Biotechnological domestication of pseudomonads using synthetic biology

PI Nikel, E Martínez-García, V De Lorenzo - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Much of contemporary synthetic biology research relies on the use of bacterial chassis for
plugging-in and plugging-out genetic circuits and new-to-nature functionalities. However …

From dirt to industrial applications: Pseudomonas putida as a synthetic biology chassis for hosting harsh biochemical reactions

PI Nikel, M Chavarria, A Danchin… - Current opinion in chemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•SynBio needs chassis with superior genetic, biochemical, and physiological
traits.•Environmental bacteria are endowed with many advantageous metabolic properties.• …

The drive to life on wet and icy worlds

MJ Russell, LM Barge, R Bhartia, D Bocanegra… - Astrobiology, 2014 - liebertpub.com
This paper presents a reformulation of the submarine alkaline hydrothermal theory for the
emergence of life in response to recent experimental findings. The theory views life, like …

A revised central dogma for the 21st century: All biology is cognitive information processing

WB Miller Jr, F Baluška, AS Reber - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Crick's Central Dogma has been a foundational aspect of 20th century biology,
describing an implicit relationship governing the flow of information in biological systems in …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways to cellular supremacy in biocomputing

L Grozinger, M Amos, TE Gorochowski… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Synthetic biology uses living cells as the substrate for performing human-defined
computations. Many current implementations of cellular computing are based on the …

Understanding carbon catabolite repression in Escherichia coli using quantitative models

A Kremling, J Geiselmann, D Ropers, H de Jong - Trends in microbiology, 2015 - cell.com
Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) controls the order in which different carbon sources are
metabolized. Although this system is one of the paradigms of the regulation of gene …

Metabolic variability in bioprocessing: implications of microbial phenotypic heterogeneity

F Delvigne, Q Zune, AR Lara, W Al-Soud… - Trends in …, 2014 - cell.com
Phenotypic heterogeneity is a major issue in the context of industrial bioprocessing.
Stochasticity of gene expression is usually considered to be the main source of …

Frankenstein or a submarine alkaline vent: who is responsible for abiogenesis? Part 2: as life is now, so it must have been in the beginning

E Branscomb, MJ Russell - BioEssays, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We argued in Part 1 of this series that because all living systems are extremely far‐from‐
equilibrium dynamic confections of matter, they must necessarily be driven to that state by …

[HTML][HTML] Antimicrobials before antibiotics: war, peace, and disinfectants

H Landecker - Palgrave Communications, 2019 - nature.com
This analysis of antimicrobials before antibiotics uses both biological and historical
approaches to examine the origins of contemporary antibiotic resistance in the decades …

[HTML][HTML] Contemporary tools for regulating gene expression in bacteria

R Kent, N Dixon - Trends in biotechnology, 2020 - cell.com
Insights from novel mechanistic paradigms in gene expression control have led to the
development of new gene expression systems for bioproduction, control, and sensing …