogens, selecting and evolving new traits, genetically engineering methanogens to produce hydrocarbons instead of methane, and manipulating metabolic..

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