Metabolic engineering: methodologies and applications

MJ Volk, VG Tran, SI Tan, S Mishra, Z Fatma… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metabolic engineering aims to improve the production of economically valuable molecules
through the genetic manipulation of microbial metabolism. While the discipline is a little over …

[PDF][PDF] Engineering cellular metabolism

J Nielsen, JD Keasling - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Metabolic engineering is the science of rewiring the metabolism of cells to enhance
production of native metabolites or to endow cells with the ability to produce new products …

Upcycling CO2 into energy-rich long-chain compounds via electrochemical and metabolic engineering

T Zheng, M Zhang, L Wu, S Guo, X Liu, J Zhao… - Nature Catalysis, 2022 - nature.com
Upcycling of carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added products represents a substantially
untapped opportunity to tackle environmental issues and achieve a circular economy …

[HTML][HTML] Removal of lycopene substrate inhibition enables high carotenoid productivity in Yarrowia lipolytica

Y Ma, N Liu, P Greisen, J Li, K Qiao, S Huang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Substrate inhibition of enzymes can be a major obstacle to the production of valuable
chemicals in engineered microorganisms. Here, we show substrate inhibition of lycopene …

[HTML][HTML] De novo biosynthesis of rubusoside and rebaudiosides in engineered yeasts

Y Xu, X Wang, C Zhang, X Zhou, X Xu, L Han… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
High-sugar diet causes health problems, many of which can be addressed with the use of
sugar substitutes. Rubusoside and rebaudiosides are interesting molecules, considered the …

[HTML][HTML] Rewiring carbon metabolism in yeast for high level production of aromatic chemicals

Q Liu, T Yu, X Li, Y Chen, K Campbell, J Nielsen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The production of bioactive plant compounds using microbial hosts is considered a safe,
cost-competitive and scalable approach to their production. However, microbial production …

Rewriting yeast central carbon metabolism for industrial isoprenoid production

AL Meadows, KM Hawkins, Y Tsegaye, E Antipov… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
A bio-based economy has the potential to provide sustainable substitutes for petroleum-
based products and new chemical building blocks for advanced materials. We previously …

Transforming yeast peroxisomes into microfactories for the efficient production of high-value isoprenoids

S Dusséaux, WT Wajn, Y Liu, C Ignea… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Current approaches for the production of high-value compounds in microorganisms mostly
use the cytosol as a general reaction vessel. However, competing pathways and metabolic …

Yeast systems biology: model organism and cell factory

J Nielsen - Biotechnology journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
For thousands of years, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae) has served as a
cell factory for the production of bread, beer, and wine. In more recent years, this yeast has …

Recent advances in metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: new tools and their applications

J Lian, S Mishra, H Zhao - Metabolic engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Metabolic engineering aims to develop efficient cell factories by rewiring cellular
metabolism. As one of the most commonly used cell factories, Saccharomyces cerevisiae …