Ludig, Damian L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0042-6322
Zhai, Xiaoxin
Rittner, Alexander
Gusenda, Christian https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9159-0271
Heinz, Maximilian https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1422-4813
Berlage, Svenja https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5400-0356
Gao, Ning
Jervis, Adrian J. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2386-3354
Zhou, Yongjin J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2369-3079
Grininger, Martin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7269-0667
Article History
Received: 18 August 2025
Accepted: 14 November 2025
First Online: 7 January 2026
Competing interests
: D.L.L., A.R., C.G. and M.G. are inventors of the patent application EP25157462 (filed on 12 February 2025) by Goethe University Frankfurt on FAS variants for SMCFA production. X.Z. and Y.J.Z. are inventors of the patent 202510153331.7 (accepted) by Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences on yeast cell engineering for SMCFA production. The other authors declare no competing interests.