Metabolic engineering strategies to enable microbial utilization of C1 feedstocks

W Jiang, D Hernández Villamor, H Peng… - Nature Chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract One-carbon (C1) substrates are preferred feedstocks for the biomanufacturing
industry and have recently gained attention owing to their natural abundance, low …

High-throughput screening technology in industrial biotechnology

W Zeng, L Guo, S Xu, J Chen, J Zhou - Trends in biotechnology, 2020 - cell.com
Based on the development of automatic devices and rapid assay methods, various high-
throughput screening (HTS) strategies have been established for improving the performance …

Growth of E. coli on formate and methanol via the reductive glycine pathway

S Kim, SN Lindner, S Aslan, O Yishai, S Wenk… - Nature chemical …, 2020 - nature.com
Engineering a biotechnological microorganism for growth on one-carbon intermediates,
produced from the abiotic activation of CO2, is a key synthetic biology step towards the …

Converting Escherichia coli to a synthetic methylotroph growing solely on methanol

FYH Chen, HW Jung, CY Tsuei, JC Liao - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Methanol, being electron rich and derivable from methane or CO 2, is a potentially
renewable one-carbon (C1) feedstock for microorganisms. Although the ribulose …

[HTML][HTML] Renewable methanol and formate as microbial feedstocks

CAR Cotton, NJ Claassens, S Benito-Vaquerizo… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•One-carbon compounds can be made from CO 2 to provide renewable microbial
feedstocks.•Methanol and formate have key advantages over gaseous one-carbon …

Generation of an Escherichia coli strain growing on methanol via the ribulose monophosphate cycle

P Keller, MA Reiter, P Kiefer, T Gassler… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Methanol is a liquid with high energy storage capacity that holds promise as an alternative
substrate to replace sugars in the biotechnology industry. It can be produced from CO2 or …

Physiological limitations and opportunities in microbial metabolic engineering

J Montaño López, L Duran, JL Avalos - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic engineering can have a pivotal role in increasing the environmental sustainability
of the transportation and chemical manufacturing sectors. The field has already developed …

Reprogramming methanol utilization pathways to convert Saccharomyces cerevisiae to a synthetic methylotroph

C Zhan, X Li, G Lan, EEK Baidoo, Y Yang, Y Liu… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Methanol, an organic one-carbon (C1) compound, represents an attractive alternative
carbon source for microbial fermentation. Despite considerable advancements in methanol …

Metabolic engineering advances and prospects for amino acid production

VF Wendisch - Metabolic engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Amino acid fermentation is one of the major pillars of industrial biotechnology. The multi-
billion USD amino acid market is rising steadily and is diversifying. Metabolic engineering is …

Constructing a synthetic pathway for acetyl-coenzyme A from one-carbon through enzyme design

X Lu, Y Liu, Y Yang, S Wang, Q Wang, X Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Acetyl-CoA is a fundamental metabolite for all life on Earth, and is also a key starting point
for the biosynthesis of a variety of industrial chemicals and natural products. Here we design …