Protein engineering for the synthetic cell factory: Recent advance and perspective

A Guan, Z He, X Wang, ZJ Jia, J Qin - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Synthetic cell factory offers substantial advantages in economically efficient production of
biofuels, chemicals, and pharmaceutical compounds. However, to create a high …

Mobile genetic element-based gene editing and genome engineering: Recent advances and applications

J Hwang, DY Ye, GY Jung, S Jang - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
Genome engineering has revolutionized several scientific fields, ranging from biochemistry
and fundamental research to therapeutic uses and crop development. Diverse engineering …

Massively parallel CRISPR-assisted homologous recombination enables saturation editing of full-length endogenous genes in yeast

L Deng, YL Zhou, Z Cai, J Zhu, Z Li, Z Bao - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Performing saturation editing of chromosomal genes will enable the study of genetic variants
in situ and facilitate protein and cell engineering. However, current in vivo editing of …

Rational evolution for altering the ligand preference of estrogen receptor alpha

R Eerlings, P Gupta, XY Lee, T Nguyen… - Protein …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Estrogen receptor α is commonly used in synthetic biology to control the activity of genome
editing tools. The activating ligands, estrogens, however, interfere with various cellular …

Synthetic auxotrophs accelerate cell factory development through growth-coupled models

L Li, L Yu, X Sun, Q Yuan, X Shen, J Wang - Frontiers of Chemical Science …, 2024 - Springer
The engineering of microbial cell factories for the production of high-value chemicals from
renewable resources presents several challenges, including the optimization of key …

Light-directed evolution of dynamic, multi-state, and computational protein functionalities

V Gligorovski, M Labagnara, SJ Rahi - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Directed evolution is a powerful method in biological engineering. Current approaches draw
on time-invariant selection mechanisms, ideal for evolving steady-state properties such as …

Methods and systems for generating nucleic acid diversity

D Bikard, R Laurenceau, W Rostain - US Patent App. 18/546,024, 2024 - Google Patents
Provided are methods comprising expressing in a recombinant cell a recombinant error-
prone reverse transcriptase (RT) and recombinant spacer RNA comprising a target …

Compositions and methods for metabolic control of a biofermentation process with synthetic metabolic valves

MD Lynch, Z Ye - US Patent App. 18/317,588, 2024 - Google Patents
US20240035052A1 - Compositions and methods for metabolic control of a biofermentation
process with synthetic metabolic valves - Google Patents US20240035052A1 …

Mutagenesis techniques for evolutionary engineering of microbes–exploiting CRISPR-Cas, oligonucleotides, recombinases, and polymerases

A Zimmermann, JE Prieto-Vivas, K Voordeckers… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
The natural process of evolutionary adaptation is often exploited as a powerful tool to obtain
microbes with desirable traits. For industrial microbes, evolutionary engineering is often …