Highlights•Transcription Factors represent a starting material of choice to build new
biosensors.•Evolution and rational design are making advances toward tailor-made …

As a result of anthropogenic activity, large number of recalcitrant aromatic compounds have
been released into the environment. Consequently, microbial communities have adapted …

The quantitative monitoring of intracellular metabolites with in vivo biosensors provides an
efficient means of identifying high-yield strains and observing product accumulation in real …

As one of the branched-chain amino acids, l-valine is an essential nutrient for most
mammalian species. In this study, the l-valine producer Corynebacterium glutamicum …

Background The efficient depolymerization and utilization of lignin are one of the most
important goals for the renewable use of lignocelluloses. The degradation and complete …

We report a microfluidic device for automated sorting and cultivation of chemotactic
microbes from pure cultures or mixtures. The device consists of two parts: in the first part, a …

Phenolic acids including hydroxybenzoic and hydroxycinnamic acids are secondary plant
and fungal metabolites involved in many physiological processes offering health and dietary …

The group of imidazolinone herbicides, widely used for weed control, is hazardous to some
sensitive rotational crops. Thus, rapid elimination of imidazolinones from contaminated soil …

Synthetic biology is rapidly evolving into a new phase that emphasizes real-world
applications such as environmental remediation. Recently, Comamonas testosteroni has …

Micro‐organisms sense and chemotactically respond to aromatic compounds. Although the
existence of chemoreceptors that bind to aromatic attractants and subsequently trigger …