Patent ID: 8652816

Claim:
A method for producing an acrylic acid-based consumer product, said method comprising the steps of: i) combining a carbon source and a cell culture to produce 3-hydroxypropionic acid, wherein said cell culture comprises a genetically modified Escherichia coli ( E. coli ) microorganism comprising a heterologous nucleic acid encoding for a protein with malonyl-CoA reductase activity; and wherein said genetically modified E. coli microorganism further comprises reduction in activity of pyruvate formate-lyase; ii) growing said cell culture in feed-batch, batch mode, or continuous batch mode production; iii) converting said 3-hydroxypropionic acid to acrylic acid; iv) polymerizing acrylic acid into a polymer of acrylate; and v) processing said polymer of acrylate into a consumer product.