Endogenous type I CRISPR-Cas: from foreign DNA defense to prokaryotic engineering

Y Zheng, J Li, B Wang, J Han, Y Hao… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Establishment of production platforms through prokaryotic engineering in microbial
organisms would be one of the most efficient means for chemicals, protein, and biofuels …

Development and application of CRISPR/Cas in microbial biotechnology

W Ding, Y Zhang, S Shi - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas)
system has been rapidly developed as versatile genomic engineering tools with high …

A compact Cascade–Cas3 system for targeted genome engineering

B Csörgő, LM León, IJ Chau-Ly, A Vasquez-Rifo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas technologies have enabled programmable gene editing in eukaryotes and
prokaryotes. However, the leading Cas9 and Cas12a enzymes are limited in their ability to …

Antisense RNA, the modified CRISPR-Cas9, and metal/metal oxide nanoparticles to inactivate pathogenic bacteria

M Alavi, M Rai - Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2021 - cmbr-journal.com
Finding efficient therapeutic strategies to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a complicated
affair specifically in the therapy of chronic bacterial infections related to hospital-acquired …

Bacterial genome reductions: Tools, applications, and challenges

N LeBlanc, TC Charles - Frontiers in Genome Editing, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial cells are widely used to produce value-added products due to their versatility, ease
of manipulation, and the abundance of genome engineering tools. However, the efficiency of …

Repurposing type I–F CRISPR–Cas system as a transcriptional activation tool in human cells

Y Chen, J Liu, S Zhi, Q Zheng, W Ma, J Huang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Class 2 CRISPR–Cas proteins have been widely developed as genome editing and
transcriptional regulating tools. Class 1 type I CRISPR–Cas constitutes~ 60% of all the …

A plasmid-free Zymomonas mobilis mutant strain reducing reactive oxygen species for efficient bioethanol production using industrial effluent of xylose mother liquor

B Geng, S Liu, Y Chen, Y Wu, Y Wang… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Genome minimization is an effective way for industrial chassis development. In this study,
Zymomonas mobilis ZMNP, a plasmid-free mutant strain of Z. mobilis ZM4 with four native …

Cysteine supplementation enhanced inhibitor tolerance of Zymomonas mobilis for economic lignocellulosic bioethanol production

X Yan, X Wang, Y Yang, Z Wang, H Zhang, Y Li… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inhibitors in lignocellulosic hydrolysates are toxic to Zymomonas mobilis and reduce its
bioethanol production. This study revealed cysteine supplementation enhanced furfural …

CRISPR-based metabolic pathway engineering

D Zhao, X Zhu, H Zhou, N Sun, T Wang, C Bi… - Metabolic …, 2021 - Elsevier
A highly effective metabolic pathway is the key for an efficient cell factory. However, the
engineered homologous or heterologous multi-gene pathway may be unbalanced …

Construction and Characterization of a Gradient Strength Promoter Library for Fine-Tuned Gene Expression in Bacillus licheniformis

Y Rao, P Li, X Xie, J Li, Y Liao, X Ma, D Cai… - ACS Synthetic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bacillus licheniformis DW2 is an important industrial strain for bacitracin production, and it is
also used for biochemical production, however, the lack of effective toolkit for precise …