Factors affecting the competitiveness of bacterial fermentation

JA Lee, HU Kim, JG Na, YS Ko, JS Cho, SY Lee - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Sustainable production of chemicals and materials from renewable non-food biomass using
biorefineries has become increasingly important in an effort toward the vision of 'net zero …

[HTML][HTML] Pseudomonas putida as a synthetic biology chassis and a metabolic engineering platform

E Martínez-García, V de Lorenzo - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Pseudomonas putida has consolidated as areliable Synthetic Biology
chassis.•Genome-reduction often enhances performance of P. putida strains.• …

The elements of life: A biocentric tour of the periodic table

KA Remick, JD Helmann - Advances in microbial physiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Living systems are built from a small subset of the atomic elements, including the bulk
macronutrients (C, H, N, O, P, S) and ions (Mg, K, Na, Ca) together with a small but variable …

Structural insights into hydrolytic defluorination of difluoroacetate by microbial fluoroacetate dehalogenases

AN Khusnutdinova, KA Batyrova, G Brown… - The FEBS …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorine forms the strongest single bond to carbon with the highest bond dissociation energy
among natural products. However, fluoroacetate dehalogenases (FADs) have been shown …

[HTML][HTML] Enzymatic synthesis of mono-and trifluorinated alanine enantiomers expands the scope of fluorine biocatalysis

M Nieto-Domínguez, A Sako… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Fluorinated amino acids serve as an entry point for establishing new-to-Nature chemistries
in biological systems, and novel methods are needed for the selective synthesis of these …

[HTML][HTML] Translational efficiency in gas-fermenting bacteria: Adding a new layer of regulation to gene expression in acetogens

A Re - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Major advances in mastering metabolism of single carbon (C 1) gaseous feedstocks in
acetogenic microorganisms are primed to fuel the transition toward environmentally …

In vivo fluorine biocatalysis: Six enzymes in search of a cell factory

PI Nikel, DH Welner, A Cros, DC Volke - Chem Catalysis, 2022 - cell.com
In this Activity article, Pablo I. Nikel, Ditte H. Welner (senior researchers and group leaders),
Antonin Cros (PhD student), Daniel Volke (tenure-track researcher) at the Novo Nordisk …

Meeting report: microbes as safeguards of the environment

JL Ramos, V de Lorenzo, P López - 2024 - academic.oup.com
From 12 to 14 March, a gathering of microbiologists and biotechnologists convened at the
International University of Andalucía (UNIA) in Baeza (Jaén, Spain) under the auspices of …

Synthesis of fluorinated amino acids by low-specificity, promiscuous aldolases coupled to in situ fluorodonor generation

A De Maria, M Nieto-Domínguez… - … Transport and Enzymatic …, 2024 - books.google.com
Synthesis of fluorinated amino acids by low-specificity, promiscuous aldolases coupled to in situ
fluorodonor generation Page 222 CHAPTER NINE Synthesis of fluorinated amino acids by …

[HTML][HTML] 40 years of useful biology

MJ Pavlovich - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
In Isaac Asimov's Forward the Foundation, the great mathematician Hari Seldon attempts to
get his granddaughter's genome sequenced. He meets a biophysicist, who informs him that …