Microbiome and human health: current understanding, engineering, and enabling technologies

N Aggarwal, S Kitano, GRY Puah, S Kittelmann… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The human microbiome is composed of a collection of dynamic microbial communities that
inhabit various anatomical locations in the body. Accordingly, the coevolution of the …

Recent advances in butanol production by acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation

I Veza, MFM Said, ZA Latiff - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2021 - Elsevier
Butanol can be produced from renewable sources via the acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE)
fermentation route to create biobutanol or from fossil fuel to create petrobutanol. Despite the …

A metabolic pathway for bile acid dehydroxylation by the gut microbiome

M Funabashi, TL Grove, M Wang, Y Varma… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The gut microbiota synthesize hundreds of molecules, many of which influence host
physiology. Among the most abundant metabolites are the secondary bile acids deoxycholic …

Application of different types of CRISPR/Cas-based systems in bacteria

Z Liu, H Dong, Y Cui, L Cong, D Zhang - Microbial cell factories, 2020 - Springer
As important genome editing tools, CRISPR/Cas systems, especially those based on type II
Cas9 and type V Cas12a, are widely used in genetic and metabolic engineering of bacteria …

Editing of the Bacillus subtilis genome by the CRISPR-Cas9 system

J Altenbuchner - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated (Cas)
systems are adaptive immune systems of bacteria. A type II CRISPR-Cas9 system from …

Exploiting endogenous CRISPR-Cas system for multiplex genome editing in Clostridium tyrobutyricum and engineer the strain for high-level butanol production

J Zhang, W Zong, W Hong, ZT Zhang, Y Wang - Metabolic engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Although CRISPR-Cas9/Cpf1 have been employed as powerful genome
engineering tools, heterologous CRISPR-Cas9/Cpf1 are often difficult to introduce into …

Advances in industrial biotechnology using CRISPR-Cas systems

PD Donohoue, R Barrangou, AP May - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
The term 'clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats'(CRISPR) has recently
become synonymous with the genome-editing revolution. The RNA-guided endonuclease …

Recent advances and state-of-the-art strategies in strain and process engineering for biobutanol production by Clostridium acetobutylicum

C Xue, J Zhao, L Chen, ST Yang, F Bai - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
Butanol as an advanced biofuel has gained great attention due to its environmental benefits
and superior properties compared to ethanol. However, the cost of biobutanol production via …

CRISPR Cpf1 proteins: structure, function and implications for genome editing

F Safari, K Zare, M Negahdaripour… - Cell & bioscience, 2019 - Springer
CRISPR and CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein, as components of microbial adaptive
immune system, allows biologists to edit genomic DNA in a precise and specific way …

Applications of CRISPR/Cas system to bacterial metabolic engineering

S Cho, J Shin, BK Cho - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated
(CRISPR/Cas) adaptive immune system has been extensively used for gene editing …