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However, this contrasts to how nature works, where microbial communities rather than single species perform all tasks. In artificial coculture systems, metabolic synergies are rationally designed by carefully selecting and simultaneously growing different microbes, taking advantage of the broader metabolic space offered by the use of multiple organisms. 1-propanol and 2-propanol, as biofuels and precursors for propylene, are interesting target molecules to valorize plant biomass. Some solventogenic Clostridia can naturally produce 2-propanol in the so-called Isopropanol\u2013Butanol\u2013Ethanol (IBE) fermentation, by coupling 2-propanol synthesis to acetate and butyrate reduction into ethanol and 1-butanol. In this work, we hypothesized propanoate would be converted into 1-propanol by the IBE metabolism, while driving at the same time 2-propanol synthesis. We first verified this hypothesis and chose two propionic acid bacteria (PAB) strains as propanoate producers. While consecutive PAB and IBE fermentations only resulted in low propanol titers, coculturing Propionibacterium freudenreichii and Clostridium beijerinckii at various inoculation ratios yielded much higher solvent concentrations, with as much as 21\u00a0g\/l of solvents (58% increase compared to C. beijerinckii monoculture) and 12\u00a0g\/l of propanol (98% increase). 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