The microbial food revolution

AE Graham, R Ledesma-Amaro - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Our current food system relies on unsustainable practices, which often fail to provide healthy
diets to a growing population. Therefore, there is an urgent demand for new sustainable …

Biological Properties of Vitamins of the B-Complex, Part 1: Vitamins B1, B2, B3, and B5

M Hrubša, T Siatka, I Nejmanová, M Vopršalová… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review summarizes the current knowledge on essential vitamins B1, B2, B3, and B5.
These B-complex vitamins must be taken from diet, with the exception of vitamin B3, that can …

Harnessing bioengineered microbes as a versatile platform for space nutrition

B Llorente, TC Williams, HD Goold, IS Pretorius… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Human enterprises through the solar system will entail long-duration voyages and habitation
creating challenges in maintaining healthy diets. We discuss consolidating multiple sensory …

Analysis of the cultured meat production system in function of its environmental footprint: current status, gaps and recommendations

MI Rodríguez Escobar, E Cadena, TT Nhu… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cultured meat has been presented as an environmentally friendlier option to conventional
meat, but due to the limited data, the studies related to its performance are scarce and based …

Production of vitamin K by wild-type and engineered microorganisms

MJ Kang, KR Baek, YR Lee, GH Kim, SO Seo - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin that mainly exists as phylloquinone or menaquinone in
nature. Vitamin K plays an important role in blood clotting and bone health in humans. For …

Production of value-added products as Food Ingredients via Microbial Fermentation

A Iram, A Ozcan, I Turhan, A Demirci - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Humankind has been unknowingly utilizing food fermentations since the first creation of
bread, cheese, and other basic foods. Since the beginning of the last century, microbial …

Folic Acid Ionic-Liquids-Based Separation: Extraction and Modelling

AC Blaga, EN Dragoi, A Tucaliuc, L Kloetzer… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Folic acid (vitamin B9) is an essential micronutrient for human health. It can be obtained
using different biological pathways as a competitive option for chemical synthesis, but the …

[HTML][HTML] Design and construction of microbial cell factories based on systems biology

W Yan, Z Cao, M Ding, Y Yuan - Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental sustainability is an increasingly important issue in industry. As an
environmentally friendly and sustainable way, constructing microbial cell factories to …

Nature-inspired Enzyme engineering and sustainable catalysis: biochemical clues from the world of plants and extremophiles

A Chatterjee, S Puri, PK Sharma, PR Deepa… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The use of enzymes to accelerate chemical reactions for the synthesis of industrially
important products is rapidly gaining popularity. Biocatalysis is an environment-friendly …

Designing intracellular compartments for efficient engineered microbial cell factories

R Wang, X Liu, B Lv, W Sun, C Li - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the rapid development of synthetic biology, various kinds of microbial cell factories
(MCFs) have been successfully constructed to produce high-value-added compounds …