2018-08-232018-08-232018-07-03San, Ka-yiu, Bennett, George N. and Wu, Hui, "Metabolic transistor in bacteria." Patent US10011839B2. issued 2018-07-03. Retrieved from <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/102493">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/102493</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/102493The disclosure relates to a metabolic transistor in microbes such as bacteria and yeast where a competitive pathway is introduced to compete with a product pathway for available carbon so as to control the carbon flux in the microbe.23engUtility patentUS10011839B2