Fungi and cancer

A Saftien, J Puschhof, E Elinav - Gut, 2023 - gut.bmj.com
The microbiome may impact cancer development, progression and treatment
responsiveness, but its fungal components remain insufficiently studied in this context. In this …

The Model System Saccharomyces cerevisiae Versus Emerging Non-Model Yeasts for the Production of Biofuels

MP Lacerda, EJ Oh, C Eckert - Life, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microorganisms are effective platforms for the production of a variety of chemicals including
biofuels, commodity chemicals, polymers and other natural products. However, deep cellular …

Engineered Artificial Membraneless Organelles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae To Enhance Chemical Production

P Zhou, H Liu, X Meng, H Zuo, M Qi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial cell factories provide a green and sustainable opportunity to produce value‐added
products from renewable feedstock. However, the leakage of toxic or volatile intermediates …

Exchange of endogenous and heterogeneous yeast terminators in Pichia pastoris to tune mRNA stability and gene expression

Y Ito, G Terai, M Ishigami, N Hashiba… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, terminator sequences not only terminate
transcription but also affect expression levels of the protein-encoded upstream of the …

Design of four small-molecule-inducible systems in the yeast chromosome, applied to optimize terpene biosynthesis

JH Park, MC Bassalo, GM Lin, Y Chen… - ACS synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The optimization of cellular functions often requires the balancing of gene expression, but
the physical construction and screening of alternative designs are costly and time …

Fine-tuning the expression of pathway gene in yeast using a regulatory library formed by fusing a synthetic minimal promoter with different Kozak variants

L Xu, P Liu, Z Dai, F Fan, X Zhang - Microbial Cell Factories, 2021 - Springer
Background Tailoring gene expression to balance metabolic fluxes is critical for the
overproduction of metabolites in yeast hosts, and its implementation requires coordinated …

Reconstruction of the biosynthetic pathway of santalols under control of the GAL regulatory system in yeast

W Zha, T An, T Li, J Zhu, K Gao, Z Sun, W Xu… - ACS Synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sandalwood oil has been widely used in perfumery industries and aromatherapy. Santalols
are its major components. Herein, we attempted to construct santalol-producing yeasts. To …

[HTML][HTML] A roadmap to engineering antiviral natural products synthesis in microbes

J Ma, Y Gu, P Xu - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Natural products continue to be the inspirations for us to discover and acquire new drugs.
The seemingly unstoppable viruses have kept records high to threaten human health and …

[HTML][HTML] Computational structural-based GPCR optimization for user-defined ligand: Implications for the development of biosensors

L Di Rienzo, M Miotto, E Milanetti, G Ruocco - Computational and Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organisms have developed effective mechanisms to sense the external environment.
Human-designed biosensors exploit this natural optimization, where different biological …

Evaluating and engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae promoters for increased amylase expression and bioethanol production from raw starch

MW Myburgh, SH Rose… - FEMS Yeast …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Bioethanol production from starchy biomass via consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) will
benefit from amylolytic Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains that produce high levels of …